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Fructose-sweetened drinks may
increase risk for cardiovascular disease
Source of Article: http://www.ift.org/news_bin/news/news_home.shtml
2/17/2009-A study conducted by researchers
at the Monell
Chemical Senses
Center shows obese
people who drink fructose-sweetened beverages with their meals may have
increased levels of triglycerides following the meal. Triglycerides are
manufactured by the body from dietary fat and are the most common form of fat
transported in blood. Although normal levels of triglycerides are essential
for good health, high levels are associated with increased risk for
atherosclerosis and other predictors of cardiovascular disease.
For the study, the researchers had 17 obese men and women admitted twice
to the Clinical and Translational Research Center
at the Univ. of
Pennsylvania. On each
admission, the subjects were given identical meals and blood was collected
from an intravenous catheter over a 24-hr period. The only difference was the
sweetener used in the beverages that accompanies the meals; they were
sweetened with glucose during one admission and with fructose during the
other. The researchers found that blood triglyceride levels were almost 200%
higher when the subjects drank fructose-sweetened beverages than when they
drank glucose-sweetened beverages. In addition, this effect was especially
pronounced in insulin-resistant subjects, who already had increased
triglyceride levels.
The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Abstract
Monell release
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