[HN Gopher] Tumors Have a Taste for Fructose, If It's Transforme...
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       Tumors Have a Taste for Fructose, If It's Transformed by the Liver
        
       Author : fbn79
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2025-04-08 20:20 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | perrygeo wrote:
       | The article implicates high-fructose corn syrup as the enemy.
       | Which is partially true. But table sugar is also 50% fructose.
       | And fruit, juice, honey and "natural" sweeteners are higher. If
       | we're going to try for low fructose (and all the medical evidence
       | say we definitely should), cutting out HFCS is a good start but
       | not sufficient.
       | 
       | From the FDA: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-
       | petitions/high-fruct...
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       | "We are not aware of any evidence ... that there is a difference
       | in safety between foods containing HFCS 42 or HFCS 55 and foods
       | containing similar amounts of other nutritive sweeteners with
       | approximately equal glucose and fructose content, such as
       | sucrose, honey, or other traditional sweeteners."
       | 
       | A better rule of thumb might be "avoid sugar entirely". Like
       | alcohol, the more we learn about it, the more we learn that it's
       | a unambiguous poison at moderate-to-high doses. But fructose
       | being ubiquitous and hidden in food form makes it an even greater
       | danger to public health. In fact, the metabolism of both alcohol
       | and fructose involve similar pathways in the liver. Fructose has
       | been called "Alcohol without the buzz". In 20 years, we'll look
       | at serving a glass of soda or juice to a child like serving them
       | a glass of whiskey.
        
       | jiggawatts wrote:
       | I know it's against HN policy to comment on the layout of a web
       | site, but this is just getting stupid: on a phone there is just a
       | one-line strip visible in between the overlays!
       | 
       | I'm flagging this one because nobody has time for this silliness.
       | Please link to a reputable source that isn't monetised to death.
        
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