High-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener made from corn starch, is widely found in common foods. Due to its widespread use, the consumption of fructose has increased over the past five decades. “If you ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers from Washington University investigated how dietary fructose indirectly promotes tumor growth through metabolic mechanisms involving the liver. The ...

Figure 1. Sucrose, which is composed of one glucose and one fructose molecule, is rapidly metabolized to these two sugars upon ingestion. Bottom line The authors of the Nature paper clearly ...

Fructose has steadily been on the rise in Western diets as high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive sweetnener, has become popular. A downside of this fructose boom is that fructose is known to fuel ...

Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences and a professor of genetics and of medicine at the School of Medicine, all at WashU. Fructose consumption has ...

A new study suggests that even modest amounts of this carbonated beverage may be associated with higher rates of metabolic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sugar known as fructose could be a kind of rocket fuel for cancer cells, and lowering fructose intake could be one way to ...