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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A sweetener used in food manufacture could be partly to blame for rising rates of type 2 diabetes, say scientists.
Countries that use large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) have higher rates of the disease than those that consume little, says a new study.
Among 42 countries studied, rates of diabetes were 8 per cent in high-consuming nations and 6.7 among low consumers - a difference of 20 per cent.
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, from Oxford University, who co-led the study, said: ?This research suggests that HFCS can increase the risk of type-2 diabetes, which is one of the most common causes of death in the world today.?
HFCS has a greater proportion of fructose sugar than sucrose, which contains an equal amount of glucose.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...gy-drinks-fuelling-diabetes-global-scale.html
Countries that use large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) have higher rates of the disease than those that consume little, says a new study.
Among 42 countries studied, rates of diabetes were 8 per cent in high-consuming nations and 6.7 among low consumers - a difference of 20 per cent.
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, from Oxford University, who co-led the study, said: ?This research suggests that HFCS can increase the risk of type-2 diabetes, which is one of the most common causes of death in the world today.?
HFCS has a greater proportion of fructose sugar than sucrose, which contains an equal amount of glucose.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...gy-drinks-fuelling-diabetes-global-scale.html