Fructose sugar makes maturing human fat cells fatter, less insulin-sensitive
Fructose, the sugar widely used as high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for the widespread rise in obesity. Now a laboratory study has found that when fructose is present as children’s fat cells mature, it makes more of these cells mature into fat cells in belly fat and less able to respond to insulin in both belly fat and fat located below the skin.
The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego by lead author Georgina Coade, a PhD student at the University of Bristol in the U.K.
"Our results suggest that high levels of fructose, which may result from eating a diet high in fructose, throughout childhood may lead to an increase in visceral [abdominal] obesity, which is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk," Coade said.
Elaine being a diabetic one of the first things they teach you at the diabetic clinc here in Canada is that you should not eat any foods that have anything ending in the words OSE as they are all forms of sugar,,,,did’nt know about the fat cells, I try to keep my sugars under controll with reading labels and watching my diet and my numbers are all good when I take my blood readings…….
I’m not really surprised by the news. Sometimes researchers do the study to scientifically prove something that most people already believe. I think most of us intuitively know the kinds of foods that make us gain weight and those that are healthier. We parents know the kinds of foods that make our kids fatter or healthier, too!
I don’t have the answer, but somehow we as a people need to eat better, eat less, and exercise more. This needs to be an integral part of our culture. Unfortunately, we have a culture of fat.