An article in Renal & Urology News showing again that treatment of uric acid (this time with an agent called pegloticase) is associated with a significant reduction in blood pressure. Read the article here.
Article – Fructose may be the ultimate driver of obesity
An article in Big Think about the new hypothesis accuses the simple sugar of wrecking energy metabolism. Read the article here.
Paper – A New Clue to the Cause of the Mysterious Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease in Central America
Silica Nanoparticles and Mesoamerican Nephropathy: A Case Series An epidemic of kidney disease has ravaged the Pacific coast of Central America, where it typically affects men working in the sugarcane fields as well as local farmers. A role for heat …
Article – The New York Post – This is why you’re fat — study finds possible major root cause of obesity
All-too-common fructose — found in table sugar and high fructose corn syrup, used widely in everyday foods like ketchup — has long been considered a major reason why Americans pack on the pounds. Now, scientists say they’re closer to figuring …
Article – Newsweek – Scientists Reveal a ‘health’ Food That Leads to Weight Gain
A key component of fruit juice may be behind our current obesity epidemic. This common sugar has been shown to flick a metabolic switch in our bodies that increases our hunger, thirst and fat accumulation, as well as insulin resistance, …
Article – Unifying the Different Theories on how Diet Causes Hypertension
While most people think that poor diet is ultimately the cause of the obesity and diabetes epidemics, there remains great debate on what is the critical part of the diet that is responsible. Is it just too many calories in …
Article – Fructose Lurks Within the Obesity Epidemic
It tells about the book Nature Wants Us to Be Fat and how obesity was meant to aid survival but today we are over-activating this “survival switch” to become fat and diabetic. The primary problem is fructose, a sugar that …
Article – Newsweek – Scientists Reveal a ‘Health’ Food That Leads to Weight Gain
“Most of the fructose we have comes from high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar and added sugar, which are made of glucose and fructose,” Richard Johnson, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Newsweek. …
Podcast – The Effect of Fructose on Brain Health with Cynthia Thurlow
The Effect of Fructose on Brain Health with Cynthia Thurlow on her Everyday Wellness Podcast. Sugar (which contains fructose) increases the risk for both behavioral conditions (such as ADHD and bipolar disease) as well as dementia. Learn why! Listen to …