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Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
« on: August 03, 2010, 06:31:53 PM »
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Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.

Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.

They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.

"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.

Now the team hopes to develop a drug that might stop tumor cells from making use of fructose.

U.S. consumption of high fructose corn syrup went up 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990, researchers reported in 2004 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idAFN0210830520100802
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Re: Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2010, 07:37:54 PM »
Our intake went up a 1000%? Scary. I wonder how that correlates with the rise of cancer going up.

It is so hard to find almost anything these days without that in it. :(
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Re: Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2010, 10:43:11 AM »
Eat mo' grits.
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Re: Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2010, 10:48:19 AM »
Quote from: soleil on August 03, 2010, 07:37:54 PM
Our intake went up a 1000%? Scary. I wonder how that correlates with the rise of cancer going up.

It is so hard to find almost anything these days without that in it. :(

You're right. The reason behind using HFCS is because it is cheaper. There's been contention that HFCS does more than just cause an increase in cancers. It has also been linked to the rapid rise in Diabetes, amongst many other maladies.
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Re: Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2010, 08:36:57 PM »
Quote from: Thor on August 04, 2010, 10:48:19 AM
You're right. The reason behind using HFCS is because it is cheaper. There's been contention that HFCS does more than just cause an increase in cancers. It has also been linked to the rapid rise in Diabetes, amongst many other maladies.

I wonder if it has any relation to obesity being so high these days. I know everything is made to be convenient. And it is easy to get caught up in that, but whatever preservatives are used, plus HFCS along with whatever else is put in our food these days, we really need to get back to the basics with our food. Simple. The way it was. The way it probably should be. I am sooooo guilty of using convenient foods. Easy Mac. My baby loves it. But it can't be all that good for her. I don't use those foods too often, but still.
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Re: Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2010, 08:41:40 PM »
It's not just obesity... body fat produces estrogen which is a biological trigger for puberty. 

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/fiona-neill/puberty-blues
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« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2010, 11:47:40 PM »
We try to avoid any and all foods with HFCS in our household.  It's really hard to do so, but it's worth it.  We spend a lot of time reading labels.
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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2010, 11:39:19 AM »
Seems to me that the best way to avoid HFCS is to make foods from scratch....... jams & jellies aren't too tough. Fruit juices are easy, too. It's all of that hidden HFCS that's the tough ones to discern. Who would have thought that they put HFCS in bread & meats??
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2010, 02:36:29 PM »
They put HFCS in EVERYTHING!

I make as much as I can from scratch.  I'd love a large kitchen when we get a house.  Our apartment kitchen is kind of small, not a lot of counter space unfortunately.  I'm going to make peanut butter from scratch soon.  PB is the worst offender with some of the junk in it, but I cannot get enough PB.
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