Fructose May Help Bodies Make Fat

Man does not get thin by counting calories alone. Neither, sadly, does woman. Energy metabolism also plays a major role in how many calories end up in the fat drawer. That’s why the results of  a new study of fructose and other sweeteners conducted at the University of Cincinatti are particularly interesting. The study, which is published in the July issue of Obesity Research, allowed mice to drink either water, fructose sweetened water, or soft drinks. It found that those mice drinking fructose sweetened water of soft drinks gained more body fat than other, even thought they decreased they amount of calories consumed in other food. Mice that drank fructose-sweetened water gained 90 percent more fat than those that drank water, and significantly more than those that drank soda.
The Cincinatti Business Courier reports on that study and another,  conducted at the University of California at Davis, that found that hormones involved in the regulation of body weight respond differently to fructose from the way they respond to other carbohydrates. Researchers now suspect that fructose does not trigger the hormonal systems involved in long-term control of food intake and energy metabolism. Read more about the bad news about fructose.