fructose effects

More about the association of sugar and heart disease. From the ADA
meeting



" ADA: Cheap Fructose May Exact High Metabolic Price ;Medpage today;
6/26/07"

"CHICAGO, June 25 -- Fructose in sodas and other beverages -- but not
glucose -- can set patients on the fast track to atherosclerosis,
investigators here reported.

These data were presented at a conference and the data and conclusions
should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed
journal.
Overweight men and women assigned to drink fructose-sweetened
beverages as 25% of their energy intake developed atherogenic lipid
profiles in just two weeks, whereas those who drank glucose-sweetened
drinks did not, said Kimber Stanhope, M.S., of the University of
California at Davis, and colleagues.


"Compared with consumption of glucose, 10 weeks of fructose
consumption as 25% of energy requirements promoted the development of
an atherogenic lioproprotein phenotype and glucose intolerance/insulin
resistance in older, overweight and obese men and women," Stanhope
said at the American Diabetes Association meeting"........ the article
further notes

" In addition, patients who took fructose had increases in fasting
plasma concentrations of LDL (up 17% + 4%), Apolipoprotein B (up 28%
7%), small dense LDL (up 27% + 11%), postprandial concentrations of
remnant lipoprotein (up 77% + 19%) and of remnant-like particle
cholesterol (up 53% + 12%; P for each 0.01). None of these
parameters was unchanged in patients who drank glucose.


"These effects appear to be exacerbated when fructose sweetened-
beverages are consumed with a typical ad labium western diet compared
with an energy-balanced moderate fat diet," she said."

I expect this may contribute to the ADA reconsidering thier dietary
advice Thanks Vince
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingC...eeting/tb/6021