(NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently conducted a study revealing that cancer cells have a particular liking for refined fructose. In tests, pancreatic cancer cells quickly fed on refined fructose and used it to divide and proliferate rapidly within the body.
"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," explained Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, one of the authors of the study.
Published in the journal
Cancer Research, the findings also reveal that not all
sugars are the same, a widely held belief in mainstream medicine. Tumor cells love both glucose sugar and
fructose sugar, but fructose directly causes
cancer cells to reproduce and spread in a way that
glucose does not.
"Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different," wrote the team in the study
paper.
So the study solidifies the fact that there is a major difference between
high fructose corn syrup, a highly-refined
sugar commonly used in processed American foods and beverages, and
refined sugar cane. Both can lead to
health problems, but high fructose
corn syrup is worse in terms of
cancer growth.
"I think this paper has a lot of public health implications. Hopefully, at the federal level there will be some effort to step back on the amount of high fructose
corn syrup in our diets," said Dr. Heaney in a statement.
It is already known that the pancreas has to work much harder to metabolize fructose than it does glucose and other sugars, so it makes sense that fructose consumption is implicated more seriously in contributing to
pancreatic cancer growth.
Sources for this story include:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38528161/ns/health-cancer/
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