Sweeteners often marketed as natural alternatives may be putting unexpected stress on your liver, according to emerging research on fructose metabolism.

Low testosterone in itself can cause a variety of health problems, but the addition of a poor diet can exacerbate certain ...

Excessive fructose intake, especially from sugary drinks and processed foods—may increase the risk of fatty liver disease, ...

High-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener made from corn starch, is widely found in common foods. Due to its widespread use, the consumption of fructose has increased over the past five decades. “If you ...

A new study explores how decreased testosterone and high fructose intake may interact to influence the development of fatty liver disease.

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers from Washington University investigated how dietary fructose indirectly promotes tumor growth through metabolic mechanisms involving the liver. The ...

Figure 1. Sucrose, which is composed of one glucose and one fructose molecule, is rapidly metabolized to these two sugars upon ingestion. Bottom line The authors of the Nature paper clearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sugar known as fructose could be a kind of rocket fuel for cancer cells, and lowering fructose intake could be one way to ...

Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences and a professor of genetics and of medicine at the School of Medicine, all at WashU. Fructose consumption has ...