martes, 9 de agosto de 2011

Is Sugar Toxic? - NYTimes.com

Is Sugar Toxic? - NYTimes.com

Un excelente artículo sobre las investigaciones científicas acerca de los riesgos del azucar refinada para la salud.
Ojo, no es un manifiesto fanático, es un reportaje del New York Times con declaraciones de científicos serios.

"So the answer to the question of whether sugar is as bad as Lustig claims is that it certainly could be. It very well may be true that sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, because of the unique way in which we metabolize fructose and at the levels we now consume it, cause fat to accumulate in our livers followed by insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, and so trigger the process that leads to heart disease, diabetes and obesity."

"But some researchers will make the case, as Cantley and Thompson do, that if something other than just being fatter is causing insulin resistance to begin with, that’s quite likely the dietary cause of many cancers. If it’s sugar that causes insulin resistance, they say, then the conclusion is hard to avoid that sugar causes cancer — some cancers, at least — radical as this may seem and despite the fact that this suggestion has rarely if ever been voiced before publicly"

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