Fructose sugar makes maturing human fat cells fatter, less insulin-sensitive

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 03:50 in Health & Medicine

Fructose, the sugar widely used as high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for the widespread rise in obesity. Now a laboratory study has found that when fructose is present as children's fat cells mature, it makes more of these cells mature into fat cells in belly fat and less able to respond to insulin in both belly fat and fat located below the skin...

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