STUDIES: FRUCTOSE CAN CAUSE LIVER DAMAGE, LEAKY GUT & OBESITY, ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS CAN CAUSE HIGH BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS, OBESITY & ALTERED G UT FLORA (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by Larimar , Friday, September 19, 2014, 00:50

These studies have shown that hepatic steatosis, a form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease that leads to cirrhosis in some patients, can be caused by fructose consumption.

This same study was published in the AJCN, or the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and discovered that rapid liver damage can be triggered by fructose, even when the remaining factors are equal. This means that someone who is at an average weight can sustain liver damage at an extensive level from consumption of fructose.

This can still happen even if she or he does not become obese from this consumption. Those who consume fructose have a propensity at an exceptional level toward developing diabetes, in accordance with the data that was collected from the study.

The monkeys that were in the fructose-given group, during the period of evaluation, gained approximately 50 percent more weight than the control group. The fructose group also developed diabetes 3x faster than the control group, plus cases of severe hepatic steatosis. These cases were clearly caused by the consumption of fructose.

Fructose Can Cause Gut Leakage
The conclusion was that fructose harmed the livers and also altered the gut's bacterial composition. It was found that fructose caused intestinal microflora leakage from the monkey's intestines, which entered the bloodstream and further damaged the liver up to 30 percent higher. This, of course, was compared to the consumption of next-to-no fructose from the second group.
http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/45441-could-what-s-in-your-cupboard-be-causing-rapid-liver-damage

Study finds artificial sweeteners may promote obesity and raise blood sugar
By shifting the entire ecosystem in your gut, they could do more harm than good. Also video on Aspartame, or Amino Sweet, induced Fibromyalgia.

To explore what was happening they then fed mice saccharin and found a shift in gut bacteria was involved in elevating the blood sugars. In one experiment they transplanted feces from the saccharin-fed mice to germ-free mice, which had no gut bacteria of their own. The transfer elevated blood-sugar levels in the transplanted mice.

Next, seven human volunteers who did not normally consume sweeteners were put on a diet that included the maximum daily intake of saccharin allowed by health authorities — the equivalent of about 40 cans a day of a artificially sweetened cola-type drink.

Within a week four the volunteers developed elevated blood-glucose levels and altered gut bacterial communities similar to those seen in the saccharin-fed mice. Transfer of feces from the affected individuals into germ-free mice, induced elevated blood sugar levels in the mice, which had never consumed artificial sweeteners.
http://www.canada.com/health/Study+finds+artificial+sweeteners+promote+obesity+raise+blood+sugar/10211403/story.html