Put this in the 'I told you so' column.
Diabetes study finds pancreas can ‘taste’ fructose
Keeping blood sugar, and thus insulin levels, controlled is important to both diabetics and those who want to avoid developing the disease. Though Tyrberg stopped short of saying people should eat less fruit, which contains healthy fiber and vitamins, he reiterated the importance of watching out for high fructose corn syrup, which is in sweetened beverages and many processed and packaged foods.
If we look back at what our ancestors ate, fruit was not the problem, and it still isn’t,” he said. “The problem is the combination of fruit layered on top of all the other sugars, hidden and otherwise, in our diet today.”
The finding moves science one step forward in understanding diabetes, and toward developing a drug that may treat it. “These taste receptors are part of a group of proteins that are very favorable to drug development,” said Tyrberg. “We may be able to develop a drug that takes advantage of the impact fructose has on these receptors, and help us find ways to turn them off or on.”
Identifying the taste receptors will also give researchers a new way to study impaired insulin function in those who have diabetes.
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