{"id":7369,"date":"2013-08-19T20:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2013-08-19T20:10:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:10:47","slug":"sugar-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7369","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Kills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When mice ate a diet of 25 percent extra sugar \u2013 the mouse equivalent of a healthy human diet plus three cans of soda daily \u2013 females died at twice the normal rate and males were a quarter less likely to hold territory and reproduce, according to a toxicity test developed at the University of Utah.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our results provide evidence that added sugar consumed at concentrations currently considered safe exerts dramatic adverse impacts on mammalian health,&#8221; the researchers explain.<br \/>\n\u201cI have reduced refined sugar intake and encouraged my family to do the same,\u201d he adds, noting that the new test showed that the 25 percent \u201cadded-sugar\u201d diet \u2013 12.5 percent dextrose (the industrial name for glucose) and 12.5 percent fructose \u2013 was just as harmful to the health of mice as being the inbred offspring of first cousins.<br \/>\nEven though the mice didn\u2019t become obese and showed few metabolic symptoms, the sensitive test showed \u201cthey died more often and tended to have fewer babies,\u201d says the study\u2019s first author, James Ruff, who recently earned his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. \u201cWe have shown that levels of sugar that people typically consume \u2013 and that are considered safe by regulatory agencies \u2013 impair the health of mice.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/sugar-is-toxic-to-mice-in-safe-doses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/sugar-is-toxic-to-mice-in-safe-doses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When mice ate a diet of 25 percent extra sugar \u2013 the mouse equivalent of a healthy human diet plus three cans of soda daily \u2013 females died at twice the normal rate and males were a quarter less likely to hold territory and reproduce, according to a toxicity test developed at the University of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7369\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sugar Kills&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}