Overeating linked to fructose consumption

By Marilynn Marchione and Mike Stobbe / The Bulletin
February 7, 2013

This is your brain on sugar — for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating.

After drinking a fructose beverage, the brain doesn’t register the feeling of....

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