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Inflammatory Bowel Disease May Be Exacerbated by High-Sugar Diet – Technology Networks
A new study points to sugar – particularly the glucose found in high fructose corn syrup developed by the food industry in the 1960s and then increasingly used…
Mice fed diets high in sugar developed worse colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and researchers examining their large intestines found more of the bacteria that can damage the gut’s protective mucus layer.
~”Colitis is a major public health problem in the U.S. and in other Western countries,” says Hasan Zaki, Ph.D., who led the study that appears in today’s Science Translational Medicine. “This is very important from a public health point of view.”
Colitis can cause persistent…
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