Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sugar known as fructose could be a kind of rocket fuel for cancer cells, and lowering fructose intake could be one way to ...

UC Davis study shows fructose isn't the only bad sugar in high fructose corn syrup. (Getty Images) Consuming high fructose corn syrup appears to be as bad for your health as consuming sugar in the ...

Fructose-- a kind of sugar found in a wide variety of foods and beverages -- may encourage overeating, new research suggests. Fructose may be best known to consumers in the form of high-fructose corn ...

The soaring rates of diabetes in the United States and many other developed countries over the past three decades has been generally blamed on obesity. We're getting fatter, and that puts us at risk ...

High-fructose corn syrup, on its own, isn't bad for you. However, corn syrup is added to a lot of processed food, which boosts the total calorie count. Eating too many calories from sugar is linked to ...

A new study has raised some interesting concerns, revealing that high-fructose corn syrup—a food additive used in many food items we ingest daily—can cause cancer in lab animals. But does this mean ...

High-fructose corn syrup is like “Chicken Man,” a comic radio spoof from years ago. When the segment was introduced each day you would hear, “Chicken Man, Chicken Man, he’s everywhere, he’s everywhere ...

Turn on the TV and there's an ad promoting it, or a different ad promoting its absence. In a grocery store, choose your Raisin Bran with - or proudly without - it. But what exactly is high-fructose ...

"Just make it an unintelligible symbol so we have to resort to saying, 'the substance formerly known as high-fructose corn syrup,'" one caller suggested on a WNYC public radio program about the Corn ...

High-fructose corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn. When corn starch is broken down into individual molecules, it becomes corn syrup, which is 100 percent glucose, a simple sugar. Special ...

Shopping last week in her local New York City grocery store, Elise Mackin, 32, filled her cart with items she knows to be good for her family — whole grains, fruits and veggies — and shied away from ...