Hacker News with Generative AI: Sugar

Changes in brain's 'sugar shield' could be key to understanding effects of aging (news.stanford.edu)
What if a critical piece of the puzzle of brain aging has been hiding in plain sight? While neuroscience has long focused on proteins and DNA, a team of Stanford researchers dared to shift their gaze to sugars – specifically the complex sugar chains that cover all our cells like chain mail.
Neuroscience, Aging, Biology, Sugar
41 points by dangrossman 4 days ago | 1 comments
Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease (frontiersin.org)
The adverse health effects of sugar-sweetened beverage intake are well-established, but the implications of overall added sugar intake remain unclear.
Health, Nutrition, Cardiovascular Disease, Sugar
151 points by gnabgib 87 days ago | 168 comments
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016) (npr.org)
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Food Industry, Public Health, History, Science, Sugar
188 points by Tomte 131 days ago | 170 comments
Xylitol is linked to health issues (nytimes.com)
Health, Science, Sugar, Food
14 points by bookofjoe 260 days ago | 3 comments
A New Sweetener Has Joined the Ranks of Aspartame and Stevia (theatlantic.com)
Food, Health, Science, Sugar
25 points by kryster 314 days ago | 73 comments
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research (2016) (jamanetwork.com)
Health, Research, Food Industry, Sugar
62 points by t0bia_s 322 days ago | 51 comments