In a recent issue of Cancer Research, a team at the University of California Los Angeles published the results of a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. One of the deadliest can cers is cancer of the pancreas. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose. The cancer cells con sumed both sugars, but they used the fructose to increase greatly in number. Americans consume enor mous amounts of fructose, mainly as high-fructose corn syrup.
