The study correlated high-fructose diets with higher blood pressure, fasting glucose, insulin resistance and inflammatory factors that contribute to heart and vascular disease.
Americans suffering mental illnesses were three times as likely to have developed substance dependence or substance abuse disorders than adults who had not experienced mental illness.
The findings of surprised the researchers so much that they held off publishing for nearly two years “because we kept looking for a connection that just wasn’t there.”
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