A common pollutant and sweetener mess with important hormones
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Inside your body, sugar goes hand-in-hand with a substance called insulin. A type of hormone, insulin regulates the activity of cells and tissues. It calls the shots after you devour that delicious donut, helping organs pluck a type of sugar called glucose from the bloodstream. When insulin is missing or doesn?t do its job, sugar accumulates in the blood instead of getting into and feeding cells. This throws the body?s balance out of whack, causing a disease called diabetes. ?
An organ called the pancreas, near the beginning of the large intestine, produces insulin. The more glucose that tickles the pancreas, the more insulin it produces to process the sugar. But new studies show that other things can inappropriately cause the pancreas to release insulin. And that?s not good. In one study, a sugar called fructose boosted insulin levels; in another, a common pollutant called bisphenol A (BPA) caused the same reaction.
Found in: Science News For Kids
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338893/title/FOR_KIDS_Losing_control_over_sugar
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