Fructose and cardiometabolic disorders: the controversy will, and must, continue.

The present review updates the current knowledge on the question of whether high fructose consumption is harmful or not and details new findings which further pushes this old debate. Due to large differences in its metabolic handling when compared to glucose, fructose was indeed suggested to be beneficial for the diet of diabetic patients. However its growing industrial use as a sweetener, especially in soft drinks, has focused attention on its potential harmfulness, possibly leading to dyslipidemia, obesity, insulin resistance/metabolic syndrome and even diabetes.

Possible links between intestinal permeability and food processing: A potential therapeutic niche for glutamine.

Increased intestinal permeability is a likely cause of various pathologies, such as allergies and metabolic or even cardiovascular disturbances. Intestinal permeability is found in many severe clinical situations and in common disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome. In these conditions, substances that are normally unable to cross the epithelial barrier gain access to the systemic circulation.

[Memory complaints in 200 subjects meeting the diagnostic criteria for age-associated memory impairment: psychoaffective and cognitive correlates].

We studied 200 subjects recruited by general practioners and meeting the seminal criteria for the age-associated memory impairment construct (AAMI). These criteria did not allow to select an homogeneous population. Three groups could be distinguished.