New Delhi, November 13 (IANS). Are you also trying to insist on eating less sweets but it is not succeeding, then this news is for you. An international team of scientists has now found that a genetic mutation can enable people to reduce their sugar intake.
Researchers from Denmark, Greenland, Italy and Spain participated in this research led by scientists from the University of Nottingham in Britain. They discovered a gene called the sucrase-isomaltose (SI) gene that may reduce people’s cravings for sweets.
Although excess calories from sugar are one of the biggest causes of obesity and type 2 diabetes, new findings published in the journal Gastroenterology may pave the way for targeting the SI gene to help people stay away from sugar. .
Research has shown that people without the SI gene may have difficulty digesting sweet food, causing them to avoid it. Researchers said this gene is also linked to a common functional disorder called irritable bowel syndrome.
Dr Peter Aldiss, group leader at the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham, said: “Our research shows that genetic variation in our ability to digest dietary sucrose may affect not only how much sucrose we eat, But also how much we love sweet food.”
The team first conducted this experiment on rats. They examined feeding behavior in mice without the SI gene and found that sucrose intake and preference were sharply reduced in such mice.
To confirm the results in humans, the team conducted a study on 6,000 individuals from Greenland and 134,766 individuals from the UK.
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