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Saturated fats, sugar and metabolic health | Richard Johnson, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Is Saturated Fat a Double-Edged Sword?

There's another study, Richard, that speaks to your point about the combination of saturated fat and fructose possibly being a kind of double-edged sword. The fructose group had an increase in liver fat by 16% saturated fat group by 86%, but then when you combined fructose and saturated fat, it was 133%. Right? I believe that there's enough fructose in the system to really, there might be, there's still probably enoughructose in the system that the saturated fat is just going to drive that fat up in the liver very quickly. And if there's no fructose, it will still drive the fat up, but maybe not as much.

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