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#468: High Sugar Intakes Without Excess Calories: Harmful or Benign?

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The Fatty Liver Effects of High Fructose Corn Syrup

The final paper is one you earmarked, the Johnston and Colleague 2013 paper where we have particularly hone in on the question around fructose. Can you maybe give an overview of why this is a particular useful paper to look at? Yeah, I think because fructose as a monosaccharide, as an isolated single sugar has really been a big focus of a lot of the sugar research generally. There's also some interesting metabolic pathways that fructose is involved in that are relatively unique and that are suggested to explain certain deleterious effects of fructose,. Particularly on triglycerides, upregulation and synthesis and suggested to contribute to liver fat.

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