Different sugars, different risks to your liver

If you’re one of the two billion people in the world who are over-weight or obese, or the one billion people with fatty liver disease, your doctor’s first advice is to cut calories—and especially to cut down on concentrated sugars such as high-fructose corn syrup, a sugar found in sweetened beverages and many other processed foods.

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center now have found that mice on a fatty dietwho were given high levels of fructose in their diet suffered much worse metabolic effects than those given similar calories of glucose (the other component in table sugar). The scientists went on to pinpoint biological processes that help to explain the different outcomes.

Although fatty liver disease usually does not progress to dangerous levels of liver inflammation, the condition is an increasing concern as its rates climb in the worldwide obesity epidemic, says Samir Softic, M.D., first author on a paper in the Journal of Clinical Investigation describing the research.

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