While we thought we had a clear conscience by replacing sugar with fructose, a new study, published in theAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition, alerts us to the harmful effects of this controversial food.
This simple sugar is naturally present in fresh and dried fruits, vegetables, honey, sweet wines, agave or maple syrups, but it is its modified version, present in most products processed with sugar. added, which is implicated.
According to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, fructose is responsible for liver damage. Scientists have conducted tests on the signs. After six weeks of the high fructose diet, the number of liver damage doubled compared to the group of normally fed monkeys.
Indeed, the added sugars promote the exit of bacteria from the intestines into the blood, which seriously damages the liver, the researchers explain.
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The study’s authors focus on the speed at which the liver is damaged, recalling that six weeks in monkeys is equivalent to three months in humans.
This new study is in addition to others, conducted by the same team, during which a link between fructose and certain diseases such as diabetes and obesity was established.
A next study on a comparison between the effects of fructose and glucose over the long term is already scheduled.
