Eating too much fructose over a long time can mess up how your liver responds to insulin, making your body produce more insulin, cause body-wide inflammation, and raise fat levels in your blood—all of which raise your risk of heart disease.
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The study gave rats a lot of fructose (like in sugary drinks) and found it made their livers resistant to insulin, raised fat levels in blood, and caused stress and damage in liver and pancreas — just like the claim says.
This study says that eating too much sugar, especially fructose, can mess up your liver, make your body less responsive to insulin, raise fat levels in your blood, and cause inflammation — all of which increase your risk of heart disease.
High fructose consumption induces cardiac dysfunction and vascular abnormalities.
This study shows that eating too much fructose (like in sugary drinks) harms the heart and blood vessels, and it says this happens because fructose messes up metabolism and causes inflammation—exactly what the claim says leads to heart disease.
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