Cutting out fructose for just nine days — without changing total calories — helped reduce dangerous belly fat in obese kids who usually eat a lot of sugar.

Switching out fructose for starch in the diets of obese kids who eat a lot of sugar can shrink dangerous belly fat in just 9 days—even if they don’t lose weight overall.

Cutting out fructose — like from sugary drinks — might help overweight kids with metabolic problems feel better inside, even if they don’t lose weight, because it’s the sugar itself causing harm, not just the calories.

Cutting out fructose from the diet for just nine days—without changing calories or causing weight loss—can slash the amount of new fat the liver makes in kids who usually eat a lot of sugar.

Cutting back on fructose in sugary foods for just nine days can help clear fat from the liver in obese kids of Latino and African American background—even if they don’t lose weight—by swapping sugar with starchy foods.

Cutting back on fructose for a short time—without changing total calories—can help obese kids' bodies respond better to insulin, which is important for managing blood sugar.