Eating a lot of fructose for just one week — even if you're young and healthy — can pack fat into your liver and muscles, raise bad blood fats, and make your body worse at handling sugar.

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Fructose overconsumption causes dyslipidemia and ectopic lipid deposition in healthy subjects with and without a family history of type 2 diabetes.

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2009 Jun

The study gave healthy men a high-fructose diet for one week and found it increased fat in the liver and muscles, raised bad blood fats, and made the liver less responsive to insulin—just like the claim says.

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Fructose overconsumption causes dyslipidemia and ectopic lipid deposition in healthy subjects with and without a family history of type 2 diabetes.

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DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.27336

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