Fructose, a sugar found in fruit and sweeteners, turns into harmful compounds in your body faster than regular sugar, which can cause swelling and fat buildup in the liver.

Fructose, a type of sugar found in fruit and sweeteners, turns into harmful compounds in your body faster than regular sugar, and these compounds trigger swelling and damage to your blood vessels.

When your body breaks down fructose (a sugar found in fruit and sweeteners), it creates harmful compounds faster than when it breaks down regular sugar. These compounds trigger inflammation and fat buildup in your blood vessels, which can lead to heart disease.

Eating too much fructose (like in sugary drinks) might create more harmful gunk in your body than regular sugar, which can damage your blood vessels and lead to heart disease.

Eating too much fructose—like the sugar in soda and sweetened snacks—might cause stress and swelling in the liver, which can mess up how the body uses insulin and make fatty liver disease worse.

Eating too much fructose, like the sugar in soda and sweet snacks, makes your liver create more fat, which raises bad fats in your blood and causes body-wide inflammation, making heart disease more likely.