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 out fructose for just 9 days—without changing calories or losing weight—can slash the amount of new fat the liver makes by more than half in obese kids.

When kids who are overweight and at risk for heart and liver problems cut out sugary foods with fructose—without eating fewer total calories—their liver fat and harmful fat-making processes go down, and so do certain toxic fat molecules, hinting that all of this is happening because of the same liver problem.

Cutting down on fructose—like from sugary drinks—can help reduce fat in the liver and belly of obese kids, even if they don’t already have a fatty liver. So, any obese kid who eats a lot of sugar might feel better and get healthier by cutting back on fructose.

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—like from sugary drinks—can help overweight kids' bodies work better, even if their liver isn't already fatty. It's not just for kids with liver problems; all heavy kids who eat a lot of sugar might feel better and get healthier by cutting down on fructose.