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When too much glucose enters fat cells, they stop making the proteins needed to get and build healthy fats for mitochondria

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Excess dietary carbohydrate affects mitochondrial integrity as observed in brown adipose tissue

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2021 Aug 3

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Excess dietary carbohydrate affects mitochondrial integrity as observed in brown adipose tissue

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DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109488

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When fat cells get too much glucose, they make more short-chain fats and less of a specific healthy fat called linoleic acid

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