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For normal-weight women, eating meals sweetened with fructose doesn’t lower hunger hormone levels as much as glucose-sweetened meals, so they might feel hungrier afterward.

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Dietary fructose reduces circulating insulin and leptin, attenuates postprandial suppression of ghrelin, and increases triglycerides in women.

Randomized Controlled Trial
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2004 Jun

The study found that when normal-weight women drank fructose-sweetened drinks with meals, their hunger hormone didn’t go down as much as when they drank glucose-sweetened ones—just like the claim says.

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Dietary fructose reduces circulating insulin and leptin, attenuates postprandial suppression of ghrelin, and increases triglycerides in women.

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DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-031855

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