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Cutting Sugar Made Kids' Bodies Less Sick

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Effects of Isocaloric Fructose Restriction on Ceramide Levels in Children with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk: Relation to Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis and Insulin Sensitivity

doi:10.3390/nu14071432
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Methodology score · 40/100

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Kids who ate less fructose (like soda sugar) for 9 days, while eating the same calories, had less harmful fat in their liver and less of a bad type of fat in their blood called ceramides.

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Olson E, Suh JH, Schwarz JM, Noworolski SM, Jones GM, Barber JR, Erkin-Cakmak A, Mulligan K, Lustig RH, Mietus-Snyder M