Obese children's health rapidly improves with sugar reduction unrelated to calories Study indicates that calories are not created equal; sugar and fructose are dangerous
Obese children's health rapidly improves with sugar reduction unrelated to calories Study indicates that calories are not created equal; sugar and fructose are dangerous Reducing consumption of added sugar, even without reducing calories or losing weight, has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, including high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and Touro University California. "This study definitively shows that sugar is metabolically harmful not because of its calories or its effects on weight; rather sugar is metabolically harmful because it's sugar," said lead author Robert Lustig, MD, MSL, pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco. "This internally controlled intervention study is a solid indication that sugar contributes to metabolic syndrome, and is the strongest evidence to date that the negative effec...