Americans eat too much sugar. Obviously! But it might be more complicated than that. Recent science suggests that fructose might be more of a culprit than glucose when it comes to heart disease and even asthma. Could we still eat sweets if we cut back the fructose?

References:

Fructose absorption - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1993
Review article: fructose malabsorption and the bigger picture - Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2006
Comparison of free fructose and glucose to sucrose in the ability to cause fatty liver - European Journal of Nutrition 2010

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