Sweeteners affect liver

U.S. scientists discovered the role of fructose as one of the links in the chain of biochemical reactions leading to the increment in weight. Fructose (fruit sugar) found in fruits and honey. It turns out it is fructose, may cause our body to feel hungry when we do not need food. This discovery may explain the obesity epidemic that is raging in many developed countries.

First sweetener increases the level of cholesterol in the blood, then is obesity with metabolic syndrome, and, finally, leads to type two diabetes. Fructose increases the level of uric acid in the blood that blocks the effects of insulin - the primary hormone regulating glucose utilization and accumulation.

Even in rats, known to be resistant to the action of harmful factors, diet enriched with fructose, during the ten weeks, resulting in higher content of uric acid in the blood and the formation insulinorezistentnosti.