Richard Johnson, MD, presents animal studies showing high-sugar diets cause diabetes, fatty liver, hypertension, and visceral fat even without weight gain or extra calories. He argues fructose drives metabolic syndrome and that cutting sugar could reverse it.
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So the animals on the high sugar diet, even though they were on a caloric restriction, they became diabetic, they developed fatty livers shown by the red stain that they, they developed hypertension, they developed hyperlipidemia, and even their visceral composition, they increased their relative fat content, even though their weight didn't go up. So there's. It isn't just about weight gain, it's really about the metabolic effects as well. So when we were doing these studies, it really suggested to us that fructose was the king, that it was going to be the problem that was driving the metabolic syndrome, that it was this high sugar intake that people are have that's driving obesity, and that we should be able to cure the problem by just blocking reducing sugar intake. But I was always worried about things like french fries.