Here’s how the fructose in your diet contributes to obesity

The observation that mice following the high fructose diet increased villus length, which was made by first author Samuel Taylor, a student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program in Dr. Gonçalves’ lab, was a total surprise. And once he made the discovery, he and Dr Gonçalves set out to learn more. After observing that the villi were longer, the team wanted to determine if these villi functioned differently. So they divided the mice into three groups: a normal low fat diet, a high fat diet, and a high fat diet with added fructose. (Image: istock)

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