…is that it is 85% fructose and if you drink jugs of homemade lemon juice sweetened with this sweetener (“it’s natural!”, “it’s healthier”) everyday for a month then you:
-increase total % body fat (26.5% to 29.3%)
-increase visceral/sick fat and likely liver fat as well (VAT area up from 117 to 146 cm2)
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Natural is not necessarily healthy. Check out Episode 14 of vlmd rounds: Confronting the Metabolic F-word–Fructose!