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Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: October 27th, 2015, 6:00pm UTC

turp182 writes: As reported in TIME and other news sources, a recent study found that reducing sugar intake in obese children caused several biological health markers to improve over a short period of time (9 days). Summarizing the results: "Overall, their fasting blood sugar levels dropped by 53%, along with the amount of insulin their bodies produced since insulin is normally needed to break down carbohydrates and sugars. Their triglyceride and LDL levels also declined and, most importantly, they showed less fat in their liver." The full study is available online.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Study%3A+Cutting+Sugar+From+Diet+Shows+Immediate+Health+Benefits%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F208Ou4t"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F10%2F27%2F1920222%2Fstudy-cutting-sugar-from-diet-shows-immediate-health-benefits%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/10/27/1920222/study-cutting-sugar-from-diet-shows-immediate-health-benefits?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/10/27/1920222/study-cutting-sugar-from-diet-shows-immediate-health-benefits?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/LFZtRri1DZY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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