Research offers insight to how fructose causes obesity and other illness

A group of scientists from across the world have provided new insights into how fructose causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, more commonly known as diabetes. Researchers found that fructose can be metabolized by an enzyme that exists in two forms. One form appears to be responsible for causing how fructose causes fatty liver, obesity, and insulin resistance. The other form may actually protect animals from developing these features in response to sugar.