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A sweetener used in ice cream, soda, cakes and biscuits is fuelling a potentially fatal liver disease in children.
Fructose, it turns out far more damaging to health than glucose
According to scientists, it triggers and an early form of fatty liver diseases in youngsters, something akin to alcoholics, which can lead to cancer, stroke, and heart ailments.
The present study indicates that one in four children are now clinically obese by the time they have become teenagers.
According to the lead author of the study Dr Samir Softic, of Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, the disease is much more worrisome in a child of thirteen who goes from normal liver to fatty liver to liver inflammation over the span of several years.
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