Excessive sugar consumption is increasingly considered as a contributor to the emerging
epidemics of obesity and the associated cardiometabolic disease. Sugar is added to the diet …

Glucose and fructose are closely related simple sugars, but fructose has been associated
more closely with metabolic disease. Until the 1960s, the major dietary source of fructose …

The consumption of fructose as sugar and high-fructose corn syrup has markedly increased
during the past several decades. This trend coincides with the exponential rise of metabolic …

Absorption of monosaccharides is mainly mediated by Na+-d-glucose cotransporter SGLT1
and the facititative transporters GLUT2 and GLUT5. SGLT1 and GLUT2 are relevant for …

Increased sugar consumption is increasingly considered to be a contributor to the worldwide
epidemics of obesity and diabetes and their associated cardiometabolic risks. As a result of …

Increased understanding of fructose metabolism, which begins with uptake via the intestine,
is important because fructose now constitutes a physiologically significant portion of human …

The worldwide epidemics of obesity and diabetes have been linked to increased sugar
consumption in humans. Here, we review fructose and glucose metabolism, as well as …

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) represents the result of hepatic fat overload not
due to alcohol consumption and potentially evolving to advanced fibrosis, cirrhosis, and …

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which can affect any
part of the whole gastrointestinal tract (from mouth to anus). Malnutrition affects 65–75% of …

Abstract Purpose of Review The objective of this review is to provide up-to-date and
comprehensive discussion of tissue-specific fructose metabolism in the context of diabetes …