Metabolic effects of fructose as a natural sweetener in the physiologic meals of ambulatory obese patients with type II diabetes

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects, if any, of long term fructose incorporated in the physiologic diabetic diet as a sweetener or glycemic control in obese patients with type II diabetes, secondly, the effects of such dietary manipulation on the serum lipoprotein composition, particularly apoprotein and fructose metabolic products, over 12 weeks