A University of Cincinnati (UC) study provides new evidence that drinking large amounts of beverages containing fructose adds body fat and might explain why sweetening with fructose could be worse than using other sweeteners.
Researchers allowed mice to freely consume either water, fructose-sweetened water or soft drinks. They found increased body fat in the mice that drank the fructose-sweetened water and soft drinks -- despite that fact that these animals decreased the amount of calories they consumed from solid food.