The average American eats roughly 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day – more than three times the recommended amount for women and more than double the recommended amount for men.
Although this overconsumption is known to contribute to Type 2 diabetes and other disorders, the exact ways in which eating too much sugar sets the stage for metabolic diseases on a cellular level has been less clear. Now, a team led by Van Andel Institute scientists has found that surplus sugar may cause our cellular powerplants – mitochondria – to become less efficient, reducing their energy ouput.
The findings, published today in Cell Reports, highlight the cellular implications of excessive sugar consumption and provide an important new model to study the initial metabolic events that may contribute ...
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