Researchers at the University of California, Davis wished to determine how the two sugars differed in their effects on overweight individuals' heart health, over a period of 10 weeks. The participants, 32 men and women whose average age was 55, initially lived at the research center for two weeks while the researchers took baseline measurements for each person. During this time, the participants ate a special high complex carbohydrate diet along with either fructose- or glucose-sweetened drinks, which made up 25% of their daily calorie intake. The participants then went back to their normal routines, still drinking the sweetened drinks, for the next six weeks. Finally, the subjects returned to the research center for another two weeks, back on the high-carbohydrate diet, while more measurements were taken.[P]articipants consuming fructose-sweetened beverages showed significant increases in LDL cholesterol, triglyceride levels, blood lipid levels, and intra-abdominal fat...