Influence of Fructose and Glucose on Serum Lipid Levels in Men and Pre- and Postmenopausal Women

Abstract

Men, young women and postmenopausal women were given fat-free diets containing calcium caseinate and one of three carbohydrate mixtures, either 40 per cent fructose and 60 per cent starch, 40 per cent glucose and 60 per cent starch or 40 per cent fructose and 60 per cent glucose. The results obtained were compatible with the view that dietary fructose increases serum glycerides in men and postmenopausal women. Dietary glucose, when compared with dietary fructose or starch, seems to be associated with an increase in fasting serum phospholipids in men and a decrease in this fraction in pre- and postmenopausal women.