Fructose consumption contributes to elevated glucose, elevated blood pressure, elevated waist circumference, elevated triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol.

“all these things you're talking about with fructose seem to fit almost directly into the five characteristics of metabolic syndrome which are elevated glucose so that insulin resistance would be manifested as an elevated glucose elevated blood pressure elevated waste circumference so storage of fat elevated triglycerides what you just said and the only one we didn't address is low hdl cholesterol which is the fifth finding”