Recently Published Paper

A paper co-authored by Spherix's President, Dr. Robert A. Lodder, titled "Effect of Diets Containing Sucrose vs. D-tagatose in Hypercholesterolemic Mice," was recently published in the journal Obesity. This paper provides details of a study performed at the University of Kentucky to compare the effect of dietary carbohydrate in the form of sucrose (table sugar) to D-tagatose (Naturlose) in mice genetically engineered with a predisposition to high cholesterol. The results of this study showed that mice fed sucrose became obese, hyperglycemic; and hyperlipidemic; and atherosclerosis was increased in these mice as well. Equivalent substitution of D-tagatose did not result in the same extent of these conditions and showed that D-tagatose did not promote substantial weight gain. The fat cells in tagatose-fed mice were smaller than those in the sucrose-fed mice, and were approximately the same size as the fat cells in the control mice. The results further suggested that, in addition to minimizing the extent of atherosclerosis, a diet enriched in D-tagatose may favor a more stable, less vulnerable plaque phenotype, a plaque that is less like to rupture.

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