“…It is not quite clear, however, which components of our diet can be held responsible. There is an increasing amount of evidence regarding different effects of various carbohydrates on lipid metabolism [1,2 13-15, 19], in particular of sucrose and fructose on plasma triglycerides [10,18,20,21]. The mechanism for the production of hypertriglyceridemia, however, has not yet been satisfactorily explained.…”