Many students experience weight gain during their first year of college, which has been attributed to environmental changes, including eating habits and activity patterns. A new study implicates the endogenous metabolite and sugar substitute, erythritol, as a novel physiological marker predictive of vulnerability to increased adiposity.
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S.E.S. is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. J.S. is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Swithers, S., Shearer, J. Sweetener associated with increased adiposity in young adults. Nat Rev Endocrinol 13, 443–444 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2017.71
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