High Fructose Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Metabolic Health

Exclusion Criteria

• •Use of probiotic/prebiotic/synbiotic supplements
• •Consumption of \> 1 sugar sweetened beverage per day
• •Antibiotics within 3 months prior to enrollment or during intervention
• •Vegetarian, vegan or other restrictive dietary habits
• •Food allergy
• •Alcohol consumption in excess of 2 drink per day
• •Physician diagnosis of a major medical illness (including type 1 or type 2 diabetes) or eating disorder
• •Physical, mental, or cognitive handicaps that prevent participation
• •Chronic use of any medication that may affect body weight or composition, insulin resistance, or lipid profiles;
• •Current smoking (more than 1 cigarette in the past week) or use of other recreational drugs; e) restrictive dietary habits;
• •food allergy;
• •excess alcohol consumption;
• •recent use of pro-, pre- or Synbiotics of receipt of antibiotics within 3 months prior to enrollment or during the intervention;
• •consumption of greater than 1 sugar sweetened beverage per day prior to enrollment