Cardiovascular Protection That Goes Beyond Weight Loss The strongest evidence for this comes from the SELECT trial, which studied patients with preexisting cardiovascular disease and overweight or obesity, but without diabetes
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This helps keep your blood sugar steady and supports weight loss
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The pentose phosphate pathway can also function as an anabolic pathway that utilizes the six carbons of glucose to generate five carbon sugars, particularly ribose-5-phosphate (R5P) that is required for purine and pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthesis