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Eating too much added sugar increases risk of dying with heart disease (2014)
- climatologist 3y ago[flagged]
- mgh2 3y agoControls: > even if you aren't overweight. > regardless of a person's age, sex, physical activity level, and body-mass index (a measure of weight). > or healthy eating habits (fruits & veggies): "Regardless of their Healthy Eating Index scores, people who ate more sugar still had higher cardiovascular mortality,"
- comfypotato 3y agoThis is a big deal. The study concludes that it makes you twice as likely to die from CVD. Normally it’s not a big deal when the chance of death doubles, because it normally starts at a tiny percent, but CVD is one of the leading causes of death!
- psychphysic 3y agoThe controls might be reasonable but if you eat 200g of added sugar a day (not even total sugar) that's insane.
- terribleperson 3y agoI looked up some numbers to check and 200g of sugar is an enormous amount. A dozen Krispy Kreme donuts a day doesn't get you there. The only likely way someone is consuming that much sugar while not being overweight is if they constantly drink soda. Unfortunately, that's a decent chunk of the population - some googling comes up with 5%.
- psychphysic 3y agoYikes. I don't think anyone would consider themselves healthy if they are that much. Research is always important but it's not always interesting...
- psychphysic 3y agoAll this stuff boils down to eat a balanced meal. This compares >25% calories in added sugars to <10%. That's like 600 kcal of added sugar alone. A day. 600 kcal in sugars is 200g of sugar. That's 5 full sized snickers bars or 4 cans of full sugar coke a day. Who are these people!
- xenospn 3y agoWe call them “Americans”.
- technofiend 3y agoDude there are people who knock back 2 liter bottles of coke every day!
- Arrath 3y agoOr more, as a friend of mine once admitted to. He told me he scaled back because his insides hurt.
- ne0flex 3y agoHad a similar thing with my friend. He used to drink Pepsi all the time, now he gets stomach burn if he drinks it.
- m463 3y agoThe television advertisements for coca-cola in mexico always have a (required?) message at the bottom that says "always eat fruits and vegetables"
- psychphysic 3y agoVery true, I bet allot of people consume equivalent "sweetness" amounts of sweetener.
- ericmcer 3y ago60% of Americans get 20% of their daily calories from added sugar. 4 cans of soda a day would be a huge cutback for many people.