Eating too many sugary drinks, desserts and sweets could increase your risk of having a heart attack, findings of a large US study suggest.
In the study, which looked at data on sugar consumption among tens of thousands of people in the US as well as death rates from heart-related problems found that there was a significant link between the amount of sugar consumed and heart risk, according to BBC Health.
Consuming the equivalent of a can a day of sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks was associated with an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, JAMA Internal Medicine reports.
People who got a quarter of their daily calories from added sugar had more than three times the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than people who consumed far less sugar, found Dr Quanhe Yang and colleagues at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Different forms of sugar are added to a wide range of foods, such as sweets, cakes, biscuits, chocolate, and some fizzy drinks and juice drinks.
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