Take a closer look at how sugar can mess with your health, from head to toe:
Harvard Medical School: “The sweet danger of sugar,” ‘Eating too much added sugar increases the risk of dying with heart disease,” “Abundance of fructose not good for the liver, heart.”Harvard School of Public Health: “Added Sugar in the Diet,” “Soft Drinks and Disease.”: “The wrong white crystals: not salt but sugar as aetiological in hypertension and cardiometabolic disease.”
Cleveland Clinic: “Why a Sweet Tooth Spells Trouble for Your Heart,” How Strong Is the Link Between Inflammation and Depression?Minnesota Dental Association: “Pucker Up! The Effects of Sour Candy on Oral Health.”National Institutes of Health/Medline Plus: Causes of ADHD: “Sugar intake from sweet food and beverages, common mental disorder and depression: Prospective findings from the Whitehall II study.”Arthritis Foundation: “8 Food Ingredients That Can Cause Inflammation,” “Fructose and Gout.
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