Sugar-sweetened drinks linked to increased risk of heart disease in men [View all]

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http://newsroom.heart.org/pr/aha/sugar-sweetened-drinks-linked-230144.aspx

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March 12, 2012

[font size=3]Study Highlights:

• Men who drank one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a 20 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to men who did not drink any sugar-sweetened drinks.
• Daily sugar-sweetened drink consumption was also linked to higher levels of harmful lipids in the blood and inflammation.
• Artificially sweetened beverages did not increase heart-disease risk in this study.

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DALLAS, March 12, 2012 — Men who drank a 12-ounce sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a 20 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to men who didn’t drink any sugar-sweetened drinks, according to research published in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal.

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