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Posted on May 21, 2011 7:18 AM by Dr. Jo in Heart Disease | 0 Comments
By Guest author Steve Kelly
They taste sweet, but there’s a darker side to sugar-sweetened beverages such as soft drinks. They may increase the risk of the number one killer of Americans – heart disease.
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Heart Disease: The Dangers of Too Many Soft Drinks
According to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, soft drinks are bad for the heart. When researchers looked at the beverage sipping habits of almost 89,000 middle-aged women using questionnaires, they found that drinking two or more sugar-sweetened drinks boosted heart disease risk in these women by … Read the rest