I read a new study the other day and what I found surprised me. My favorite ice cream and sour patch kid candy can increase my risk of heart disease if I eat them in excess. Indulging in a nightly desert or too many bowls or ice cream is not a good thing to for me to do.
Consuming too many sweets on a nearly daily basis can higher chances of heart disease by lowering Lipoproteins and lowering the good cholesterol levels while raising our triglyceride levels.
Studying adult individuals’ dieting habits allowed the groups to be separated by cholesterol levels and sugar intake. Of these groups sugar intake was the cause of 16 percent of their daily calories. Having 16 percent of your daily calories coming from added sugars is a very high percentage and is bad for you in general.
In a day, 46 teaspoons were the largest amount of the sugar intake, while 3 teaspoons was the lowest amount of sugar intake.
In an average daily diet men should keep processed or added sugar to nine teaspoons while women should keep it to six teaspoons. This does not include naturally found sugars such as those in fruits.
These types of studies show food companies the increased risks of heart disease caused by added sugars. We have already seen taxes added or increased on soft drinks we all consume as a way of helping to decrease our intake and lowering our risk of becoming over weight as well as other health issues it may cause.
On an annual basis the consumption of soft drinks is 50 gallons, adding a half-cent tax is estimated to lower the annual consumption to 40 gallons. The soft drink consumption by children is a big part of childhood obesity, by taxing these drinks parents may think twice before buying their child’s favorite cola.
This study is another way to show us that too much sugar in our daily diets can add to our risks of not only heart disease but diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, and obesity.
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