The Relationship Between Sugar And Heart Disease

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Sugar is a part of nearly everyone's daily diet, whether they know it or not. But, could the sweet substance be worse than it seems? Sugar may make you gain weight, but, it also can make your risk for heart disease go up. Even worse, this problem has been blamed on fat for years. In fact, Sugar Industries paid researchers to blame fat for this issue.
In the past 100 years, heart disease has killed nearly 610,000 people every year. The Sugar Association, previously the Sugar Research Foundation had been pushing that it wasn’t the sugar causing all the harm, but the fat, They even went as far as to pay 3 researchers from Harvard a total of 6,500 dollars. Scientists now know the risk of sugar, It can cause high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol,

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