The Dangers of Sugar

• February 10, 2014  |
• by The Family Cooks

Our friend Dr. Mark Hyman has written an article for The Huffington Post entitled “Eggs Don’t Cause Heart Attacks — Sugar Does.” As he explains:

“A rigorously done new study shows that those with the highest sugar intake had a four-fold increase in their risk of heart attacks compared to those with the lowest intakes. That’s 400 percent! Just one 20-ounce soda increases your risk of a heart attack by about 30 percent.”

And yet more than 70% of the people in this country receive 10% of their daily calories from sugar. And 10% of Americans get 25% of their calories from sugar! Not surprisngly, the biggest culprits are sweetened beverages.

“This is a major paradigm shift. For years, we’ve been brainwashed into thinking that fat causes heart attacks and raises cholesterol, and that sugar is harmless except as a source of empty calories. They are not empty calories. As it turns out, sugar calories are deadly calories. Sugar causes heart attacks, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cancer and dementia, and is the leading cause of liver failure in America.”

Read the full story “Eggs Don’t Cause Heart Attacks — Sugar Does” at The Huffington Post.