High Levels Of Sugar Can Result To Heart Problems

When we have our favorite cake or candy bar we don’t think about the future just how it tastes right then. A new study shows that as we age this indulgence can lead to heart disease.

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.

Adding a half-cent tax on soft drinks could lower the 50 gallon annual consumption to 40 gallons annually.

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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