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Eat Way Less Added Sugar: Heart Docs

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(Newser) – Americans eat more than twice as much added sugar as doctors recommend, and they should cut back to battle obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease, researchers say. Added calories from processed sugar should total no more than 150 for men and 100 for women, the American Heart Association said today. Soft drinks are the top factor in added dietary sugar, and the recommendations are sure to rile their producers, Reuters reports.

"For the first time we've created specific recommendations about the amount of sugars that can be consumed in a heart-healthy diet," says the lead author of the report. A sugar industry group criticized the research, saying "very few of the cited references by the AHA are directly related to sugars and heart health impacts."

Soft drinks are a major factor contributing to Americans' consumption of dietary sugar.
Soft drinks are a major factor contributing to Americans' consumption of dietary sugar.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Men should eat no more than 150 calories per day from added sugar, and women should keep their total to 100 calories or fewer, the American Heart Association says.
Men should eat no more than 150 calories per day from added sugar, and women should keep their total to 100 calories or fewer, the American Heart Association says.   (©Tom Coates)
Major sources of added sugars in the American diet and usual intake of added sugars, in teaspoons.
Major sources of added sugars in the American diet and usual intake of added sugars, in teaspoons.
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Newser001
Aug 24, 09 5:44 PM CDT
150 calories...? Oosooh... Wait a minute ! Ever notice how some of the stories are in direct correlation to ads (ie; Pre-Crea). Naughty, naughty Newser. Reply
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Aug 24, 09 6:15 PM CDT
Or really good context ad detection on the providers part.
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Aug 25, 09 2:33 AM CDT
I think the ads are region and category specific, not picked by Newser. Mine says, "I cured my acid reflux".
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kansas1946
Aug 24, 09 8:35 PM CDT
Gosh, about time. All those years, Dr. Atkins was begging us to cut back on sugars and simple carbohydrates, and the dietary community was bashing him. All they have done for forty years is cut fat out of foods and replace it with salt and sugar. Maybe now we can get back to some healthy fat in foods and get rid of the added sugar. Reply
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Deebles
Aug 25, 09 12:27 AM CDT
Yeah and Dr Atkins and his healthy heart fell down and had a fatal brain injury. The greatest correlation to health is family history. I'm from that Mad Men era. My mother-French- smoked a couple of packs and never slowed down her wine while pregnant. My great-grandmother was 115 without ever going to a doctor or a dentist. My huge family lives so long that my twenty year old son was the first funeral for my 50 cousins. And he was Bipolar II Depression and killed himself. Sugar? Fuck sugar. I married the genetic weak mental illness. When your future husband mentions that his brother at 21 broke out of the institution and threw himself in front of a truck--well that is more important than sugar. And my husband's other brother's child did the same thing. So look at family and then curtail sugar. Just don't think that that's a huge problem, unless you have a family history of diabetes and weight issues. Everything can be bad, but it is bad to different people in different ways. Reply
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