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Eat Way Less Added Sugar: Heart Docs

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 24, 2009 5:35 PM CDT

(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... Read full story »

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