Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. “This is a public health crisis, requiring urgent action,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University. With the evidence, researchers created a comparative risk model and estimated that sugary drinks “cause more than 330,000 annual deaths from …
CNN — Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. Outside factors might be behind the association between low added sugar intake and increased cardiovascular risk, since there are no biological mechanisms to explain it, Janzi said. “Solid sugars are often part of foods that contain other nutrients like fiber, proteins, and fats.” Those nutrients slow digestion, meaning there …
