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    Eating more than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day linked to cancer, stroke, diabetes, early death

    Eating more than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day linked to cancer, stroke, diabetes, early death

    Experts recommend reducing consumption of added (“free”) sugars to around six teaspoons a day and limiting sugar-sweetened drinks to less than one serving a week after a comprehensive evidence review published by The BMJ. They found significant harmful associations between sugar consumption and 45 outcomes, including asthma, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, depression, some cancers and […] More