Study: No More Than 6 Teaspoons of Added Sugar per Day

JAMA. Published online April 19, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.6285

Moderate-quality evidence has tied high intake of sugars, particularly those containing fructose, with a range of poor outcomes, such as obesity in children, coronary heart disease, and depression, according to an umbrella review of 73 meta-analyses that included 8601 studies, a majority of which were observational.

Low-quality evidence linked each additional serving of a sugar-sweetened beverage per week with a 4% higher risk of gout. Each extra cup per day of a sugar-sweetened drink was associated with a 17% and a 4% higher risk of coronary heart disease and all-cause mortality, respectively.

“[W]e recommend reducing the consumption of free sugars or added sugars to below 25 g/day,” the researchers wrote in The BMJ. That translates to about 6 teaspoons daily. The authors also advised limiting sugar-sweetened beverages to less than 1 a week.

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Adding menthol flavoring to electronic cigarettes may damage your lungs more than regular e-cigarettes do, a new study reveals.

A number of studies have suggested that e-cigarette vapor can cause lung inflammation, oxidative stress, DNA damage and airway hyper-responsiveness that can trigger asthma, Benam said. Vaping these substances can cause lung damage that impairs lung function. Menthol, he added, is such a toxic substance.

The common mint flavoring helps deliver lots more toxic microparticles, compared with e-cigarette pods that don't contain menthol. It's those microparticles that damage lung function, researchers say.
"Beware of additives in the e-cigarettes, if you vape, they can make you inhale more particles into your lungs. Don‘t assume that since menthol is a substance naturally found in mint plants and added to some food and beverages, it would be fine to inhale…Menthol flavoring leads to a significantly higher number of particle counts that one would take into their lungs by vaping them…E-cigarette aerosols are known to contain many harmful substances, such as nicotine and formaldehyde.”

Associate Professor Kambez Benam, Senior Researcher in the division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine

(Source: Menthol Vapes Could Be Even More Toxic to Lungs (webmd.com))

“A Tipple a day, even of red wine, is not going to make you live longer…and it’s probably better to drinking nothing at all…” The JAMA study found ‘alcohol consumption was associated with a ‘significant increased risk of all-case mortality.’  (The Australian 6/4/23) (Research: JAMA Research
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2802963)

Also see
For Your Health, No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe
Large Alcohol Study Challenges ‘Heart Health’ Claims
WHO: No Level of Alcohol Use Is Safe for our Health
Alcohol, even in moderation, is bad for health: UK study
Studieslinking alcohol to health benefits based on flawed science: research

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