{"id":3600,"date":"2023-04-20T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/sugar-not-a-good-friend\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T00:50:02","slug":"sugar-not-a-good-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/sugar-not-a-good-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar \u2013 Not a Good Friend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Study: No More Than 6 Teaspoons of Added Sugar per Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>JAMA.&nbsp;<\/em>Published online April 19, 2023. doi:10.1001\/jama.2023.6285<\/p>\n<p>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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/381\/bmj-2022-071609.long\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">umbrella review<\/a>&nbsp;of 73 meta-analyses that included 8601 studies, a majority of which were observational.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e recommend reducing the consumption of free sugars or added sugars to below 25 g\/day,\u201d the researchers wrote in&nbsp;<em>The BMJ.&nbsp;<\/em>That translates to about 6 teaspoons daily. The authors also advised limiting sugar-sweetened beverages to less than 1 a week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2804241?guestAccessKey=fb1246e8-a578-44d9-addc-19b859412a6d&amp;utm_source=silverchair&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&amp;utm_content=olf&amp;utm_term=041923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">For complete research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study: No More Than 6 Teaspoons of Added Sugar per Day JAMA.&nbsp;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&nbsp;umbrella review&nbsp;of 73 meta-analyses that included 8601 studies, 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