SFH #19: Sugar by the Numbers 🍭

How sugar is pervasive and insidious 😵

In a study published in 2014 in JAMA Internal Medicine, Dr. Hu and his colleagues found an association between a high-sugar diet and a higher risk of dying from heart disease. Throughout the 15-year study, people who got 17% to 21% of their calories from added sugar had a 38% higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease compared with those who consu…