Eating normal amounts of table sugar or corn syrup in your food and drinks doesn’t make you more likely to get overweight, diabetes, or heart disease than eating the same number of calories from other carbs like bread or pasta.

Eating a lot of sugary foods and drinks—especially those with fructose like soda and candy—might triple your chance of dying from heart disease, because they can mess up your metabolism and lead to fat buildup in the liver and other problems.

Eating a lot of sugary foods and drinks—especially those with fructose like table sugar or high-fructose corn syrup—may triple your chance of dying from heart disease.

Eating a moderate amount of sugar from foods like fruit or baked goods doesn’t seem to make people gain weight or get metabolic diseases, even if you’re eating other healthy things.

If you get a quarter or more of your daily calories from added sugars—like soda, candy, and pastries—you’re about three times more likely to die from heart disease than someone who gets less than 10% of their calories from sugar.

Lab studies that give people pure fructose or pure glucose don’t reflect what people actually eat — we usually consume sugar as table sugar or corn syrup, which are mixtures, so those lab results don’t apply to real life.