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.

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The wrong white crystals: not salt but sugar as aetiological in hypertension and cardiometabolic disease

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This study says eating too much sugar—especially in processed foods—hurts your heart and blood pressure more than salt does, which matches the claim that high sugar intake greatly increases the risk of dying from heart disease.

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The wrong white crystals: not salt but sugar as aetiological in hypertension and cardiometabolic disease

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DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2014-000167

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