The American Heart Association recommends consuming no more than 6 teaspoons of extra sugar a day. (Anything not found in food naturally... like an apple... this includes all baked or homemade or factory made yummy sweetness things but also stuff like ketchup.) The average American consumes a crazy 22 teaspoons!
Sugar has been linked to high blood pressure. It causes our blood vessels to swell thus constricting the opening and upping our blood pressure. Click here to read an article on that.
I saw this info on Dr Oz last week... but now I can't find it on his website!!! I'll keep looking and post it if/when I find it. But really, we all know that sugar is BAD FOR US! Do we really need to know more than that?
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