{"id":1438,"date":"2014-02-08T09:14:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T09:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.protrainings.eu\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2014-02-08T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T09:14:30","slug":"eating-too-many-sugary-drinks-desserts-and-sweets-could-increase-your-risk-of-having-a-heart-attack-the-findings-of-a-large-us-study-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protrainings.uk\/blog\/eating-too-many-sugary-drinks-desserts-and-sweets-could-increase-your-risk-of-having-a-heart-attack-the-findings-of-a-large-us-study-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating too many sugary drinks, desserts and sweets could increase your risk of having a heart attack, the findings of a large US study suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming the equivalent of a can a day of sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks was associated with an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, JAMA Internal Medicine reports. \u00a0Most adults and children in the US and the UK eat too much sugar and sugars are added to a wide range of foods, such as sweets, cakes, biscuits, chocolate, and some fizzy drinks and juice drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar can lead to weight gain, which is bad for your heart. \u00a0Experts said people needed to be aware of this risk.In the study, which looked at data on sugar consumption among tens of thousands of people in the US as well as death rates from heart-related problems, there was a significant link between the amount of sugar consumed and heart risk.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-26020017\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming the equivalent of a can a day of sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks was associated with an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, JAMA Internal Medicine reports. \u00a0Most adults and children in the US and the UK eat too much sugar and sugars are added to a wide range of foods, such as sweets, cakes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13,14,9],"tags":[472,473,474,475,34,476,477,331,478,479,480,481,482],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-50-plus-first-aid","category-first-aid","category-first-aid-at-work","category-online-learning","category-protrainings-eu","tag-desserts","tag-eating","tag-findings","tag-having","tag-heart-attack","tag-increase","tag-many","tag-risk","tag-study","tag-sugary-drinks","tag-sweets","tag-too","tag-us"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eating too many sugary drinks, desserts and sweets could increase your risk of having a heart attack, the findings of a large US study suggest - Online Health &amp; 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