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As the title states, I want to know what are the **long term** negative effects of a diet with a very high intake of sugar.
I am well aware of short term effects (fatigue, for example), but I can’t really understand the long term ones. Most of what I have read describe issues associated with an overall bad diet (or poor dental hygiene).
I am talking about someone (me) who tries to have a very balanced diet, eating the right amount of calories every day, with good amounts of exercise, where the only deviation is a high intake of normal white sugar.
In: Biology
“Over the course of the 15-year study on added sugar and heart disease, participants who took in 25% or more of their daily calories as sugar were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease as those whose diets included less than 10% added sugar. Overall, the odds of dying from heart disease rose in tandem with the percentage of sugar in the diet—and that was true regardless of a person’s age, sex, physical activity level, and body-mass index (a measure of weight).” – [Source.](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/eating-too-much-added-sugar-increases-the-risk-of-dying-with-heart-disease-201402067021)
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