Island Drug Podcast

Those of us walking around with a sweet tooth got more bad news this week. A study by the CDC that was just published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine concluded that adding sugar to the diet can more than double someone's risk of heart related death. Now on the surface this seems like nothing new. Medical professionals have long thought dietary sugar to be a serious issue because it promotes chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity; however, this research suggest that adding sugar to a diet regardless of other health problems increases the risk of death from heart disease. We are not talking about the sugar that naturally occurs in food like the sugar of a fruit; we are taking about refined sugar added to a food product. Please click here to download accompanying text; http://islanddrug.com/podcasts/Sugar.pdf