Researchers recommend limiting added sugar intake to 6 teaspoons daily

By Emma Bascom
To prevent the adverse effects of added sugars, researchers recommend reducing intake to about 6 teaspoons per day and having less than one sugar-sweetened beverage every week.

Recent research has shown that higher intake of added sugars, also known as “free sugars,” was linked to a higher risk for CVD, and substituting them with non-free sugars was inversely associated with both total CVD and stroke incidence.
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