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The latest findings underscore the advice from experts on diet, health and weight control to avoiding drinking one’s calories, except perhaps for a glass of wine with dinner. Artificial sweeteners, on the other hand, did not confer an added risk in any of the recent studies. Naturally sweet drinks like pure orange, apple and grape juice and drinks sweetened with honey are culprits as well.

Thus, sweet dangers are not limited to beverages sweetened with added sugars, like sodas and energy drinks, that often contain the much maligned high-fructose corn syrup. They found that regular consumption not only of drinks containing added sugars but also naturally sweet fruit juice raised the risk of an early death by as much as 44 percent. Welsh, a nutritional epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, published an analysis of deaths among 13,440 participants in a long-term study seeking to identify factors that elevate the risk of stroke among African-Americans and residents of the Southeast. Cardiovascular mortality was 31 percent higher and the total death rate 28 percent higher among those who consumed two or more sugar-sweetened drinks a day when compared with people who rarely if ever drank them.

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The newest indictments of sugar-sweetened beverages began in April with the publication in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, of causes of death among 37,716 men and 80,647 women initially free of heart disease who were followed for 28 and 34 years, respectively.

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