Context:
Hu, who is also a professor of medicine at
Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Channing Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, pointed to the health consequences of failing to act. Centers for Disease Control studies show that people who get more than 10 percent of their daily calories from products with added sugar had a 40 percent increased risk of dying of heart disease, Hu said.
Panelist
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/03/too-sweet-for-our-own-good/#http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/dariush-mozaffarian/’06, an associate professor in epidemiology at HSPH, warned that the dietary focus should also be on targeting “poor-quality carbohydrates” such as refined grains, potatoes, and sugar.
“Fifty percent of our calories come from poor-quality carbohydrates,” said Mozaffarian, an associate professor in cardiovascular medicine at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Mary Poppins said a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. There’s a lot of good, healthy, whole-grain products with a little bit of added sugar … If we just use sugars (to gauge a product), we could get misled.”
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http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/03/too-sweet-for-our-own-good/