Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not all sugar, it’s bad for our health

Medical X-Press – Cherie Russell, Carley Grimes, Mark Lawrence, Phillip Baker and Rebecca Lindberg

Humans have an evolutionary preference for sweetness. Sweet foods, like fruit and honey, were an important energy source for our ancestors. However, in the modern world, sweetened foods are readily available, very cheap and advertised extensively. Now, we are consuming too much sugar in foods and drinks—the kind that is added rather than sugar that is naturally occurring. Consuming too much added sugar is bad news for health. It is linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay.

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