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Study: Eating sweets and chocolate may lead to heart disease and premature death


A study found that eating sweets, chocolate and soft drinks can lead to heart disease and death in middle age. Oxford University scientists have tracked 116,000 people eating habits for 15 years, according to the British newspaper "Daily Mail".


The newspaper said that lovers of chocolate and sugary drinks are more likely to develop heart disease in middle age, as heart disease is the main cause of death in the United Kingdom and kills a man in every 4, as a study indicated that eating sweets can lead to heart disease and death. Early.


Oxford University scientists tracked 116,000 people from their eating habits for up to 15 years, examined whether they had been hospitalized or died, and found that people who regularly indulged in chocolate and sugary drinks were more likely to gain weight and develop heart disease in middle age. More than people who abstained from it.


The newspaper said, the study highlighted that two diets increase someone's risk of heart disease, the first is a diet rich in saturated fats, and includes chocolate, butter and processed meats instead of fresh fruits, vegetables and fiber.



The second includes foods containing processed sugars, including soft drinks and fruit juices, and table sugar while avoiding high-fat cheese and butter, and they found that those who consumed the first diet were 7% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in middle age, while That the other group was 4% more likely.


It is known that saturated fats cause clogging of arteries, which leads to heart disease, and research has indicated that processed sugars increase blood pressure and can stimulate the liver to enter harmful fats into the bloodstream as well. About 7.6 million people in Britain suffer from heart disease. Of them, 4 million men, and 3.6 million women, in the United States, the number is 30.3 million, explaining that it is the main cause of death in the United Kingdom, where one in 4 men and one in 5 women kills.


Scientists asked participants in England, Scotland and Wales between the ages of 37 and 73 to fill out online questionnaires about their daily diets between 2006 and 2010, and then compared that to numbers who were hospitalized or died from 2017 to 2020.


Dr Carmen Bernas, of the university's Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, who led the study, said people need to be aware of the risks of eating sugar, adding that cardiovascular disease is a major cause of death and disability in the UK and poor diet is a major contributor to However, the most common nutritional guidelines are based on the nutrients found in foods rather than the foods themselves, and this can be confusing to the public.


The newspaper said, our findings help identify specific foods and drinks commonly consumed in Britain that may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and death.


The analysis, published in the journal BMC Medicine, found that those who ate more chocolate, sweets, butter, and white bread were more likely to be male, younger and from poor backgrounds. They also tended to be smokers, were less physically active, and lived with obesity or suffering from Hypertension.


The newspaper said, the participants who drank soft drinks, fruit juice, and preserves, were more likely to have cardiovascular disease and death even though they tended to be physically active, and were less likely to be smokers or suffer from obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes or High cholesterol, indicating that women under their 60s or those who are obese in particular, are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease if they eat a diet rich in these foods.


The newspaper said that sugar in itself is not bad, we need it to nourish the brain, immune cells and muscles, and we cannot live without it, the findings of this study are linked in one way or another to many other related studies.


The newspaper pointed out that switching to bread, high-fiber cereals and less sweetened grains, eating less chocolate and replacing it with more fruits and vegetables, reducing fruit juice, and switching to low-calorie drinks and water, many of these changes help reduce caloric intake. And weight loss, noting that there are also benefits for gut health and potential immune function.


What we have to do is encourage the many who eat a lot of chocolate, sweets, sweet drinks, etc., is to make small and sustainable changes in diet or drinking habits, which may sometimes take a while but encourage people to try, which is what we need to do. It changes over a period of time to retrain taste, explaining that almost everyone can do it successfully with a little perseverance, at the same time, we must make buying healthy foods easier and cheaper.

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