People have been advised to have only one sugary drink a week after a new study linked high levels of sugar consumption to a wide range of health conditions. For each extra sugary drink per week, researchers say people can increase their odds of suffering a number of conditions.
They said that high sugar consumption is “generally more harmful than beneficial for health”. And the authors also called for more research into the links between high sugar consumption and cancer after the study suggested a link between the two.
Academics in China and the US conducted an “umbrella review” on the health impacts of sugar intake. This means that they examined evidence from multiple existing reviews of evidence and in total examined data from 73 meta-analyses involving 8,601 studies.
