This week we have been learning about the circulatory system, so I found this article very interesting in relation to what we have been learning about the heart and about diseases of the heart. This article described how they tested a group of men ranging from the ages of 40 to 75 every four years to see what the risk of drinking beverages that were high in sugar had on the relation to heart disease and heart attacks. In this study the researchers controlled for factors such as family history, smoking, and exercise. The study showed that men who drank sweetened drinks were about 20 percent more likely to have heart attacks then those who do not. The study showed that there was a risk of about 19 percent of one daily serving of a sugar sweetened beverage that would increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/health/research/sugar-sweetened-drinks-linked-to-heart-disease.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=heart%20disease&st=cse
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