How Sugar Ages Your Heart (UNLESS You Do This)
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October 1st 2025
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In this clip from Rhonda's appearance on @lewishowes' School of Greatness podcast, she discusses:
- Why exercise is essential for improving glucose control
- How chronic elevated glucose levels lead to the formation of harmful advanced glycation end products (AGEs)
- Can sugar actually stiffen your heart and arteries?
- Quick strategies to blunt post-meal glucose spikes
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- Daily sweetened drink intake raises diabetes risk: 23% for sugar-sweetened, 38% for artificially sweetened.
- Artificial sweetener sucralose may disrupt the brain's appetite regulation by mimicking sweetness without increasing blood sugar, leading to increased hunger and altered brain activity.
- Sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to 9.8% of new type 2 diabetes cases and 3.1% of new cardiovascular disease cases globally.
- Drinking more than eight sugar-sweetened drinks a week increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases by up to 31%.
- Adding sugar to tea or coffee increases the risk of premature death by up to 11 percent.
