- Sugar-sweetened beverages raise the risk of type 2 diabetes.
- Drinking sugar is drastically riskier than eating sugar due to its impact on the liver.
- Not all sugars are equally risky, according to BYU study involving half a million people.
Eating your sugar is better for your health than drinking it. Brigham Young University researchers call sugar in beverages a “major culprit” in the growth of type 2 diabetes cases.
Not all sugars are equally risky, according to a new study they conducted that was just published in the journal Advances in Nutrition.
BYU researchers including a pair of students teamed up with researchers at two Germany-based institutions for what’s being called the “largest and most comprehensive meta-analysis of its kind.” Their key finding is that the kind of sugar one consumes and its source…