Sipping sodas – sugary or diet – seems to slightly increase a person’s risk of developing a potentially dangerous irregular heart rhythm, a new study shows.
“Our study's findings cannot definitively conclude that one beverage poses more health risk than another due to the complexity of our diets and because some people may drink more than one type of beverage,” said lead author Dr. Ningjian Wang, a researcher at the Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in Shanghai.-sweetened beverages whenever possible,” Wang added in a journal news release.
Both the American Heart Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have called for people to minimize consumption of sugary drinks“We still need more research on these beverages to confirm these findings and to fully understand all the health consequences onand other health conditions,” Kris-Etherton noted. “In the meantime, water is the best choice, and, based on this study, no- and low-calorie sweetened beverages should be limited or avoided.
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