Key Takeaways

High-sugar diets increase your cholesterol levels and risk of heart disease.

Elevated LDL cholesterol is associated with high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke.

Limit added sugar from foods and drinks to less than 10% of your daily calories to optimize your health.

Diets high in added sugar increase the risk of several chronic health conditions.

How Sugar Affects Cholesterol

Consuming too much sugar, even for just a few weeks, increases your cholesterol levels and the risk of heart disease.

Sugars like sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup , commonly added to beverages and foods during production, are broken down in the body into fructose and glucose.

High levels of these simple sugars prompt the body to make more cholesterol.

They also help prevent it fr

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