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Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been under fire recently for proposing a ban on large-sized sugary drinks in New York. <\/p>\nMayor Michael Bloomberg has been under fire recently for proposing a ban on large-sized sugary drinks in New York. <\/p>\n
But is it a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater or does research support the efforts?<\/p>\n
The news out of New York is unrelated to a recent study from the University of Maryland Medical Center that looked at a fruit sugar known as fructose. But the timing of the release is a strange coincidence.<\/p>\n
Researchers that followed more than 200,000 people for up to 3 decades across 3 different studies recorded the health and eating habits of people who were not diagnosed with hypertension at the start of the study.<\/p>\n
The participants who drank a sugary drink every day showed a 13% increase in the likelihood of developing high blood pressure compared to peers who did not. <\/p>\n
However, those who consumed the same amount of fructose from fruits were at no greater risk (and in fact at less risk) than those who consumed small amounts of fructose.<\/p>\n
The difference is tentatively being looked at as the source of the fructose and the higher amounts being consumed in the larger, sugary drinks.<\/p>\n
Put simply, sugars from refined sugars and high fructose corn syrup is bad for your high blood pressure while fructose from fruits is good. Those with type 2 diabetes still have to apply caution with any kind of sugars.<\/p>\n