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Here's how eating sugar affects your body and brain

As kids, most of us thought of sugar as a tasty treat. But now we're growing more aware of the devastating health consequences caused by excessive sugar consumption.

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There are still plenty of myths about sugar and what it actually does to us. After all, sugar is just the name for a simple carbohydrate, and there's always been some sugar in our diets. It's just that today the average American consumes more than twice what the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — and four times what the World Health Organization (WHO) — recommend as safe. And that's dangerous.

Here's how eating sugar, especially too much of it, affects your body:

how sugar affects your body and brain
Skye Gould/Tech Insider
Health Science
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