Eating more sugar means eating less vitamins


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An increase in the consumption of added sugar seems to be linked to a decrease in the consumption of vitamins and mkinerals, according to a new study. — Marco Verch/Flickr

New European research has found that the more added sugar we eat, the fewer vitamins and minerals we appear to consume in our daily diets.

Carried out by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, the new study looked at data gathered from two different study groups.

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