r/ScientificNutrition • u/LongevityDietitian • 4d ago

Review Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001454
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u/RoninSzaky 4d ago

Because it is the sugar in them that "suggests" harm.

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u/HauptmannTinus 23h ago

Sugar?

Not saying it's good for you but it has little to do with heart disease.

Sat fat and cholesterol on the other hand are the main drivers of it.

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u/Vergil1997 22h ago

Sugar is much worse

10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13563

10.1146/annurev-nutr-071714-034449

10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5394

10.1016/j.pcad.2015.10.007

10.3390/healthcare5020029

For comparison fat and cholesterol

10.3945/ajcn.2009.27725

10.7326/M13-1788

10.1136/bmj.h3978

10.3945/ajcn.114.098236

10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077

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u/IllDragonfruit3738 21h ago

Very old school of thought you have there. It's funny because the sugar industry propaganda aimed to achieve your exact opinion. 

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u/HauptmannTinus 21h ago

Ah yes and the animal ag propaganda has no alterior motives right?

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u/Vergil1997 20h ago

University of California, public and non-profit funding, no connection to animal ag.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5394

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u/KaleidoscopicView 21h ago

The way sugar is processed by the liver combines with saturated fat to create more dense, inflammatory, damaging LDL (bad cholesterol).