Ways Too Much Sugar Harms Your Body

Sugary diets are bad for your heart, regardless of how much you weigh. They can:

• Raise your so-called “bad” (LDL) cholesterol and lower the “good” (HDL) kind.
• Hike blood fats called triglycerides and hinder the work of an enzyme that breaks them down.

Most packaged foods, snacks, and drinks are sweetened with fructose, a simple sugar from fruits or veggies like corn. Your liver turns it into fat. If you regularly pump fructose into your body, tiny drops of fat build up in your liver. This is called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Early diet changes can reverse it. But over time, swelling and scarring can damage your liver.