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Submitted by PatientsEngage on 11 September 2014

Fareed speaks with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta about recent research on the risks of high sugar consumption. 

"I think there's two issues here. One is that fat doesn't get a free pass here. There's still some problems with it. It still raises cholesterol levels. That is associated with heart disease. The problem is that what we replaced fat with was sugar. And sugar may be more problematic, in some ways, for someone who's worried about heart disease than fat."

See the full interview on http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/09/10/why-sugar-is-worse-than-fat/