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Arizona Sonoran News

The National Post created this infographic to compare the American Heart Association's daily recommended sugar intake with the sugar contents of popular food items. Jennifer Sygo/National Post.

The United States of sugar addicts

Lindsey Wilhelm March 24, 2016

What do you know about sugar? As a substance most people in the U.S. consume in excess daily, one might think the general population would be more educated about it. The average American ingests more...

Dr. Zain Khalpey, cardiac surgeon and director of the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at the University of Arizona, conducts research in his lab using a pig heart.

Heart disease more deadly than breast cancer, receives less funding

ACrandall-Correll October 30, 2014

While one in 31 American women dies every year from breast cancer, one in three dies of heart disease. Yet heart disease and the organizations that raise money for it take a backseat when it comes to...

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