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      Public Health: “Consumption of coffee and tea with add-ins in relation to daily energy, sugar, and fat intake in US adults, 2001–2012.”
    
      JAMA International Medicine: “Added sugar intake and cardiovascular diseases mortality among US adults.”
    
      Harvard Health Publishing: “The sweet danger of sugar.”
    
      Diabetes Care: “Changes in Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results From Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohorts of Women and Men”
    




Breakfast foods often come loaded with sugar, but a few easy swaps can help slash the sweet stuff.

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Choose plain oatmeal and add fresh fruit.

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Skip the OJ and opt for fruit-infused sparkling water if you need something sweet.

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Image Credit: Letizia Le Fur/ONOKY/GettyImages

      Public Health: “Consumption of coffee and tea with add-ins in relation to daily energy, sugar, and fat intake in US adults, 2001–2012.”
    
      JAMA International Medicine: “Added sugar intake and cardiovascular diseases mortality among US adults.”
    
      Harvard Health Publishing: “The sweet danger of sugar.”
    
      Diabetes Care: “Changes in Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results From Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohorts of Women and Men”