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Drinking lots of fruit juice could increase risk of an early death just as much as other sugary drinks.
Little benefit from 100 per cent fruit juices compared to other drinks as both mainly contain sugar and water.
Natural sugars in fruit juice are similar to the sugars in other drinks after being processed in the body.
Therefore both are associated with increased all-cause mortality.
Current advice is to swap sugary drinks for water, lower fat milks and lower sugar or diet drinks.
13,440 US adults over the age of 45 with no previous heart conditions were studied for 6 years.
Research by Emory University, published in the journal JAMA Open.
