Drinking more than one can a day of fizzy drink can not only rot your teeth but give you gout according to researchers at Canada’s university of British Columbia. Gout is a condition which causes joint pain and affects over 600,000 people in the UK. It’s thought that large amounts of fructose causes gout by increasing uric acid levels in the blood.

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