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From working out...
"It's allowed me to get back active," said John Norsen.
...To eating healthy.
"I don't drink any soda anymore. Don't eat candy or anything," Norsen said.
After triple bypass surgery, doctors told Norsen to change his diet.
"Added sugar leads to increased obesity, increased cholesterol levels. Increased markers of heart disease," said Dr. Christopher Cove.
Experts say Americans are addicted to sugar. That's why the American Heart Association is setting limits.
"The recommendation for women is no more than six teaspoons a day and for men, no more than ine teaspoons a day," said registered dietitian Tracy Cherry.
Soft drinks are the number one source of added sugar.
"One of the most important ways to cut back on sugars is to cut down on soda, sweetened ice tea and you know juices that have sugar added to those," Cherry said.
Just to give you a little idea of these recommendations, there's 16.25 teaspoons of sugar in a 20 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola. That's almost twice the amount of recommended added sugar for a man on a daily basis.
"When it's displayed like this and now when we have recommendations that the American Heart Association recommends, then this kind of visual and seeing these numbers is quite powerful, so people are very amazed," Cherry said.
Norsen says cutting back on added sugar is easier than most people thing.
"Wish I had done so 30 years ago," Norsen said.
He hopes others don't wait as long as he did.
"Star young. Watch what you're eating and you'll save yourself a lot of grief as you get older.