Drink soda, get diabetes
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Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, analyzed and reviewed 88 studies which explored the relationship between soda and poor nutrition, obesity and diabetes.
No surprise – at least to me – there is one.
Results of one particular study published in the American Journal of Public Health followed 91,000 women for 8 years.
The findings: women who drank one or more sodas per day (national average consumption is two, 12-ounces), were twice as likely to develop diabetes over the course of the study as compared to women who drank less than one soda per month.
So basically, if you’re an average or more soda drinker, you’re twice as likely to develop diabetes.
And as noted in the previous post… that means you’re also 65% more likely to develop Alzheimer.
Shouldn’t there be a Surgeon General’s warning on soda?!?
What has a greater health impact…
Cigarettes or soda?
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