Here is a link for you:
“In a study published in 2015 in The Lancet, the health outcomes of nearly 140,000 people across 17 countries were tracked over four years, via a variety of measures—including grip strength. Grip strength was not only “inversely associated with all-cause mortality”—every 5 kilogram (kg) decrement in grip strength was associated with a 17 percent risk increase—but as the team, led by McMaster University professor of medicine Darryl Leong, noted: “Grip strength was a stronger predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than systolic blood pressure....
...Low grip strength has been linked to longer hospital stays, and in a study of hospitalized cancer patients, it was linked to a “an approximate 3-fold decrease in probability of discharge alive.””
http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/raising-the-american-weakling-rp
Has it occurred to anyone that a person who drinks a lot of sugary drinks may be doing a LOT of unhealthy living? That like grip strength, it is a symptom of many poor choices rather than a cause of anything?
Pretty much stopped reading right there. Most conservatives may remember the Lancet from the lead up to and into the Gulf War. Remember "100,000 civilian deaths"