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Americans are eating more sugar as the world warms, study finds
WTNH Television ^ | 9/825 | AP

Posted on 09/09/2025 2:59:18 AM PDT by Puppage

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming in the United States is amping up the country’s sweet tooth, a new study found.

When the temperature rises, Americans — especially those with less money and education — drink lots more sugary beverages and a bit more frozen desserts. It amounts to more than 100 million pounds of added sugar (358 million kilograms) consumed in a year, compared to 15 years earlier, according to a team of researchers in the U.S. and United Kingdom writing in Monday’s Nature Climate Change.

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What a load of crap! Is there anything GW doesn’t affect?
1 posted on 09/09/2025 2:59:18 AM PDT by Puppage
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In other news rich leftists keep buying more coastal property as the oceans rise.

Lol.


2 posted on 09/09/2025 3:04:58 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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It’s not GW. It Walmart. They’re selling tons of sugary Mexican coke made in Mexico.


3 posted on 09/09/2025 3:06:18 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Is this damn country so hard up for Judges that we have to hire Sparkle Sookananan from Trinidad?)
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To: Puppage

Indeed this story is a pant-load.

Quick Google search says population of USA was 309 million in 2010 and 340 million today.

So I wonder just how much of that ADDITIONAL 100 million pounds of sugar can be DIRECTLY attributed to the extra 30 million people????


4 posted on 09/09/2025 3:10:46 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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does sugary drink include juice....cuz they give it to the school kids across the nation..when they should be getting whole milk. Go back to the typical diet of the 40s and 50s.


5 posted on 09/09/2025 3:17:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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It’s called “intersectionality”. The Dims dream up ways to explain why their various causes are tied together. In this case it’s telling the people who like to say they fight obesity to also help their doomsday Warmageddon cult. Otherwise the leftists will be less likely to operate less like one cohesive party.


6 posted on 09/09/2025 3:20:52 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Good lord, eating sugar has nothing to do with the weather. People are just too stupid to steam broccoli and would rather eat cookies.


7 posted on 09/09/2025 3:27:27 AM PDT by yldstrk
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Typical journalistic idiocy.
Correlation does not equal causation.

Then again, perhaps we have something here ... Global warming is causing ever larger numbers of journalists to be lazy, ignorant hacks.


8 posted on 09/09/2025 3:35:22 AM PDT by 70times7
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It’s called WATER. The only think that cures thirst. Drink it. Geez.


9 posted on 09/09/2025 3:38:10 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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Nothing the healthy Covid vax’s couldn’t fix that us uneducated Neanderthal’s refused to take. Pardon me while I take a sip of my iced sweet tea.


10 posted on 09/09/2025 3:41:18 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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Well, since we took most of the junk foods and soda off of the SNAP it should be reduced a whole lot now.


11 posted on 09/09/2025 3:41:31 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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When a report cites a study, our BS meter should be pinging loud.


12 posted on 09/09/2025 3:41:39 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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When a report cites a study, our BS meter should be pinging loud.


13 posted on 09/09/2025 3:41:40 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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When temperatures rise, people grill more outside, so they eat more meat, so they are happier and healthier.

They go skinny dipping more, so they make more babies.

They wash their cool cars more, so they last longer.

Their kids play in the sunshine more, so they are happier and healthier.

I like my world much better.


14 posted on 09/09/2025 3:57:00 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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Coldest August in the state of Virginia since records have been kept.
And that is in spite of the weather CHEAT.
Yes folks; our government more precisely (our) woke giverment employees cheat and lie a lot.
You name it; crime rates, employment, presidents and their competence, Elections, citizenship, weather stats, illegal alien importation.
Yes there is a cheat and it always goes against our consensus and helps an agenda.
In fact wheather adjusted up or later adjusted down or just a straight faced lie that has been a still continues to be our government .

Thank God for President Trump and his team, finally a government that we the people can depend on.
Now to drain the swamp, fire everyone starting with that woke dmv in vienna va flying our flag upside down, damn just damn.
Little red lying hood is their poster girl


15 posted on 09/09/2025 4:03:57 AM PDT by Recompennation
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Or illegals from Mexico/South America chug soda like it’s water.

You go to a non tourist area in SA and there is zero water available or even diet drinks. 100% sugar all day.


16 posted on 09/09/2025 4:12:41 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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If the world warms due to human intervention then look to China and India not the USA


17 posted on 09/09/2025 4:20:57 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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It’s 45 here right now.


18 posted on 09/09/2025 4:21:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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With all the Co2 in the air, plants are having great time!

According to hundreds of studies, plants need about ~800 ppm of Co2 in the air for optimal growth. This is about double of present day concentration, but it was a normal Co2 concentration few million years ago, and for most of last half a billion years.
We are still living in the epoch of extremally LOW CO2 concentration!

So, sugar cane, corn and sugar beet yields are breaking records and we have lots of sugar and corn syrup available!
Let’s go and have a Coke, with cane sugar preferably!


19 posted on 09/09/2025 4:24:03 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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“Global warming in the United States is amping up the country’s sweet tooth, a new study found.”
Then sugar intake would naturally be much higher in the summer than in the winter. Except it isn’t. Sugar intake would be higher in Florida than in Vermont, except it isn’t. Ridiculous garbage. Sugar intake would be higher in the daytime than at night. Except it isn’t.


20 posted on 09/09/2025 4:25:40 AM PDT by brookwood (America Was Built By MS-13. We Are A Nation Of MS-13.)
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