Posted on 03/18/2019 9:14:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Added sugars should make up less than 10 percent of the total calories a person consumes per day, according to federal health guidelines. For a person consuming 2,000 calories per day, that equates to no more than 200 calories. The average can of soda contains 150 calories, or 75 percent of a person's daily allowance.
Researchers found that for every additional sugary drink a person consumed, their risk of dying from heart disease increased by 10 percent. Malik said while the optimal amount of sweet drinks a person should drink is "zero," the risk of drinking one or two per week would probably be small or undetectable.
The observational study tracked data from nearly 120,000 men and women over the course of three decades.
Researchers adjusted for anything that could affect the results, such as diet and lifestyle factors. Regardless, they acknowledged residual effects may have altered the findings.
The American Beverage Association, which represents the nation's biggest soda makers, said soft drinks are safe to consume "as part of a balanced diet."
"We don't think anyone should overconsume sugar, that's why we're working to reduce the sugar people consume from beverages across the country," William Dermody said in an email.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
What about all these so called ‘energy’ drinks?....Monster, Red Bull, et al?..................
Well, you are going to die from something. Might as well be something you enjoy.
If this was true then my chance of dying from a heart attack is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000% by now.
Had a friend take a trip to the emergency room this past weekend, heart palpitations, all that. Seems the culprit was stress and 4 cups of coffee.
I think that we could all do with a bit more water and less of the exotic beverages.
Just drink water. And beer. And coffee, which is basically water.
I’m pre diabetic. For people like me, sodas are nothing but poison. I made the mistake of assuming sports drinks were ok. Hey they’re “sports” drinks right? I was drinking 3 or 4 a week. My a1c shot up a full point. Sports drinks are no better than soda for people like me.
I eliminated soda and sports drinks, I’m controlling it without meds.
AOC would say, “that stuff will kill you in 12 years”.
Im so thankful my parents didnt raise me sodas and other sugary drinks ,,
but I am getting a beer-belly..
I believe our government is again, mixing up information on purpose. I have never, ever seen a direct link between sugar and heart disease. Ever.
Obesity, sure, stress, low activity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and the like. But a direct link between sugar and heart disease. Nope.
Only that in some people who consume lots of sugar get obese. Having a couple of obese people in my family, it is not sugar. It is everything. They over eat, daily, every meal, everything. Neither even drink soda and such.
As Jocelyn Elders once said, “We’re all gonna die from something.”..................
The Sugar Lobby is powerful....................
...there is little to no scientific evidence linking prediabetes to diabetes. He also notes that prediabetes has not been found to cause health problems in people who have been so diagnosed.
Piller outlines the history of the coinage of the term, relating that it came about as representatives from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and other diabetes-related institutions met to discuss the possible implications of patients with above-normal levels of glucose in their blood. The fear was that prediabetes would lead to full-blown diabetes and thus there existed an opportunity to prevent the disease if prediabetes could be treated.
Piller argues that the problem was a lack of evidence to suggest that might be the case. But that did not stop the CDC and many other institutions from adopting the term and using it as a warning marker for people with elevated glucose levels. Piller also suggests another problem. The ADA is a nonprofit organization and relies on donations to survive. Much of those funds, he found, come from pharmaceutical companies that sell drugs such as metformin, which have been developed to reduce the damage that diabetes does to the body.
Piller reports that in recent years, the ADA has lowered the conditions required to be diagnosed as prediabetic, resulting in far more people being diagnosed as such, a move he suggests could have been due to pressure from its pharmaceutical partners hoping to cash in on treatment products. This is because some doctors have begun prescribing medications to patients diagnosed as prediabetic. Some have even begun to prescribe drugs such as metformin to patients who do not even have diabetes, all in the name of preventing them from getting it.
But not everyone is on the prediabetes bandwagon, Piller points out. The World Health Organization has rejected it as a diagnosis, as have many other institutions around the world. There is also trouble with the numbers—tens of millions of people have been diagnosed as prediabetic, far more than will ever develop the disease. He cites an example: approximately 16 million people in the U.K. have been diagnosed as prediabetic, but only 3.3 million people there actually have type 2 diabetes.
He concludes by suggesting that coinage of the term has led to classifying many healthy people as having an illness, which has led to negative consequences for them such as financial losses due to having to pay for care, and unnecessary anxiety.
Link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-prediabetes-medical-condition-attention.html
“I have never, ever seen a direct link between sugar and heart disease. Ever.”
Try google ...
Well, definitely. If your friend went to the ER after being stressed and drinking coffee, then everyone else in the world should change whatever they are doing.
On a long enough timeline everyone’s survival rate drops to zero.
That was one of the less controversial things she said as Clinton’s Surgeon General. I recall her vividly. She was quite a pistol.
“If this was true then my chance of dying from a heart attack is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000% by now.”
When I was in high school, I drank 4 -6 pints of cola per day. When I was in my mid-50’s I started having problems with lack of stamina, shortness of breath and chest pains. I think it wasn’t until the 4th stress (treadmill) test that my erratic heartbeat was finally detected by a doctor.
I had 3 arteries that were 95+% plugged and had 3 stents installed in 2009.
I believe it was all that sugar in the pop that messed me up...
Also a fan of Eric Clapner.
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