Soft drinks double diabetes risk: study

Cox News Service ^ | 8/25/04

[adam_az]

Sugar is bad and stuff.

[adam_az]

ping!

[Lil'freeper]

Shocking.

< / sarcasm >

[Mr. Jeeves]

High fructose corn syrup is even worse. ;)

[aruanan]

Soft drinks double diabetes risk: study

Because women who tend to drink soft drinks are also those women who tend to sit around and get fat and, as a result of obesity, increase their risk of developing Type II diabetes.

[Awestruck]

soft drinks will become the new cigarettes.. villified, socially unnacceptable.. not outright banned or illegal but so reprehensible that they might as well be.

[BlindGuardian]

Uh oh.....wait till I tell my classmates at school : (

[Salvation]

One of the rules in my household while my kids (five) were growing up was "No soda pop in the house." Also candy only on special occasions and definitely not during Advent and Lent.

They all have good teeth and none are overweight or headed for diabetes!

Parents need to make and enforce rules. Kids don't make the rules, because they don't know what is best for them.

There......you heard it with both barrels from one parent!

[carlo3b]

I am more than bored with all of the claims that anything that brings any enjoyment into our lives will KILL you, or words to that effect. The implication is that any amount of sugar is the gateway to illness and eventually, death.. Well here is some news to the ninnies/nannies out there..

DRUM ROLL Pleaseeeee...... you are going to die even if you live in a constant state of deprivation and sacrifice, yep! You can say you heard it here first!.. :)

[gcruse]

soft drinks will become the new cigarettes.. villified, socially unnacceptable.. not outright banned or illegal but so reprehensible that they might as well be.

Are you a libertarian yet? 

LOL

Banning things for the good of 'society' is statist. Margaret Thatcher observed that there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.  I agree.

[Bonaparte]

Every year I see articles like this one. The truth is that nobody is even close to finding the "cause" of adult onset diabetes.

[BunnySlippers]

Well, Atkins here ...

[cyborg]

Well I am not so sure a 64 ounce super big gulp should be part of one's food repertoire :-)

[SamAdams76]

In another study, it was determined that those who spend one hour or more in the sun each day are twice as likely to develop a suntan than those who spend less than an hour a month in the sun.

[Bonaparte]

Hi, Carlo. One of my favorite bumper stickers --

Exercise, Eat Right, And Die Anyway

[Awestruck]

with pardon to Groucho.... I wouldn't be a member of any party that would have me as a member...

[adam_az]

"DRUM ROLL Pleaseeeee...... you are going to die even if you live in a constant state of deprivation and sacrifice, yep! You can say you heard it here first!.. :)"

Refined white sugar... has only been available in cheap large quantities for a relatively short amount of time.

[Doe Eyes]

I am more than bored with all of the claims that anything that brings any enjoyment into our lives will KILL you, or words to that effect.

Yeah, next thing you know, those busy bodies will say drinking a quart of whisky is bad for your health.

[carlo3b]

Why not have a nice BIG cold drink from time to time? However, if that someone indulges that is in a risk group, of overweight, as in obesity, diabetes, and shrug off the consequences of such a stupid act with the almost guaranteed results.. DRINK UP, get it over with, the sooner the better.. :)