25,000 U.S. Deaths Linked to Sugary Drinks

Yahoo ^

[Sub-Driver]

25,000 U.S. Deaths Linked to Sugary Drinks ABC NewsBy Katie Moisse | ABC News – 8 hours ago

In a study that's sure to shake up the soda ban debate, Harvard researchers have linked the sugary drinks to 180,000 deaths a year worldwide, 25,000 in the United States alone.

"We know that sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to obesity, and that a large number of deaths are caused by obesity-related diseases. But until now, nobody had really put these pieces together," said Gitanjali Singh, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study presented today at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in New Orleans.

Singh and colleagues spent five years putting the pieces together. Using data from national health surveys around the world, the team tied sugar-sweetened beverages to 133,000 deaths from diabetes, 44,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and 6,000 deaths from cancer in 2010.

The study adds to mounting evidence that sugar-sweetened beverages, loaded with calories that carry little nutritional value, are a public health hazard.

"I think our findings should really impel policymakers to make effective policies to reduce sugary beverage consumption since it causes a significant number of deaths," said Singh, adding that she thinks "cause" is an appropriate word despite the limitations of the association study.

The American Beverage Association criticized the study, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, calling it "more about sensationalism than science."

[Marathoner]

They will take my Coke Cherry Zero from my cold, dead fingers

[wac3rd]

Liberalism is the disease of spending money on things that have no value, such as 75% of Government workers.

Studies to fund policy...there is no end to the waste.

There is an entire class of academics, bureaucrats and crony businesses that drink the same taxpayer-funded bathwater...

Cloward-Piven example #23,343

[ExCTCitizen]

Government paid for this study

Wrong -- THE TAXPAYERS paid for this study.

fixed it

[Nip]

In Reality there was no study - at least in a manner reflecting how I was trained to do such studies.

First question - where was the control group? They claim a relatively small number of deaths nation wide but where is the study on a like group who never had a highly sugared drink in their lives?

Second question - what is the threshold for calling a drink “highly sugared”? What parts per million?

Third question - what was the duration of the study?

There a many other questions that should be asked to establish the validity of this “study”!

IMHO, this study like so many other “studies” consisted of someone reading a bunch of other studies and making unsupported conclusions based on the frequency of a minor data packet, if that. i also find it interesting that this “study” was released after the court system struck down Bloomberg’s ban on larger sodas.

[ExCTCitizen]

It’s true....they contain Dihydrogen Monoxide.....

We should ban it!!! It contains Carbonated Dihydrogen Monoxide!!

[ExCTCitizen]

True... so True!!!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Important safety note: Before consuming sugary drinks, it is important to remember to consume only the drink, not its container. Some 25,000 Americans a year are dieing because they attempted to swallow a sugary drink can, bottle, or box, and subsequently choked.

[ExCTCitizen]

Important safety note: Before consuming sugary drinks, it is important to remember to consume only the drink, not its container. Some 25,000 Americans a year are dieing because they attempted to swallow a sugary drink can, bottle, or box, and subsequently choked.

LOL

[VideoDoctor]

What about AUTOMOBILES?... and ALCOHOL?.. and..

Oh, that's right... NOBODY leaves here ALIVE, so SOMETHING is going to END each and every life.

My point: Enjoy your life and disregard the many, many STUDIES.

[KeyLargo]

Coke cutting 750 U.S. jobs
@CNNMoney March 21, 2013: 8:24 AM ET

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The study adds to mounting evidence that sugar-sweetened beverages, loaded with calories that carry little nutritional value, are a public health hazard.

LULZ!

Nanny State PING!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[HoneysuckleTN]

"We know that sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to obesity, and that a large number of deaths are caused by obesity-related diseases. But until now, nobody had really put these pieces together," said Gitanjali Singh, a postdoctoral research fellow

Gah! These so-called "doctors" are dumb as a box of rocks. Most beverages are sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, NOT cane sugar.

[elkfersupper]

I have it from a good source that ANYONE that drank Whole Vitamin D milk during the War of 1812 died.

100% of people born before 1812 who consumed carrots died.

Control freaks with an agenda just make this crap up.