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25,000 U.S. Deaths Linked to Sugary Drinks
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Posted on 03/20/2013 5:50:29 AM PDT by 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."

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KEYWORDS: aspartine; bloomberg; bullystate; fda; gmocornsyrup; scam; sugarscam
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What would we do without studies? Who paid for this nonsense...........?
1 posted on 03/20/2013 5:50:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Bloomberg was RIGHT!


2 posted on 03/20/2013 5:52:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Sub-Driver

OK then, case closed. More people croak from soda pop than from guns.


3 posted on 03/20/2013 5:52:46 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Sub-Driver

A sugary drink never killed anyone, period.

This study is crap.


4 posted on 03/20/2013 5:54:23 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Sub-Driver

And now that government controls your healthcare...


5 posted on 03/20/2013 5:54:52 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: Sub-Driver

If something comes out of one of the Harvard Hard Science or Engineering schools - better believe it.

As for their Law, Business, and Health schools - better put on your bull Obama hat.


6 posted on 03/20/2013 5:54:59 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: TexasFreeper2009

These people are complete buffoons


7 posted on 03/20/2013 5:55:03 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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“OK then, case closed. More people croak from soda pop than from guns.”

Well, are they assault sodas?


8 posted on 03/20/2013 5:55:44 AM PDT by Castigar
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To: Sub-Driver

Life! 100% fatal.


9 posted on 03/20/2013 5:58:30 AM PDT by the_daug
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Same cr** different day.

Stats are anything you want them to be.

Reality: All people die!!

10 posted on 03/20/2013 6:00:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sub-Driver

Given enough grant money, researchers can link anything to anything else.

It is all in the technique — and the amount of money they get.


11 posted on 03/20/2013 6:05:27 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Sub-Driver

These researchers must have had deep conversations with Mika Brzezinski...you know, 30-45 seconds.


12 posted on 03/20/2013 6:05:49 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought it was the sugar from gun shaped Pop Tarts that are the biggest killers.


13 posted on 03/20/2013 6:06:36 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Sub-Driver

I really doubt these idiots “tied” anything to drinking soda.

If they ever release their data and methods I doubt they even have a correlation let alone a causation.


14 posted on 03/20/2013 6:06:55 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: Sub-Driver
The study adds to mounting evidence that sugar-sweetened beverages, loaded with calories that carry little nutritional value, are a public health hazard.

If this is the rationale for banning food or drink, what's next?

Pies, cakes, Twinkies, chips, pretzels, crackers, cookies, candy, alcoholic beverages, sweet tea, sweet coffee, yada, yada, yada. None of those have nutritional value.

Why just sugary soda or is this just the camel's nose under the tent?

15 posted on 03/20/2013 6:07:27 AM PDT by randita
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To: Sub-Driver

So, 1 out of 12,000 of us die from sugary drinks every year. Even if true and accurate, that’s almost a non-existent rate.


16 posted on 03/20/2013 6:11:23 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: randita

They are coming after your cold ones next. Beer bellys and all those carbs.

Its for the children.


17 posted on 03/20/2013 6:14:39 AM PDT by Gasshog (Welcome to the United States of Stupidos!)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Human saliva causes cancer, but only when swallowed in small amounts over long periods of time.”


18 posted on 03/20/2013 6:15:05 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
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Well, are they assault sodas?

Bloomberg think so. The question remains, do people have the right to abuse their bodies?

19 posted on 03/20/2013 6:15:17 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
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Singh and colleagues spent five years putting the pieces together

guess all the slots at the global warming scam are all filled up....and who funded their study?

20 posted on 03/20/2013 6:16:18 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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