A new study says that sugary drinks are responsible for approximately 184,000 adult deaths, and not just in the US.
The Los Angeles Daily News reports that sugary drinks – such as Coca-Cola and Gatorade – pose a bigger threat than violent crime in Mexico.
A study by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University estimates that 24,000 Mexican locals die every year from diseases linked to sugary drinks. Officially, there are 15,649 murders a year linked to violent crime in Mexico, proving that sugary drinks are a higher threat.
The study, which was published in the journal Circulation link 25,000 American deaths to sugary drinks, and over 184,000 deaths worldwide every year.
Dariush Mozaffarian, senior author of the study and dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts Universality, believes that in light of the deaths linked to drinking sugar-laden beverages it “should be a global priority to substantially reduce or eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages from the diet.”
Many countries in the world have a significant number of deaths occurring from a single dietary factor, sugar-sweetened beverages. It should be a global priority to substantially reduce or eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages from the diet.
The research included 62 dietary surveys conducted between 1980 and 2010, according to Medical News Today. This data included 611,971 persons from a total of 51 countries and the data on the availability of sugar in each nation, including information on the “direct impact of sugary beverages” on diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
However, dietary changes for a population can be challenging, says Mozaffarian who also indicated that an increase in fruits and vegetables in diets “can be challenging due to agriculture, costs, storage, and other complexities.”
Some population dietary changes, such as increasing fruits and vegetables, can be challenging due to agriculture, costs, storage, and other complexities. This is not complicated. There are no health benefits from sugar-sweetened beverages, and the potential impact of reducing consumption is saving tens of thousands of deaths each year.
Switching to diet soda, or other beverages with a sugar alternative, is not always a healthy alternative. Recent studies have discovered that diet drinks pose their own health risks, including weight gain.
