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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Delicious Beverage or Global Killer?
Every year, people all across the globe drink beverages loaded with sugar. According to a Global Burden of Disease Study, drinking too many sugary drinks can lead to diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and some forms of cancer. Although this study was only done on adults and not children, the researchers still found this growing problem to attribute for 180,000 adult deaths worldwide each year, 25,000 of which were in the U.S. The study linked sugary drinks to 133,000 diabetes deaths, 44,000 cardiovascular disease deaths, and 6,000 cancer deaths. Mexico had the highest death rate due to sugary drinks and Japan had the lowest. Now you may be asking yourself, "how much is too much?" According to the American Heart Association, you should consume no more than 450 calories a week due to sugary beverages (one can of Mountain Dew has 110 calories).
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I found this interseting. Sugary beverages being so popular now this may have a huge impact on child obesity too. Child obesity have more than trippeled since 1963.
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This article is interesting and very true to life. I found that diet drinks are also not that great. In the short term, they can be, but in the long term they can cause weight gain as well, which could lead to obesity. The article that I found suggested taking sugary drinks out of the equation and to limit the amount of diet drinks.
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This website explained that cutting out soda from your diet is one of the easiest ways to diet/live a healthier life style. Even though soda isn’t the only thing that is contributing to the problem of obesity, it is the easiest thing to cut out of your diet and live a little bit healthier. I also think that when people have had some sort of soda with caffeine in it as a daily routine for a long period of time, they may become dependent on it and that may cause them to have more difficulty not drinking as much soda pop.
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When people try to go on diets or lose weight, it seems like cutting the amount of fatty foods they eat is the first thing they go for. It is different to think that sugary drinks can be just as bad. In the 25,000 United States deaths in 2010, it can be linked to the fact that 2/3 of adults and one in three children are overweight or obese.
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It's interesting that we consume so much soda without thinking about it. According to the article I found, "16% of calories in the typical American’s diet come from refined sugars and half of those calories come from beverages with added sugar,”, which is very alarming. Also, the sugar substitutes used in diet sodas can be just as bad-- I've heard people claim they cause stomach aches or prolonged illnesses, and many people have removed them from their diets.
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