WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) – Recently, a team of international researchers analyzed the impact of sugar-sweetened beverages on health, focusing on their contribution to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Previously, several studies have linked the consumption of sugary drinks to obesity, overweight, and increased risk of heart disease.
The researchers used data from the Global Dietary Database and other authoritative sources, analyzing over 450 dietary surveys. They considered factors like population-level sugary beverage consumption data, optimal intake levels derived from meta-analyses, and the direct and body mass index-mediated effects of sugary drinks on health.
The findings, published in Nature Medicine, revealed that sugary drinks have damaged the health of people of Colombia, Mexico and South Africa with 48 percent of all new diabetes cases in Colombia linked to sugar-sweetened beverages, whereas the same caused one-third of all new diabetes cases in Mexico. Such drinks were connected to 27.6 percent of new diabetes cases and
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