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Thread ID: 14819 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-08-25
2004-08-25 20:26 | User Profile
[url]http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002014817_soda25.html[/url]
Study links soft drinks to diabetes and obesity in women
By Rob Stein The Washington Post August 25, 2004
WASHINGTON ââ¬â Women who drink nondiet soft drinks or fruit punch every day gain weight quickly and face a sharply elevated risk of getting diabetes, according to a major study released yesterday.
The study of more than 50,000 U.S. nurses found that those who drank one soda or fruit punch a day tended to gain much more weight than those who drank less than one a month and had more than an 80 percent increased risk of developing the most common form of diabetes. The risk pertained to drinks sweetened with either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.
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2004-08-28 00:07 | User Profile
Centinel,
They had to do a study to find out drinking sugar can put on weight? :yawn:
2004-09-09 16:11 | User Profile
This seems like one of those things were you'd have to carefully control many factors. A woman who drinks soda every day is probably going to live an otherwise much less healthy lifestyle than a woman who abstains from soda. Without this, no reliable conclusion can be reached.
It's a given carbonated and flavored sugar water is not healthy.
This study was a complete waste of money -- so you and I must have been forced to pay for it through taxes.