Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Tied To Health Problems.

CDC’s journal Preventing Chronic Disease reveals “some interesting connections between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and a slew of health problems.” Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York “looked at how much sugar-sweetened soda people drank, how many vegetables and fruits they ate and how active they were, among other things and noticed a correlation between a person’s soda habit and other health factors.” For example, people who consumed more than one sugar-sweetened soda “per day were more likely to smoke, were more likely to eat no fruits or vegetables, and were more likely to have gone a month without much walking or biking.” People who drank no sugar-sweetened soda on a daily basis had a decreased likelihood of hypertension and type 2 diabetes. http://time.com/3639703/soda-sugar-health/