That can of Coke may be a death wish, according to a new study. The research links the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages to an increased risk of mortality from Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The study, published in early January in Nature Medicine, assigns sugar-sweetened beverages the responsibility for about 340,000 deaths around the world annually1. In 2020 alone, sugar-sweetened drinks like soda, fruit punch, or energy drinks also led to 2.2 million additional cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million cases of cardiovascular disease.
For health experts, this health crisis has hardly elicited the appropriate response from regulating bodies….
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