Frequently drinking sugar-sweetened drinks, such as sodas and sports
drinks, was associated with an increased risk of death from
cardiovascular diseases and, to a lesser extent, cancers, according to
new research in the American Heart Association`s journal Circulation.
Among
study participants the risk of death rose as people drank more
sugar-sweetened drinks. In addition, substituting one sugary drink a day
with an artificially sweetened drink was associated with a slightly
lower risk of dying, but drinking four or more artificially sweetened
drinks a day was associated with a higher risk of death among women.
This finding is not considered as strong as the association between
sugary drinks and a potential link to an increased risk of death and
needs to be confirmed with additional research.
[Drinking water in
place of sugary drinks is a healthy choice that could contribute to
longevity," said Vasanti Malik, Sc.D., lead author on the paper and a
research scientist in the Department of Nutrition in the Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. [Diet soda may be
used to help frequent consumers of sugary drinks cut back their
consumption, but water is the best and healthiest choice."
Although
people have been drinking fewer sugary drinks in the United States in
the past decade, soda and other sweetened drinks still represent the
single largest source of added sugar in the U.S. diet and their
consumption is on the rise around the world.
Much attention has
been given to a potential link between soft drinks, weight gain and
health problems related to weight gain such as cardiovascular disease
and diabetes. But few studies have examined whether sugar-sweetened
b
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