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"My Son likes his sugary drinks far too much!"

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A study published by The BMJ today reports a possible association between higher consumption of sugary drinks and and an increased risk of cancer. While cautious interpretation is needed, the findings add to a growing body of evidence indicating that limiting sugary drink consumption, together with taxation and marketing restrictions, might contribute to a reduction in cancer cases. Average daily consumption of sugary drinks was greater in men than in women (90.3 mL v 74.6 mL, respectively). During follow-up 2,193 first cases of cancer were diagnosed and validated (693 breast cancers, 291 prostate cancers, and 166 colorectal cancers). Average age at cancer diagnosis was 59 years. The results show that a 100 mL per day increase in the consumption of sugary drinks was associated with an 18% increased risk of overall cancer and a 22% increased risk of breast cancer. When the group of sugary drinks was split into fruit juices and other sugary drinks, the consumption of both beverage types was associated with a higher risk of overall cancer. No association was found for prostate and colorectal cancers, but numbers of cases were more limited for these cancer locations. In contrast, the consumption of artificially sweetened (diet) beverages was not associated with a risk of cancer, but the authors warn that caution is needed in interpreting this finding owing to a relatively low consumption level in this sample. Possible explanations for these results include the effect of the sugar contained in sugary drinks on visceral fat (stored around vital organs such as the liver and pancreas), blood sugar levels, and inflammatory markers, all of which are linked to increased cancer risk. Other chemical compounds, such as additives in some sodas might also play a role, they add. This is an observational study, so can't establish cause, and the authors say they cannot rule out some misclassification of beverages or guarantee detection of every new cancer case.

Study suggests possible link between sugary drinks and cancer

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Substitute Your Drinks with These Healthy Choices

Substitute Your Drinks with These #Healthy Choices #athelio #fitness

Quenching thirst is vital for us in order to not have our mouth dried up and feeling fatigued. What is the first thing we wish to drink when we are parched, possibly a glass of water, and of-course, a all glass of nice and chilled fizzy drink.

There are infinite choices of what we can drink, all being more delicious than the other. But which one provides nutrition and which neglects your health…

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Teenagers In The UK Are Downing Almost A Bathtub Full Of Sugary Drinks Each Year

Teenagers In The UK Are Downing Almost A Bathtub Full Of Sugary Drinks Each Year

Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey in the UK has revealed that a teenager drinks almost a bathtub full of sugar filled drinks each year.

Sugary drinks or soft drinks refers to any beverage with added sugar like sodas, sports and energy drinks and even fruit punch and lemonades.

The Data

According to the data, teenagers between the ages of 11-18 are drinking approximately 234 cans…

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Under the guise of sweet charitable giving, soda makers are handing out millions to big name health organizations so that the groups stay quiet about health issues that threaten to slim down drink profits—not to mention Americans themselves—a new study suggests.

Between 2011 and 2015, Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo sponsored 96 national health organizations, including the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the American Society for Nutrition, researchers report in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. Meanwhile, lobbyists for the beverage makers successfully campaigned against nearly 20 proposed state and federal regulations aimed at protecting public health, such as improvements to nutrition labeling and soda taxes.

The pop makers' efforts to defeat public health policies casts doubt on the sincerity of their charitable giving to health groups. But the sponsorships alone are concerning, according to the study authors, Daniel Aaron and Michael Siegel of Boston University. Earlier studies have found that “sponsorships of health organizations can have a nefarious impact on public health,” they wrote, noting the efforts of Big Tobacco decades ago. Sponsors may directly or indirectly—through feelings of indebtedness—get an organization to take on their interests. As such, the Federal Trade Commission considers sponsorships a marketing tool. All in all, Aaron and Siegel conclude that the soda sponsorships “are likely to serve marketing functions, such as to dampen health groups’ support of legislation that would reduce soda consumption and improve soda companies’ public image,” they wrote.

Though the authors don’t prove that the soda sponsorships have resulted in “nefarious” effects, there’s plenty of reasons to buy the argument. For instance, in 2010, the charity Save the Childrenstunned colleagues and health professionals by abruptly dropping support for a soda tax—a policy the organization had been fiercely supporting as part of a campaign to combat childhood obesity. The turnabout occurred after the organization received more than $5 million from Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo, though the charity’s executives denied the connection.

Similarly, in 2012 and 2013, the NAACP, which runs a Coca-Cola-funded health program and has close ties to soda makers, firmly opposed Mayor Bloomberg’s soda portion size limit for New York City. The stance was in spite of the fact that African American’s in the city suffer higher than average rates of obesity.

Last year The New York Times uncovered financial links between Coca-Cola and the research group, Global Energy Balance Network, run out of the University of Colorado. The researchers willfully downplayed the role of sugary beverages in poor health and obesity and shifted focus to a need for more exercise. The group has since disbanded and Coca-Cola’s chief scientist stepped down following the revelation.

And just last month, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco dug up evidence that sugar industry executives wrote fat checks to Harvard researchers in the 1960s to downplay the role of sugar in heart disease. Instead the researchers placed the blame solely on excess saturated fat—a scheme that skewed health policy and dietary guidelines for decades.

Despite such highly publicized examples of industry's meddling in health campaigns and policy, the new study by Aaron and Siegel is the first to try to capture the extent of the problem. The researchers sifted through financial disclosures on scientific literature, websites, and news reports, plus a database that tracks lobbying spending. The researchers wrote that their tally of 96 health organizations sponsored is likely an underestimate, given the potential for undisclosed funding plus the fact that they only looked for national—not state or local—health organizations.

Still, they conclude, the results show an extensive relationship between soda makers and health organizations, which have a lot of sway on policies and laws. “It is recommended that organizations find alternative sources of revenue in order to stop indirectly and inadvertently increasing soda consumption and causing substantial harm to Americans,” they conclude.

In 2009, the average American consumed 46 gallons of soda, giving the US the highest per capita consumption rate of the sugary beverages of any country. Meanwhile, about 38 percent of US adults and 17 percent of children are obese. Recent research has estimated that sugary drinks were responsible for a fifth of American’s weight gain.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.08.010  (About DOIs).

(via Big soda is buying off big health orgs to keep profits and Americans fat | Ars Technica)

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Protect Your Teeth From Sugary Drinks

Protect Your Teeth From Sugary Drinks

Who doesn’t enjoy a nice cold glass of juice, or soda, after a decent meal? However, there are a great deal of consequences when consuming soft drinks that could be harmful to your teeth.

Many soft drinks have a low pH level that make the mouth very acidic. Acids and sugars in soft drinks cause the enamel on teeth to erode. Enamel is the outer layer of a tooth that protects it, so once the enamel…

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I've been drinking powerade and brewed hot tea for the last four days.

Note I don't put sugar in my tea. I use lemon and honey instead. Didn't feel like making tea or drinking the remaining flavors of powerade; last option was fruit punch juice from brisk. Bad idea. Drank maybe like 4 oz....strongly considering putting the rest of this down the drain....eww

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Phoenix, AZ - 3/20

I couldn't get a read on Phoenix. Is it LA? The Midwest? Riding across Tucson in Angela's Grand Prix? We spent the morning leaving and driving and watching the valley peel back its layers: Anthem's sleepy suburbs. Cheesy, fancy Scottsdale. Dusty, overcast working class parts of Phoenix. At the Biltmore, I drank vodka, lavender, and lemonade; my grandma had a piña colada. It was strange and peaceful to stand in the open, artificial golf range; to get bathed in March sun; to press up against beautiful old buildings. But my read wasn't any better--what and why here? We left south, then southwest through the desert's green flames of creosote, through the hot agricultural fields. I flitted the radio between Mexican polkas and Christian pop until the signals faded to static. Eventually, we dried out.