Daily Mail
Experts: Sugary drinks could be causing 200,000 deaths a year worldwide
They linked the drinks to 133,000 deaths from diabetes, 44,000 from heart disease and 6,000 from cancer.
The vast majority – 78 per cent of the deaths – occurred in low and middle-income countries rather than rich countries.
Although a causal link cannot be proved, sugar-sweetened drinks are known to contribute to excess body weight which in turn increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
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Still less than abortion, right?
Cindy Munford on March 20, 2013 at 10:37 PM
how many deaths has the NHS caused?
tom daschle concerned on March 20, 2013 at 10:39 PM
I’d like to know what food kills diet and mortality “experts”. We need lots more of that.
My G-d, these people are just howling mad. They should be on leashes, these lefty experts.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on March 20, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Which is why I prefer Death By Chocolate
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on March 20, 2013 at 10:41 PM
We’re just gonna go ahead and pretend there is one.
clearbluesky on March 20, 2013 at 10:41 PM
What a pile of crap.
Two points:
1. Shut.
2. Up.
Mimzey on March 20, 2013 at 10:45 PM
Well it’s a shame, then, that Jones grape soda and Fentiman’s Curiosity Cola are so damn good.
mintycrys on March 20, 2013 at 10:45 PM
… expert Joe Biden claimed right after he walked the car, waxed the dog, brushed his shoes and shined his teeth.
viking01 on March 20, 2013 at 10:46 PM
I love sweet ice tea… but hated almost all of the artificial sweeteners…
until Truvia. Truvia is awesome… there are a few health nuts griping about it about it not being “all natural”, but I’ve tried generic stevia and while it was ok it wasn’t any better than splenda. Truvia is better than sugar IMO, while splenda isn’t quite as good as sugar. There is a splenda/sugar blend that is sold that is ok.
ninjapirate on March 20, 2013 at 10:51 PM
that’s like saying guns kill people.
unseen on March 20, 2013 at 10:54 PM
Seriously? So sugary drinks were the ONLY causation for the above diabetes, heart disease and cancer? This such crap..
melle1228 on March 20, 2013 at 10:55 PM
Wow! That’s almost as bad as the 480 million deaths each year caused by Man-Caused Global Warming™!
RoadRunner on March 20, 2013 at 11:01 PM
Soooooooo…200,000 out of 7 billion is …. is what?
0.000028%?
I’m just not worried yet…
Tim Zank on March 20, 2013 at 11:05 PM
Ta Da!
………………………………..
The big gov types want you to live long enough so they can tell you when you
get towill die.CW on March 20, 2013 at 11:07 PM
I heard Asa Hutchinson in a PBS debate with Nick Gillespie of Reason on drug legalization say that 15,000 people are killed every year by illegal drugs. This bs about sugary drinks puts that in perspective. The question is: how many would die from drugs if it was legal? Probably less. Either way, we turn are nation into a police state employing 500k police officers and twice that many correctional officers in a futile brutal effort to control personal folly. Use education. And accept people have to be responsible for themselves.
Same with sodas. Next thing you know they’ll be saying how many people are killed by fatty / sugary cheesecake and ice cream. Then beef. And white bread. It’s all going to banned, and our daily menu is going to be determined by the new know-it-all heads of nanny nutrition. The only thing the police state would be against would be outlawing donuts. That’d be a no no.
anotherJoe on March 20, 2013 at 11:08 PM
The data are overwhelming… all modern illnesses can be traced directly to laboratory rats.
viking01 on March 20, 2013 at 11:11 PM
I’m still looking for that Coca Cola without the High Fructose Corn Syrup.
OK, “experts,” where is it?
65droptop on March 20, 2013 at 11:12 PM
So, basically, with all the Cherry Coke I’ve consumed, I’ve basically unlocked immortality.
Ok.
Jeddite on March 20, 2013 at 11:13 PM
Communism killed 120 million last century, before big gulps.
wolly4321 on March 20, 2013 at 11:20 PM
People who die of fear incited by storms of bullshit number 300,000 per year.
True fact.
somewhatconcerned on March 20, 2013 at 11:26 PM
Old age kills more people every year – just look at the statistics for the last century.
Can’t the government do something?
Xavier on March 20, 2013 at 11:32 PM
People who die are the leading cause of death.
Fact.
catmman on March 20, 2013 at 11:45 PM
No worries, I know a certain loathsome nanny-state mayor is going to swoop in and heroically save us from ourselves.
Mr. Prodigy on March 20, 2013 at 11:47 PM
slight edit. adjustment. Just that I have about had it with experts.
arnold ziffel on March 20, 2013 at 11:58 PM
I’m still looking for that Coca Cola without the High Fructose Corn Syrup.
OK, “experts,” where is it?
65droptop on March 20, 2013 at 11:12 PM
kosher coke at certain times of the year, and Mexican coke in the glass bottles. The kosher coke has yellow tops on the two liters I believe.
tom daschle concerned on March 21, 2013 at 12:04 AM
HEB here in Texas has decent diet grape, orange, and strawberry sodas. My favorite grape soda, though, is Zevia.
I’m a pretty severe reactive hypoglycemic. Sugar in liquid form hits my system like a ton of bricks, then drops me like a rock. So when I’m drinking sodas (we call them Cokes around here, even if they are not made by Coke), it’s a diet soda.
Sekhmet on March 21, 2013 at 12:20 AM
As opposed to smoking, other calorie/weight inducing items, car accidents, drowning, walking across the street, old age, insert your cause here, etc, etc, etc.
*eye roll*
kim roy on March 21, 2013 at 12:30 AM
Sam’s Club, get it all the time. Many of my local Grocery Stores in Western PA carry it now. I noticed more places started carrying it after a local company (Natrona Bottling) got some free publicity on their operation that makes pop with only pure cane sugar. It’s almost like this micro-brew craze in that there’s a lot of small making pop operations opening everwhere.
reddevil on March 21, 2013 at 12:34 AM
Is this like that study that says a person who smokes and who dies at 95 died because of the smoking and not of old age?
jawkneemusic on March 21, 2013 at 12:35 AM
I think MexiCoke uses real sugar.
eaglescout_1998 on March 21, 2013 at 1:00 AM
There are better cola drinks than Coca-cola that use pure cane sugar and have no HFCS. I mentioned Curiosity Cola up top. By the time I drank my second bottle, I was thoroughly turned off of Coca-cola forever. It can be a bit difficult to find, though, without special ordering it, but it’s worth it now that I’ve been spoiled and can no longer drink plebby canned mass market crap.
mintycrys on March 21, 2013 at 1:21 AM
mintycrys on March 21, 2013 at 1:21 AM
Thanks for that, found the wiki page for it.
65droptop on March 21, 2013 at 2:01 AM
Thanks for your concern and your answer, Tom.
65droptop on March 21, 2013 at 2:03 AM
Tastes like chicken.
HURRY UP!
Shy Guy on March 21, 2013 at 3:36 AM
Dear Experts;
It really doesn’t matter how many of these causes you remove – Everyone will be Dead before the year 2160.
I may not be an Expert, but I’m betting that living 50 years plus an extra 10 years miserable vs. living 50 years enjoyed overall, most people would rather enjoy life than the Existance you’d sentence them to.
jaydee_007 on March 21, 2013 at 5:02 AM
I wonder how many deaths progressives and leftists cause worldwide by making food, energy, and health care more expensive and difficult to obtain?
DRayRaven on March 21, 2013 at 5:49 AM
I’m pretty sure they had no trouble linking several deaths to those high powered assault weapons the Obama administration sold to Mexican drug cartels.
It was just a simple matter of matching up the serial numbers to guns found at crime scenes. But, until more Mexican drug gangs leave the weapons behind at future crime scenes, we may never know for sure how many people will ultimately be murdered.
Yet one thing we know for sure. No guessing or theory. Everyone one of those weapons Obama sold to Mexican drug cartels that is pointed at a victim and fired has the ability to kill, and most likely will. Man, woman or child. Those guns will kill. No guessing about it.
JellyToast on March 21, 2013 at 6:38 AM
Experts:experts should be ignored.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on March 21, 2013 at 7:28 AM
Another argument FOR capitalism and free markets.
BTW: I would guess that the Philippines qualifies as a ‘low income’ country. There are a lot of cases of diabetes and heart disease here. But – I would think the major cause would be a poor diet in general and not just soda. Lots of white rice, which is very bad for blood sugar, and pork – especially the fat – which leads to obesity and heart disease.
I think these ‘scientists’ have a h@rd-on for soda and are bending the facts so hard you can see the stress fractures in the study.
Who paid for this ‘study’ anyway?
Timothy S. Carlson on March 21, 2013 at 7:48 AM
Whoa, now if you compare that to the number of abortions-forced or otherwise, the number of human deaths is infinitesimal. But, then who worries about the slaughter of millions of innocent humans when we can make soda the scapegoat of our problems?
Don L on March 21, 2013 at 8:00 AM
One study pointed out that a large number of males who drowned while boating in Long Island Sound were found with their pant flies open. Now do we blame that on a boating accidents, swimming accidents, fishing accidents, or beverage consuming accidents?
Surprise!
The study proved beyond all doubt that their deaths were caused by the sequester!
Don L on March 21, 2013 at 8:07 AM
Wow! almost a quarter million people die each year out of 6 billion. Stop the slaughter NOW! Wait, don’t these same nannies want to reduce population?
Some of the deaths per year worldwide.
Diarrhea 1,793,000
Malaria 1,103,000
HIV-AIDS 2,678,000
Hunger and poor nutrition 36 million
Statistically, a child under five dies every 5 seconds on average as a direct or indirect result of poor nutrition.
On average 150,000 people die per day. Mostly from old age.
Yeah. We have to really worry about those sugar drinks.
Dr. Frank Enstine on March 21, 2013 at 8:24 AM
200,000 deaths a year worldwide thanks to the supposed evils of sugar, compared to 1.2 MILLION deaths each year, in the U.S. alone, at the hands of democrat-HERO- abortionists like Kermit Gosnell? Yeah, we certainly should focus on sugar.
Pork-Chop on March 21, 2013 at 8:44 AM
Approximately 60 million deaths occur each year worldwide, so even if this ‘study’ was valid, the amount of deaths due to sugary drinks is statistically zero.
RadClown on March 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM
I have the cookbook. The white chocolate cheesecake is fabulous! Come on over, I’ll make you something!
GWB on March 21, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Not Coca Cola, but I drink Pepsi Throwback. And Sierra Mist Natural. No corn syrup in either of those.
GWB on March 21, 2013 at 9:36 AM
I think you might be married to me.
antipc on March 21, 2013 at 9:38 AM
Well then, ban sugar and drinks.
rukiddingme on March 21, 2013 at 10:07 AM
What makes you think that life after 50 is miserable?
Alana on March 21, 2013 at 3:59 PM