Carbonated soft drinks allegedly "killed" 180,000 people a year





Sweetened sodas are related to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide due to growing as a result of excessive use of diabetes of the second type. Of the 15 most populated countries in the world the highest level of deaths recorded in Mexico - 318 per 1 000 000 adult residents. The lowest level - in Japan, ten deaths per million.

Experts from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, expressed the view that soda and sugar, for example, "Coca-Cola" and "Fanta", increases the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Spent their new study makes it possible to estimate how big this problem is, however, prove that drinks are a cause of death, the study still can not. Scientists emphasize that they are only part of the unhealthy eating habits that contribute to poor health in general.

Adults are recommended to drink sweetened drinks no more than 450 calories a week, with a diet based on 2000 calories a day.

via factroom.ru

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