What NOT to drink, apparently.

Thirsty for good health? I just posted an article here on coffee as a healthy drink, and immediately ran into this CNN piece highlighting research on soda. These are data from Harvard, and it’s crazy. 

Get this: 
Sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to more than 180,000 obesity-related deaths worldwide each year, according to new research presented this week at an American Heart Association conference.

“This means about one in every 100 deaths from obesity-related diseases is caused by drinking sugary beverages,” says study author Gitanjali Singh, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

It sounds like what they’re saying is NOT that sodas kill you. However, if your goal is to become obese, they can definitely help you with that. If you want to “live large”, “go big or go home”, turn to sugar sweetened beverages to help you out there. 

As you approach your massiveness objective, you’re more and more likely to die of a heart attack. What the Harvard guys did is the rigorous epidemiology math to show that your death will be linked directly to the sodas you consumed to get you there. 

Make sense? 

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From the CNN story: 
Recently the American Heart Association came out with a scientific statement about sugar intake and heart health because it says there is new evidence about the relationship between the two. The statement says some research has found a link between sugar consumption and cardiovascular disease, while other research has not found a direct link.

The AHA says that the best way to maintain a healthy weight and to decrease the risk of heart disease is to eat a healthy diet and to limit added sugar to no more than 100 calories a day for women and 150 for men.

Soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the main source of added sugars in the American diet, according to the statement. One 12-ounce regular soda contains the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar and has about 140 calories.

Sugary drinks linked to 180,000 deaths worldwide – CNN.com

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