Sugary Drinks CAN cause Diabetes ?!?

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BennerLTF_RD
BennerLTF_RD Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
A new study shows that sugary drinks (sweet tea, energy, soda) can increase your chance of developing Type 2 Diabetes by 18% per beverage per day. SOOOO for you soda drinkers out there this means 3 cokes a day could increase your risk by as much as 54%. That is a super scary # when you consider that Diabetes is the leading cause of amputations, blindness and kidney disease in the developed world.
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  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,658 Member
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    Link?
  • 123user456
    123user456 Posts: 68 Member
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    Interesting first post
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
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    Nope.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,394 MFP Moderator
    edited July 2015
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    Link? If someone drinks 3 regular sodas a day, that is like 900 calories of soda. That is a good amount of calories to drink.

    So it could be... increased calories --> increases chances of being obese --> increase chance of diabetes..
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
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    I'd like to see the link too. Is this just a correlation? Because I could believe that.
  • brandi712
    brandi712 Posts: 407 Member
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    oh reeeeallly?
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
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    I think this might be what she's referring to:

    Friendly news article version: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/replacing-one-sugary-drink-per-day-could-cut-risk-of-type-2-diabetes

    Down and dirty science version: http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/files/OConnor.pdf
  • helenrosec1
    helenrosec1 Posts: 82 Member
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    too much of any sugar can increase your risk of diabetes.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    psulemon wrote: »
    Link? If someone drinks 3 regular sodas a day, that is like 900 calories of soda. That is a good amount of calories to drink.

    So it could be... increased calories --> increases chances of being obese --> increase chance of diabetes..

    They "corrected" for overweight, apparently.

    Three 330 ml cans of coca cola in the UK are 105g of sugar and 420 cals so "regular" might be a bit flexible

    The vague epidemiology also concluded that it would be unwise to substitute fruit juice or artificially sweetened soda as these showed some tendency to increase diabetes risk too.
  • slaite1
    slaite1 Posts: 1,307 Member
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    psulemon wrote: »
    Link? If someone drinks 3 regular sodas a day, that is like 900 calories of soda. That is a good amount of calories to drink.

    So it could be... increased calories --> increases chances of being obese --> increase chance of diabetes..

    QFT
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,394 MFP Moderator
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    yarwell wrote: »
    psulemon wrote: »
    Link? If someone drinks 3 regular sodas a day, that is like 900 calories of soda. That is a good amount of calories to drink.

    So it could be... increased calories --> increases chances of being obese --> increase chance of diabetes..

    They "corrected" for overweight, apparently.

    Three 330 ml cans of coca cola in the UK are 105g of sugar and 420 cals so "regular" might be a bit flexible

    The vague epidemiology also concluded that it would be unwise to substitute fruit juice or artificially sweetened soda as these showed some tendency to increase diabetes risk too.

    If it's the same ones at @kgeyser posted, I will have to read those.

    But when I think soda, I automatically think 20oz because it's common in the US.
  • msf74
    msf74 Posts: 3,498 Member
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    Do you mean this study?

    Inter-Act
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    edited July 2015
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    msf74 wrote: »
    Do you mean this study?

    Inter-Act

    that's older work from the same study - it will interest Americans to see a median soda consumption of zero I'm sure ;-)

    kgeyser has the right links for the current news story, it uses 336 grams as a "serving" of SSB which would be a European sized can
  • mom2kpr
    mom2kpr Posts: 348 Member
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    helenrosec1 wrote: »
    too much of any sugar can increase your risk of diabetes.

    Too much sugar doesn't increase your risk of diabetes. Too many calories causing overweight/obesity increases risk of diabetes.
  • msf74
    msf74 Posts: 3,498 Member
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    yarwell wrote: »
    msf74 wrote: »
    Do you mean this study?

    Inter-Act

    that's older work from the same study - it will interest Americans to see a median soda consumption of zero I'm sure ;-)

    kgeyser has the right links for the current news story.

    Ha!

    Thanks for letting me know.
  • helenrosec1
    helenrosec1 Posts: 82 Member
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    mom2kpr wrote: »
    helenrosec1 wrote: »
    too much of any sugar can increase your risk of diabetes.

    Too much sugar doesn't increase your risk of diabetes. Too many calories causing overweight/obesity increases risk of diabetes.

    My Doctor must have lied to me then, because I asked him about eating too much sugar, even in fruits and he told me too much can cause diabetes so try cut it down.
  • brandi712
    brandi712 Posts: 407 Member
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    helenrosec1 wrote: »
    mom2kpr wrote: »
    helenrosec1 wrote: »
    too much of any sugar can increase your risk of diabetes.

    Too much sugar doesn't increase your risk of diabetes. Too many calories causing overweight/obesity increases risk of diabetes.

    My Doctor must have lied to me then, because I asked him about eating too much sugar, even in fruits and he told me too much can cause diabetes so try cut it down.

    But how much is too much? Did your doctor say? I am curious about this because my dad has developed diabetes and before my donation surgery, they did so much testing to see if I was likely to develop diabetes when I get older. Thanks. Oh and my dad is not even close to being overweight...

  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,394 MFP Moderator
    edited July 2015
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    helenrosec1 wrote: »
    mom2kpr wrote: »
    helenrosec1 wrote: »
    too much of any sugar can increase your risk of diabetes.

    Too much sugar doesn't increase your risk of diabetes. Too many calories causing overweight/obesity increases risk of diabetes.

    My Doctor must have lied to me then, because I asked him about eating too much sugar, even in fruits and he told me too much can cause diabetes so try cut it down.

    There are some links that sugary drinks cause diabetes, but I would ask, is it the sugary drinks or is it the obesity. The bigger issue, sugary drinks have a lot of calories and don't provide much nutrition and doesn't fill you up, making it very easy to increase caloric intake.


    http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/myths/
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    edited July 2015
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    ignore me - I'm not getting involved
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    "In the new study, the authors also found that if study participants had replaced a habitual daily 330ml serving of soft drinks with a serving of water or unsweetened tea or coffee, the risk of diabetes could have been cut by 14% - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/replacing-one-sugary-drink-per-day-could-cut-risk-of-type-2-diabetes#sthash.szWBKLSR.dpuf "

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