Sweetened Fruit Drinks Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk

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Using findings which came from a look at nearly 44,000 black women in the United States who were checked from 1995 through 2005, Julie Palmer and colleagues at Boston University wrote in their report, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, that sweetened fruit drinks, which are often marketed as a healthier alternative to non-diet soft drinks, are just as likely to cause weight gain and increase the risk of diabetes.

Those who said they drank two or more non-diet soft drinks a day had a 24 percent increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes than those in the study who drank fewer than one regular soft drink per month, and women who drank two or more sweetened fruit drinks per day had a 31 percent increased risk compared to those who drank fewer than one such fruit drink a month.

However, drinks such as diet soft drinks, grapefruit juice and orange juice were not linked to a higher diabetes risk according to the researchers.

Dr. Mark Feinglos of the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, said: “The common denominator that appears clear is that calories trump everything. And certain nutrients, like high fructose corn syrup, make it easier to overeat.”

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Sweetened Fruit Drinks Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk | 29 July 2008, 08:58
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