6mo ago

Scientists Quantified The Harm of Sugary Drinks, And It's Devastating

www.sciencealert.com

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This was news like 20+ years ago and here we still are.
- here we still are.
  Not the ones who got type 2 diabetes 20+ years ago
  
  Diabeetus!
So other than destroying your teeth, it sounds like the conclusion here is more or less that being overweight is unhealthy and overweight people tend to drink sugary drinks. It's just empty calories. If you're naturally lean despite drinking sugar-sweetened drinks then the negative health effects of it are probably significantly lower.
Personally, I just tend to consume mostly artificially sweetened drinks. It takes the edge off when I desire something sweet and to get any significant negative health effects from aspartamine you'd need to be consuming insane amounts of it.
- Drinking too many of these drinks too often can lead to weight gain and insulin resistance
  This sounds like insulin resistance could happen additionally to weight gain.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29159583/
  Artificial sweeteners appear to change the host microbiome, lead to decreased satiety, and alter glucose homeostasis, and are associated with increased caloric consumption and weight gain.
Drinking soda is like drinking alcohol... But it is socially acceptable to shit on people who consume only of the alcohol.
Hmm
I guess drinking and driving is bad PR
- Alcohol is incredibly worse, and it's much less accepted to criticize it. This is inept.
  
  In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda. It has similar calories but they’re not entirely empty - different drinks have different advantages. For example beer tends to have vitamin b and a small amount of fiber, whereas soda is completely empty.
  Alcohol is detrimental in different ways, especially when you have more than one
  
  Sugar kills more and more people are certified land whales.
- I'm talking shit about the bubble tea and coke by the gallon slurping fatties all the time, just a matter of your audience.

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