New Finding: Sugary Drinks Kill
OK. So we know they're bad for us, NYC's Bloomberg's tried to put an end to them. But did you know they can kill us? A Harvard s tudy has just found that 180,000 people a year die worldwide, and 25,000 in the U.S., from sugary drinks. "We know that sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to obesity, and that a large number of deaths are caused by obesity-related diseases. But until now, nobody had really put these pieces together," said Gitanjali Singh, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study presented today at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in New Orleans, Bay News 9 reports. The study adds to "mounting evidence that sugar-sweetened beverages, loaded with calories that carry little nutritional value, are a public health hazard," the story notes. You may want to argue the facts a little "but the team tied sugar-sweetened beverages to 133,000 deaths from...