A new study published in the American Heart Association’s Circulation Journal has revealed that Sugary drinks are killing 184,000 adults around the world every year, and should be eliminated from people’s diets.
The Times of India reported that the study drew on 62 dietary surveys including more than 611,000 people conducted between 1980 and 2010 across 51 countries – representing almost two thirds of the world’s adult population.
Dr Dariush Mozaffarian, senior author of the study and Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University in Boston said “the findings indicate the need for population based efforts to reduce SSB consumption throughout the world through effective health policies and targeted interventions directed at stemming obesity-related disease.”
“The study was conducted by an international team of researchers from Harvard, Tufts and Washington universities in the US, and Imperial College London in the UK.
“Many countries in the world have a significant number of deaths occurring from a single dietary factor, sugar-sweetened beverages. It should be a global priority to substantially reduce or eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages from the diet.
“There are no health benefits from sugar-sweetened beverages, and the potential impact of reducing consumption is saving tens of thousands of deaths each year.”
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