A recent Danish birth cohort study investigated the relation
between soft drink consumption, but not total free sugar intake, during pregnancy and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis [10].
Dr. Kelly Brownell of Yale University did a systematic review and meta - analysis of 88 studies about the association
between soft drink consumption and health outcomes5.
The correlation
between soft drink consumption and cancer was present independent of obesity.
Although this study can not identify the exact nature of the association
between soft drink consumption and problem behaviors, limiting or eliminating a child's soft drink consumption may reduce behavioral problems.
Not exact matches
In terms of substitution effects, the major difference
between our estimates and those from the US is that our data indicate that diet
soft drinks are a substitute for sugar sweetened
drinks, whereas US data suggest that diet
soft drinks are a complement (as the price of sugar sweetened
drinks goes up,
consumption of diet
drinks goes down).18 22 This may explain why a US tax on sugar sweetened
drinks has been so heavily resisted, as a «double whammy» on sales of both diet
soft drinks and sugar sweetened
drinks would occur.18.
While an increasing number of research studies point to the health benefits in controlling and reducing sugar
consumption — the FDA now recommends sugar make up no more than ten percent of total calories consumed per day — there is a difference
between sugars that occur naturally in foods and those that do not, like those in a piece of dried fruit, for example, versus the high fructose syrup commonly added to
soft drinks, sodas, and many processed foods.
In the current study, we provide novel data on changes in the availability of added and refined sugars and in recorded intakes of total sugars, added sugars, SSB, carbonated
soft drinks, juices, confectionery, and alcohol
consumption in Australian adults and children
between the 2 most recent national dietary surveys in 1995 and 2011 — 2012.
Biliary Cancer (Liver + Gallbladder): This large study of over 70,000 men examined sugary beverage
consumption and found that sweetened
drinks led to a higher risk of gallbladder cancer, while another analysis of 477,206 people from 10 European countries discovered a link
between soft drinks and hepatocellular carcinoma.
«Unfortunately, there are factual errors in the economist's arguments, and misinterpretation of the distinctions
between total sugars vs. refined sugars, sugar availability vs. apparent
consumption, sugar - sweetened and diet
soft drinks, and other nutrition information ``: http://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/JBM-AWB-AustralianParadox.pdf via http://www.glycemicindex.com/