Soft Drinks And Fruit Drinks And Risk For Diabetes In African-American Women Linked By Study

Get them out of the study and break the link.

"Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in African-American women. These findings appear in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine."

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes.

"The researchers note that while there has been increasing public awareness of the adverse health effects of soft drinks, little attention has been given to fruit drinks, which often are marketed as a healthier alternative to soft drinks.

'Fruit drinks were consumed more frequently than soft drinks in our study, and the proportion of total energy intake from fruit drinks in the U.S. population doubled from 1977 to 2001,' said lead author Julie Palmer, ScD, a professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. 'The public should be made aware that these drinks are not a healthy alternative to soft drinks with regard to risk of type 2 diabetes,' she added."

You do not get fat from fruit drinks, soft drinks, etc.

You get fat from more Calories in than out.