Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by novalis78 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:47PM (#8489436)

Notwithstanding the golden "correlation != causation" adage, I found that only two things are truly consumed in much larger quantities in America than any other country I know: soda and high fructose corn syrup...at the same time being the only country with a 35% obesity rate...hmmmm

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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by vonmoltke on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @05:59PM (#8490386)

Oh really?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/mexico-obesity_n_35...

Relevant numbers from the article:

US obesity rate: 31.8% Mexican obesity rate: 32.8%

Also, Mexican soda exclusively uses cane sugar. I buy Mexican Coke for the new times I drink regular soda for that reason.

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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by adventured on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @07:39PM (#8490798)

Not true. Saudi Arabia is the most obese country on earth, at 70%.

Britain, Australia, and New Zealand are also substantially obese. All of those are coming increasingly close to catching America in obesity, with their obesity levels exploding higher.

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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by kissickas on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @07:39AM (#8492245)

Here's the latest data I know of on this:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi/components/...

The United States comes in at 8th highest obesity rate, after Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, South Africa, and Mexico.

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