Definitive Link Found between Drinking Soda and Obesity, Diabetes

Definitive Link Found between Drinking Soda and Obesity, Diabetes: Many people know that drinking soda is bad for you. At the very least, the extra calories and sugar (mainly high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS) don’t do great things for your waistline. Now, new research has shown that drinking soda causes more than 130,000 new cases of diabetes each year. This stunning fact, presented at the American Heart Association’s Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention annual conference, should be of concern to everyone, considering the billions of health care dollars that are spent each year on treating diabetes. Reducing or eliminating pop consumption can have a direct, positive effect on your health. Diabetes UK