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OKIsItJustMe

(22,110 posts) Mon Mar 12, 2012, 04:55 PM Mar 2012

Sugar-sweetened drinks linked to increased risk of heart disease in men

http://newsroom.heart.org/pr/aha/sugar-sweetened-drinks-linked-230144.aspx

[font face=Times, Times New Roman, Serif][font size=5]Sugar-sweetened drinks linked to increased risk of heart disease in men[/font]

March 12, 2012

[font size=3]Study Highlights:

Men who drank one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a 20 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to men who did not drink any sugar-sweetened drinks.
Daily sugar-sweetened drink consumption was also linked to higher levels of harmful lipids in the blood and inflammation.
Artificially sweetened beverages did not increase heart-disease risk in this study.

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DALLAS, March 12, 2012 — Men who drank a 12-ounce sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a 20 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to men who didn’t drink any sugar-sweetened drinks, according to research published in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal.

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Sugar-sweetened drinks linked to increased risk of heart disease in men (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 OP

man they are slowly telling me everything is gonna give me heart disease. Robeysays Mar 2012 #1

That's ok because when they privatize Social Security that's all you'll be able to afford. denverbill Mar 2012 #2

Saltines? Are you crazy? Silent3 Mar 2012 #6

Didn't they say just a few weeks ago that diet soda caused cancer? julian09 Mar 2012 #3

Bad headline. Should read Associated with, MineralMan Mar 2012 #4

Association is not causation OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #5

This has noting to do with tobacco companies and MineralMan Mar 2012 #7

Robeysays

(673 posts)

1. man they are slowly telling me everything is gonna give me heart disease.

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 04:57 PM

Mar 2012

when i retire all i'll be allowed to eat by then will be saltines and water.

denverbill

(11,489 posts)

2. That's ok because when they privatize Social Security that's all you'll be able to afford.

Reply to Robeysays (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 05:06 PM

Mar 2012

Silent3

(15,909 posts)

6. Saltines? Are you crazy?

Reply to Robeysays (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 10:34 AM

Mar 2012

All of that sodium and bleached, refined flour? Might as well just put a gun to your head and pull the trigger!

julian09

(1,435 posts)

3. Didn't they say just a few weeks ago that diet soda caused cancer?

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 08:19 PM

Mar 2012

we lose either way.

MineralMan

(151,544 posts)

4. Bad headline. Should read Associated with,

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 08:38 PM

Mar 2012

not Linked with. There's a difference. You know what's also associated with drinking sugar-sweetened drinks? Eating a crappy diet and being sedentary. Association is not causation. Never has been; never will be.

OKIsItJustMe

(22,110 posts)

5. Association is not causation

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 10:30 AM

Mar 2012

True!

This is exactly what the tobacco companies maintained for years…

MineralMan

(151,544 posts)

7. This has noting to do with tobacco companies and

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:09 PM

Mar 2012

what they said. It has to do with scientific methodology. Logical error.

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