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  1. Aug 15, '08 by alan007
    http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/...etes-risk.html

    July 28 (HealthDay News) -- Packing on the pounds by drinking too many sugary drinks and not eating enough fruits and veggies appears to be associated with increased risk for type 2 diabetes, while a low-fat diet doesn't alter your risk of developing the blood sugar disease.

    That's the conclusion of three studies published in the July 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Obesity is one of the strongest risk factors for developing diabetes. By 2030, 11.2 percent of the adult population in the United States is expected to suffer from type 2 diabetes, according to the journal report.

    In one study, Julie R. Palmer, a professor of epidemiology at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, and her colleagues looked at the association between type 2 diabetes and drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks. For the study, Palmer's team collected data on 43,960 black women, 2,713 of whom developed type 2 diabetes during 10 years of follow-up.

    "Drinking sweetened soft drinks or fruit drinks was associated with an increased risk of developing diabetes," Palmer said. "Specifically, women who drank two or more soft drinks per day or two or more fruit drinks per day had a 25 to 30 percent increased risk of diabetes. Drinking diet soft drinks did not increase risk."

    Both soft drinks and fruit drinks, if consumed frequently, will increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. The main mechanism seems to be through their effects on weight gain, Palmer said. "Reducing consumption of these beverages may be a concrete way to reduce weight gain and prevent diabetes," she said.

    "Fruit drinks, which are increasingly being consumed by the U.S. population, are not a healthy alternative to soft drinks, at least with regard to risk of type 2 diabetes," Palmer said. "Fruit drinks typically contain as many or more calories as soft drinks and, like soft drinks, may not decrease satiety to the same extent as solid foods."
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  3. Aug 15, '08 by randeg1
    You are right to say that diet plays a role in increasing the risk to develop diabetes. Fruit drinks especially are a misnomer. Because we see that fruit is in the name, we tend to think they are healthy for us and that we can drink as much as we can and we will be okay. This is a misconception because not only do they have lots of calories but also they contain a lot of sugar.

    Evelyn Guzman

    http://www.free-symptoms-of-diabetes-alert.com (If you want to visit, just click but if it doesn’t work, copy and paste it onto your browser.)
  4. Aug 15, '08 by HM2VikingRN
    The real evil of these drinks is the reliance on high fructose sugar as a sweetener. Your body does not recognize that it has had enough calories with fructose which leads to binge eating which leads to weight gain which ends in diabetes.
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  5. Aug 16, '08 by MisterSimba
    "Packing on the pounds by drinking too many sugary drinks and not eating enough fruits and veggies appears to be associated with increased risk for type 2 diabetes, while a low-fat diet doesn't alter your risk of developing the blood sugar disease........That's the conclusion of THREE studies published in the July 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Obesity is one of the strongest risk factors for developing diabetes."

    Wow.....it took three studies to come to this common-sense conclusion? Interesting...... Next, they'll tell us that smoking a pack a day may cause lung cancer, and that living on fast food may contribute to heart disease.......
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  6. Aug 16, '08 by MisterSimba
    Quote from HM2Viking
    The real evil of these drinks is the reliance on high fructose sugar as a sweetener. Your body does not recognize that it has had enough calories with fructose which leads to binge eating which leads to weight gain which ends in diabetes.
    Yeah, and high fructose corn syrup pops up in the most random places! I was looking at the ingredients on my yogurt a while back, and it contained high fructose corn syrup! Ewww!
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  7. Aug 16, '08 by HM2VikingRN
    I come from a farm state. Turning corn into fructose supports agriculture but I really believe we need to get it if not banned then limited as a percentage of calories in food.
  8. Aug 16, '08 by HM2VikingRN
    The sad thing is that it is almost impossible to eliminate fructose as a food additive from you diet.
  9. Aug 16, '08 by nightmare
    The significant word missing from the article is...carbohydrate..Eating too much carbohydrate pushes up the incidence of insulin resistance which in turn is the cause of type 2 diabetes.All the ' oses' are carbohydrate,sugars in other words.Even the low fat foods ,if you look at the packaging ,you will find that they often have more carbohydrate than the ' normal' alternative to low fat.
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  10. Aug 17, '08 by rdl50
    wow,, back to nature is the best.
    lets start consume fresh fruits
  11. Aug 21, '08 by Bluehair
    Quote from HM2Viking
    The sad thing is that it is almost impossible to eliminate fructose as a food additive from you diet.
    I buy 'low carb' versions of anything I can. Generally speaking, they are higher in fiber and remove all the 'oses' (fructose/glucose/etc.) so they can wear the low carb label. I'm not following the Atkins thing, just trying to find things like ketchup, BBQ sauce, etc. that aren't loaded up with some version of sugar!