Can you remember what you drank yesterday?
Maybe you started your day with coffee and your favorite creamer. Then lunch came with an iced tea or soda. Dinner, you might stick with water or perhaps a nice glass of wine.
Sound familiar?
Well, you might consider cutting all that out of your daily habits. As it turns out, sugary drinks may be the biggest culprit in diabetes.
Reduction in Sugary Drinks Leads to Reduction in Diabetes
There is a global campaign for a sugar tax, a tax that would target sugary drinks and packaged foods. The idea behind the campaign is to discourage people from buying these sugary foods.
Why?
Because there is sufficient evidence that these sugary drinks almost certainly lead to diabetes.The hard evidence linking sugary drink consumption and diabetes comes from The Thai Cohort Study. The researchers examined a national sample population of 400,000 participants. They found that sugary drink consumption and diabetes both increased and decreased together, regardless of weight gain or even obesity.
Rather than treating a lifelong disease and suffering the damaging effects, just cut out sugary drinks (or so the campaign goes).
In fact, in the US and in Mexico, there is already a sugar tax. The two countries closely monitored the data to follow the implementation of the tax.
They both found that the tax reduced the total purchases of sugary drinks by 17 to 21 percent in low-income households.
The sugar tax worked exactly as they had hoped.
The global campaign is an important one since diabetes kills millions of people every year. If there is a clear and simple way to prevent this, then the effort must be done to do so.
You don’t have to be a part of the campaign to benefit from its findings, though. Do your part right now and cut out sodas and sugary teas, starting today!
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