Soda Linked To Diabetes

Written by RJ Elliott
Published August 26, 2004

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Researchers have linked daily consumption of sugary soft drinks and fruit punches to significant weight gain and a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.

For their study, Harvard School of Public Health researchers tracked 91,249 healthy women from 1991 to 1999. They found women who drank one or more sugar-sweetened soft drinks a day gained more weight than those who drank less than one a month and their risk of developing type 2 diabetes increased by 83 percent.

GASP!

You actually mean to tell me that consuming massive quantities of carbonated sugar-water might actually lead to Type Two Diabetes?

I am shocked, SHOCKED, by this earth-shattering revelation!

The next thing you'll tell me is that inhaling the smoke from burnt tobacco leaves twenty or more times per day for twenty or more years might lead to damage to the lungs!

Surely such things are nearly impossible to believe.

Just like the idea that sending young boys out into the woods all weekend with openly homosexual troop-leaders might be potentially dangerous.

These things simply cannot be believed!


RJ is a graduate student at the University of Central Florida. His passions in life are sports, politics, nature, and women who have piercings they never told their daddy about. He dislikes daytime television, left-wing dictators, and people who talk like Garrison Keillor. His favorite cheese is Havarti.
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Published: August 26, 2004
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#1 — August 26, 2004 @ 03:34AM — bhw [URL]

Just like the idea that sending young boys out into the woods all weekend with openly homosexual troop-leaders might be potentially dangerous.

For the last friggin' time: homosexuality and pedophilia are NOT the same thing.

#2 — August 26, 2004 @ 05:20AM — Padhraic

Soda has also been linked to homosexual
Al-Queda members IN Iraq.

Please God, won't someone stop the buggery.

#3 — August 26, 2004 @ 05:31AM — Shark

RJ, seriously, man, leave the satire to somebody who knows what the word means.

Brilliant, funny, sardonic commentary is not your forte.

Stick to stuff you're good at... like reptile identification, smearing Kerry, and equating liberals with terrorists.

Just tryin' to be helpful.


#4 — August 26, 2004 @ 05:35AM — Shark

By the way:

seeing that most Americans drink soda like H2O -- and that Diabetes is a growing, deadly epidemic in this country -- any study that explicitly defines the risks for an incredibly uninformed public is probably not worth mocking -- especially 'badly'.

#5 — August 26, 2004 @ 11:11AM — RedTard

Where can I sign up for the lawsuit?

#6 — August 26, 2004 @ 14:02PM — Albanian_roots

I have an idea... now that we "know" that sweetened drinks cause health issues. I think the gov't should jump in and ban all ads from playgrounds and childrens TV. They can only be shown during Blue TV hours, past 10pm... wait most parents don't have there kids go to sleep early anyway so they can all watch reality TV programming where everying is faked sexual tension.

Maybe we can put on warning labels that these "drinks may cause diabetes or fatness". No, people dont read anymore.

Okay, how about we sue the Hawiian punch people for making him too kid friendly and defamation of indegenious people... and the kool aid guy for making fun of fat guys with odd shaped heads. Damn, we can't sue Kool-Aid... most Americans are becoming the fat guy with odd shaped heads.

Damn.. what can we do. I got an idea and this may be radical thinking here, but why don't the parents take care and watch what they give their kids... and maybe even care where they are at night or how they use the internet... or even talk to them as a parent not as a buddy... I guess to take responsibility for their own children rather than blame others for their own laziness. Hmmm, nah it wont. Just sue some fuckers and get it over with.

Hey.. we can sue that pillsbury dough boy guy.. not too weight challenged and he's white, I say fair game babies!

#7 — August 26, 2004 @ 16:32PM — Eric Olsen

Too hard on RJ - his point is that most studies "prove" really really obvious common sense points that every dumbass already knows, or should know; but bhw is right, and Shark is also right that it doesn't hurt to remind people of this really really obvious stupid shit, which in turn RJ has helped do, if in a flippant manner.

#8 — August 26, 2004 @ 16:49PM — JR

These points need to be scientifically proven because every dumbass knows a lot of really really obvious common sense things that aren't true.

#9 — August 26, 2004 @ 17:17PM — Eric Olsen

As a test case, I asked the 4 year-old if a steady diet of sugar-water is good for you.

She said, "No, unless you're a hummingbird."

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