Soft drinks and diabetic

Soft drinks associated with diabetes,report finds,,,,,

A review of published studies shows a clear and consistent relationship(non-diet) soft drinks and poor nutrition,increased risk for obesity-and increased for diabetes.

There is no denying that sugar-loaded soft drinks are having"a negative impact on health,"Dr.Kelly Brownell,director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University in new Haven,Connecticut,said in a telephone interview with Reuters Health.

Having analyzed and reviewed 88 studies on his colleagues conclude that recommendation to curb soft drink consumption on population level are strongly supported by the available scientific evidence.

Results of study of more 91,000 women followed for eight years one of the "most striking" links between soft drinks and health out comes,the investigators note in the American Journal of Public Health.

in The study,women who drank one or more sodas per day-an amount less than the US national average-were twice as likely as those who drank less than one soda per month to develop diabetes over the course of the study.When diet soda replaced regular soda in the analysis,there was no increased risk,"suggesting that the risk was specific to sugar sweetened soft drinks," note the authors.

Further more,there was a "remarkable difference" in results from industry-funded and non industry funded studies on soft drink consumption and health out comes,(Megan Rauscher,Reuters.The daily star Kuwait.14-march-2007).