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Does Increase in Sugary Drink Consumption Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk? Are Artificial Sweeteners Also A Problem?
According to a study published Oct. 3 in the journal Diabetes Care, people who increase their consumption of sweet drinks, such as fruit juice or beverages with added sugar, are at increased risk of developing diabetes.
Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier of Harvard University's Chan Department of Public Health and colleagues; analyzed the data of 76,531 women in the Nurses' Health-I (1986-2012) study, 81,597 women in the Nurses' Health-II (1991-2013) study, and 34,224 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986-2012), to calculate the changes in beverage consumption. They used the data of the food frequency questionnaire applied once a year.
During a follow-up of 2,783,210 person-years, the researchers found 11,906 cases of type 2 diabetes, and that total sugary beverage consumption (including sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice) increased by more than half a serving per day over the next four years resulted in an increased risk of diabetes adjusted for BMI and other changes in diet and lifestyle by 16%. In addition, it has been reported that increasing the consumption of artificially sweetened beverages to more than half a serving per day increases the risk of diabetes by 18%. They found that consuming water, coffee, or tea instead of one serving of sugary drinks a day reduces the risk of diabetes by 2 to 10%. However, no risk reduction was found when this change was made with artificial sweeteners.
As a result, it has been proven with this research that the risk of type 2 diabetes will increase when the consumption of sugary or artificial sweetened drinks is increased.
Source: Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier, Yan Zheng, Yanping Li, Vasanti Malik, An Pan, Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju, Deirdre K. Tobias, JoAnn E. Manson, Walter C. Willett and Frank B. Hu. Changes in Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results From Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohorts of Women and Men. Diabetes Care October 03, 2019; dc190734.(https://doi.org/10.2337/dc19-0734)