WARNING: SUGARED DRINKS ARE INJURIOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!

According to latest research sugared beverages are the leading source of added sugar in the diet of young Americans. In his book, The World is Fat, Barry Popkin claims that the average American gets 400 calories a day from beverages alone.

One study referred to America's obsession with sugared drinks as "America's hidden drinking problem," with four out of five children and two out of three adults drinking sugar-sweetened beverages daily, whether sodas, sugary waters or so-called sports drinks.

Keeping in view the above referred research it is said that:

"'You are what you drink' may be truer than 'you are what you eat,'"

In addition to being a major contributor to weight gain, there is now strong evidence that sugary drinks are linked to "diabesity" and heart disease in women. Recent studies show that women who have one or more servings of a sugary drink per day have nearly double the diabetes risk of women who rarely have sugar drinks and that women who have more than two servings of sugary beverages a day have a nearly 40% higher risk of heart disease. And artificially sweetened beverages may pose their own health problems. A long-term study of 3700 people showed that those who averaged three or more artificially sweetened beverages a day were more likely to have gained weight over an eight-year period than those who didn't drink artificially sweetened beverages.