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Sugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Annual Deaths around the World
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2013

According to a new study presented on Tuesday [19 Mar 2013] at a meeting of the American Heart Association, one out of every 100 obesity-related deaths around the world can be tied to sugary drinks, which directly exacerbate health conditions like diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer. Specifically, the over-consumption of those beverages increased global deaths from diabetes by 133,000, from cardiovascular disease by 44,000 and from cancer by 6,000.

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