Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been under fire recently for proposing a ban on large-sized sugary drinks in New York.
But is it a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater or does research support the efforts?
The news out of New York is unrelated to a recent study from the University of Maryland Medical Center that looked at a fruit sugar known as fructose. But the timing of the release is a strange coincidence.
Researchers that followed more than 200,000 people for up to 3 decades across 3 different studies recorded the health and eating habits of people who were not diagnosed with hypertension at the start of the study.
The participants who drank a sugary drink every day showed a 13% increase in the likelihood of developing high blood pressure compared to peers who did not.
However, those who consumed the same amount of fructose from fruits were at no greater risk (and in fact at less risk) than those who consumed small amounts of fructose.
The difference is tentatively being looked at as the source of the fructose and the higher amounts being consumed in the larger, sugary drinks.
Put simply, sugars from refined sugars and high fructose corn syrup is bad for your high blood pressure while fructose from fruits is good. Those with type 2 diabetes still have to apply caution with any kind of sugars.
An all-natural approach to dropping high blood pressure in just days…
Yet more proof (if it was needed) that processed, industrial foods are the epidemic of our time, and will kill more people than wars and famine put together.
yes,indeed!natural sugars from fruits are absolutely healthier.
It’s just too late – the power of vested US interests will ensure that no government will ever dare to enforce its right to protect its own people’s health in the face of intimidation. Unless. of course, you are one of the truly screwball outfits like North Korea who flatly refuse to have anything to do with Western imperialist commercial interests.
The old adage of using the foods micro-nutrients [co factors] along with the main input factor of say, sugar seems to be the most likely reason for this protection. Nature usually knows best- where Man and Profit enter the equation then all things can, and usually do, change.
Everything in moderation and as natural as possible is best- but that is not the big business sales mantra we are fed from cradle to grave.
Media/TV are the main culprits -along with the weak parenting popular today.
does research support the efforts??? why don’t you state yes or no and why?
What is the impact on diabetes in children?
I am diabetic and occasionally I consume a bit of sugary pastries but I don’t make a habit of it. People need to realize that REFINED SUGAR is a killer and anything that’s made with it. I agree with the mayor, the obisity is out there, it’s all over the city, Too much sugary stuff are available and not only sugar, you have the greasy stuff too, people we’re killing ourselves slowly, the mayor is trying to save us all whether we like it or not, let’s give a try eat, drink with modaration, I’m trying myself
Good looking out Mayor Bloomberg, thumbs up
Why don’t they ban Asparame ? Or Asulphamine K ? Sugar substitutes are just as bad if not worse.
I agree totally with trevG, and until mordern mass media shut up from misinforming consumers through adverts, sugar and all that is produced with it will continue to be king killer. From your article it seems to me that sugar is sugar no matter from what souce it is made. You have said it all by your warning to diabetics. Good write-up.
Bottom Line, the government has no right to impose it’s will on the people. If people want to drink a large soda then that’s their right to do so. Government needs to be smaller and less intrusive in our lives. This needs to stop!!!!
I wish to state categorically that individual should save their lives by adhering to warning on excessive consumption of refined sugar.
Susan Rosser says gov’t should keep out of such matters. However the health bill for the results of unhealthy foods is government business and we all pay taxes to support the health industry. So in my opinion they have a duty to do what it takes to improve our health and use taxes for other purposes. This issue is just nibbling around the edges because the health industry is a monster now.