New research finds that the consumption of sugary drinks and
sodas contributes to about 180,000 obesity-related deaths around
the world — including the deaths of about 25,000 adult Americans
— each year. According to a new study presented on Tuesday 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. Although the United States doesn’t
currently have the highest rate of deaths associated with sugary
drinks — that dubious distinction goes to Mexico, where people
consume more sugar-sweetened beverages than anywhere else in the
world — Americans still get the majority of their calories from
those type of drinks. The experts who contributed to the study
explained that’s a big is