A new study has shown that the consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB) globally is responsible for about 340,000 deaths each year from Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The study, published in Nature Medicine on Monday, found that sugary drinks were linked to 2.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million cases of cardiovascular disease in 2020, with the majority of them occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
One in five new type 2 diabetes cases in Sub-Saharan Africa and a quarter of those in Latin America and the Caribbean are attributable to sugary drinks, according to researchers from Tufts University’s School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
