And yet, we continue to support the addition of sugar to everyday foods by buying and consuming those foods. Incredible. If sugary drinks are so bad for you, why are they even legal? Let's make rat poison sodas too. Sheesh.

But have a sugar drink, and all the sugar comes rushing into your system," Coulter said. And if the body has lost the ability to use the hormone insulin to regulate blood sugar (a condition called insulin resistance ), the extra sugar remains circulating in the blood.

So, basically foods with high sugar concentration are damaging to people who have diabetes-like conditions? .... shocking.

When my wife and I die, Coke will probably shelf Cherry Coke, and the stocks will drop a good 10+ points. My only question to Coke is this, "Why do you sell Coke with Real Sugar in Mexico, and Coke with High Fructose Corn Syrup to people in America?"

And are diet drinks better for you?

Very convenient that I love unsweetened tea, however with everything having a study on how everything else is bad for you....it's more a question of quantity. As a comedian once said (slightly paraphrasing), "Just because you work out and lift weights and eat right and do what people tell you to do, doesn't mean that you'll live a long life....maybe you will....but why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years where? ....I don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could have had a piece of cake tonight!"

They attacked smoking , they attacked drinking , here comes the long awaited sin taxes on soda and other sugars .

I still maintain that selling poison disguised as something good should be illegal. No, I don't want Nanny Government telling me I can't drink it; I want the government to tell the companies that they can't make it and sell it. Since that's not going to happen, at least put big warnings on the label of all the health problems it can cause...like on cigarettes. Make it less appealling and help people make informed choices. Warning: this rat poison soda may be detrimental to your health. Now selling rat poison soda can be legal, see? It's no different.

Another article with no facts, but yet a conclusion is drawn. More worthless reporting from the MSM.

I am glad I think for myself or I would be starving to death by now.

http://urbantitan.com/10-foods-that-can-kill-you/

10 Foods That Can Literally Kill You!!!

WorkerBee1, let me guess, you are one of the people screaming for a smaller less intrusive government, lol. Not one person is going to leave here alive and most do not need or want someone to tell them how to live. Educate the the public then step away.

1. Tuna, 2. Fruit 3. Mushrooms 4. Potatoes 5. Unpasteurised Organic Honey 6. Tomatoes 7. Almonds 8. Rhubarb 9. Nutmeg 10. Blowfish (Fugu)

I'll eat, drink, and inhale what I want, It's my carcass and I take full responsibility for it.

`OMG..it doesnt take a rocket science to figure it out..i use to not believe what they said about GMO crops..corn being the number one crop..whats in the soft drink???one thing being is corn syrup???what happens when it gets hot???these are things that the monsanto corp and others are in for full profit mode..they dont care what it does to lab rats???they also put other things in the drink..if you drink pepsi and coke all the time..it causes big health problems to all not just women or skinny women but to all humanity..i didnt use to believe all they were saying about gmo foods i thought what ???nothing wrong with our food..those people are a bunch of liberal extremist after investigating a little...you will find out that they are right..!we are getting poisened.God save the republic ..help us all...

Another study that no one can say for certain. Those who take too much sugary drinks probably have other bad habits. Of those who had the heart attacks, did they smoke, did they eat fatty foods, did they eat a Twinkie everyday, and were they couch potatoes? I know, they all had their hair done at the beauty shop. If you ever walked into one of those places just the fumes will kill any roaches that happen to come buy.

everything now a days links to something bad for you, doesnt matter what it is, but its bad for you.. showers, your favorite drinks, whatever.. why dont they just say that breathing is bad for you as well, with all the chemicals that we use today, its no wonder that something is gonna kill you. we never worried about this stuff when we were younger, if you dropped your icecream on the ground when you were a kid,u picked it up and still licked it,now a days its oh no you are gone die if you pick that up and eat it.....

Lets see 70 years later people died from a surgery drink.Or was that Old age? Does this sound familiar? Milk it does the body good..But you will die from the fat.><

Aw, crap. Finally get a job where the hot chocolate is free, and now this comes up.

No fun!

...And in three weeks to a month, this, too, will be debunked, because it is TOTAL BULL@!$%#.

One important thing they left out of this is, its not just 'sugary drinks'.. what about all those 'fat free' and 'low fat' foods like salad dressings that people buy thinking they are doing a good thing for their health.... They replace the fat with sugar to create the right consistency!

So.. even if you don't drink 'sugary' drinks, made with sugar or HFCS, you could be getting more than your share of 'sugary' by consuming 'diet foods'!

just thought I'd toss that into the discussion

I think that the most important takeaway from this article is that healthy and fit people are not always thin, and vice versa (excepting of course the issue of belly fat). Larger people may be perfectly healthy and fit and, shocker, actually eat a nutritious diet? Lean, conventionally attractive body types can be unhealthy??

Our society is so into body snarking. It is important to recognize that healthy and unhealthy bodies come in all sizes. Shaming and guilt tripping does no one any good.

Great, another medical article by some quasi expert on a new theory. How often have there been warnings from the medical community about a study. Then 2 weeks later someone else studying the same thing comes out with a conflicting opinion.

Grants fund these studies. Grants allow someone to live on the money and come to some results favoring the source of the grant. It usually turns out to be some college or semiprivate group looking to be able to eat for a while. The do little to help the population in general. The old adage, "Liars can figure and fugures can lie" is live and well.

The only thing that generally does work is, "Everything in moderation". You can't eat a bad diet and expect to stay healthy.

I'm so worried about my wife - she has diabetes and uses an epi-pen every day and yet still drinks fizzy cola 2 or 3 times per week.(No it's not diet cola).

I have drank 2 or more Pepsi's a day since I was a teenager.. my mom had CAD, my dad had CAD, and I have it.. difference is mom never drank sweetened coffee or anything else.. dad drank overly sweetened coffee, but none other. So then, why did mom get CAD? Yours is a theory, but not a definite.

There is nothing you can eat or drink or smoke that the AMA won't clearly state why it causes heart disease.

I don't trust the AMA as I have an aortic aneurysm and have had for several years, but the AMA regulates surgery on it until it's a minimum of 5 cm (2 inches). It can burst at any time, even prior to 5 cm. So I ask the AMA why a stent isn't inserted when the aneurysm is diagnosed and small? Why cause a person to sweat it out to 5 cm (I think the current measure is 5.7 cm). Seems to me the AMA is risking a lot of lives and proving nothing by doing it. There's a government association putting their noses into private people's affairs, once again.

The doctor says "quit smoking", but doesn't say a word about "surgary drinks". For me, the damage is done.. but others, if true, could benefit from the knowledge about surgary drinks. It doesn't seem to rate front-page reporting, tho.

These things have been studied for years, look up fructose rats and you will get study after study on fructose which is half the sugar molecule. High trigycerides (the "glyc" means sugar by the way) metabolic syndrome, gallstones, congestive heart failure, enlarged heart, fatty liver disease, diabetes, all these things were caused by fructose in rat studies. also well known in science are the MSG rats- they have known that they can create obese mice (and they are reported as "genetic" ) by feeding then MSG when young. This makes them PERMANENTLY obese. Then they use them in other studies to see what obese rats (and hopefully people eventually) respond to. However, they are still just playing with the concept and don't seem in any hurry to tell us their conclusions.

Wait a minute - isn't it drummed into our heads by doctors that SKINNY PEOPLE DON'T HAVE HEALTH PROBLEMS? Aren't all ailments caused by the dreaded obesity? How can a skinny person have heart problems? Weight and BMI are the measure of all health - so thin people have NOTHING to worry about. Right?