A study published last August by a team of researchers from Harvard claimed that consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. The problem with the study is that it contradicts a 2003 study which found no link at all between sugared soft drink consumption and diabetes. Oddly enough one researcher helped author both studies.
So do soda drinkers have an elevated risk of diabetes or don't they? Steve Milloy at Fox News.com is on the case. He concludes his article with these reassuring words for all the soda addicts out there:
The Harvard researchers have yet to make a credible case that soda consumption increases the risk of type 2 diabetes - but I am becoming quite convinced that they don't really care about credibility in the first place.
Read the whole column at the link and be careful not to spill any of that coca cola on your keyboard.
