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Macro partitioning
High consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) is associated with an increasing burden of cardiometabolic mortality, with attributable deaths rising by 7.2% between 1990 and 2010, despite being a smaller absolute contributor than nuts or fruit deficits.
Cutting out sugary drinks is crucial because their consumption is rising and driving up heart and diabetes deaths. Even though other factors like low nut intake cause more total deaths, the trend for sugary drinks is getting worse, so reducing them is a high-priority action.
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greatest increase (7·2 %) was related to increased intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages
Why this rating
Based on comparative risk assessment modeling using meta-analyses.
Source
Impact of diet on CVD and diabetes mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative risk assessment analysis
Iván Sisa et al. · Public Health Nutrition · 2020
DOI 10.1017/s1368980020000646
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