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Habitual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with a significantly greater incidence of type 2 diabetes, independent of adiposity.

To lower your risk of type 2 diabetes, reduce your intake of sugar-sweetened beverages. Each daily serving increases your risk by approximately 13%, even if you maintain a healthy weight. Switching to artificially sweetened drinks or fruit juice does not remove this risk and is not a recommended strategy for prevention.

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Habitual consumption of sugar sweetened beverages was associated with a greater incidence of type 2 diabetes, independently of adiposity.
Fumiaki Imamura et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2016

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Moderate quality evidence based on prospective cohorts, though heterogeneity (I2=89%) is high.

Source

Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of population attributable fraction

Fumiaki Imamura et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2016

DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2016-h3576rep

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