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sugary drinks and health
- Public Health Concerns related to soft drinks (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- What counts as a sugary-sweetened beverage? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Not just soda: drinking too much fruit juice linked to premature death risk (CNN)
- Sugary drinks linked to higher risk of dying from heart disease (Harvard Health Publishing)
- Rethink your drink! (Healthy Hawaii)
- One soda a day increases risk of type 2 diabetes (Hawaii Public Radio)
- Drinking two or more diet beverages a day linked to high risk of stroke, heart attacks (CNN)
- Limit low-calorie sodas and drinks, and stick to water instead, researchers advise (American Heart Association)
- Why it’s time to start replacing your daily soda (Cleveland Clinic)
- Drinking a can of Coca-Cola can have damaging effects on the body within an hour (Medical News Today)
- Review Confirms Link Between Sugary Drinks and Obesity (Medical News Today)
- How soda impacts diabetes risk (Medical News Today)
exposing the beverage industry's bad behavior
- Big Soda vs Public Health: How the industry opens its checkbook to defeat public health measures (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
- Coca-Cola emails reveal how soda industry tries to influence health officials (Washington Post)
- Soda Companies Step Up Their Marketing To Black And Latino Kids (Hawai‘i Public Radio)
sugary beverages and youth
- 11% of public school students drink at least one soda a day (Hawai‘i Health Matters)
- Obesity associated with physical inactivity and soda drinking in high school students (Journal of School Health)
- Coca-Cola internal documents reveal efforts to sell to teens, despite obesity crisis (Washington Post)
- Healthy Kids Meals: How Local Action Can Spur Policy Change Across the Nation (Change Lab Solutions)
benefits of sugary drink taxes
- Promote equity by taxing sugary drinks (Brookings Institution)
- Soda taxes are a ‘no brainer’ for public health (Time Magazine)
- Economists find net benefit in soda taxes (New York University)
- Sugary drinks: continued barrier to public health progress (University of Connecticut)
sugary drink taxes across the united states
- Sweetened-beverage sales drop 30% in Seattle after soda tax (Seattle Times)
- Soda taxes increase prices and lower consumption (Stanford Medicine)
- Berkeley soda tax increases water consumption, decreases soda sales (Berkeley Public Health)
- Philadelphia sugary drink sales drop 38% after soda tax (CNBC)
sugary beverages statistics
- Nearly one in five Americans drink at least one soda a day (Medicinenet)
- Sugary Drinks Facts (American Cancer Society)
science on sugary drinks
- SSB Consumption Associated With Mortality Risk in US Adults (JAMA)
- SSB Consumption Associated With Weight Gain in Children and Adults (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
- Taxing Sugar Sweetened Beverages to Improve Public Health: Policy Action in Hawai‘i (Hawai‘i Journal of Medicine and Public Health)
