Studies show that drinking soft drinks increases the risk of all-cause death

According to a European study published in JAMA internal medicine, the more soft drinks you drink, the higher the risk of all-cause death, whether it's natural or artificial Dr Amy mullee of the University of Dublin and his colleagues used data from a Multi Country prospective survey of the European cancer and nutrition research to study the relationship between the consumption of total sugar, sweetened and artificial sweetened soft drinks and subsequent total and specific cause mortality The analysis (http:// included 451743 participants (average age 50.8 years) recruited between 1992 and 2000 The researchers found that 41693 people died during an average follow-up of 16.4 years Higher all-cause mortality was associated with at least two total soft drinks (hazard ratio 1.17), sweetened soft drinks (hazard ratio 1.08), and artificial sweetened soft drinks (hazard ratio 1.26) per day, compared with those who consumed less than one drink per month The researchers also found a positive correlation between artificial sweetened soft drinks and digestive diseases that die from circulatory diseases and between sugary soft drinks and death