Kick the Can – Staff Writer
“Liquid sugar is a unique driver of today’s skyrocketing type 2 diabetes and obesity epidemics. Diabetes rates have almost tripled over the past three decades, just as sugary beverage consumption has doubled. At the same time, the rates of obesity (a major risk factor for diabetes) more than doubled for adults, tripled for adolescents and quadrupled for 6-11 year old children.”(more)