Tag: How We Die
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Sugary Drinks Kill 25k per Year in the U.S. Alone
Consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages may contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, mainly due to Type 2 diabetes, a new study says. The results show sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is linked to 180,000 deaths a year worldwide, including 25,000 deaths a year in the United States, the researchers say. via…
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Painkillers Kill More Than Heroin And Cocaine Combined
Prescription opioid painkillers are responsible for more fatal overdoses in the U.S. than heroin and cocaine combined, according to a new study out of Brandeis University. via Business Insider. I’m fascinated by statistics about how we die. In Chicago gun crimes get all the media attention however heroin, and now I guess narcotic overdoses actually…