Kill the Machine
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 Business Insider.
Holy Cow!!
These drinks kill almost as many people as firearms.
So… when is Dianne Feinstein going to propose a ban on Coke.
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 kill more. In any given year it is likely that more die in automobile accidents as well; the media doesn’t really cover those either. This is all media bias against guns.
Where is the 60 mins story on prescription narcotics? Where are the interviews with the parents of the dead teenager, crying, screaming into the camera? Why is Mayor Bloomberg silent on this? Why isn’t there a call for more regulation of these drugs? Isn’t there a single politician who will stand up and say that it’s all for the children?