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Numerous studies have taken stock of some of the biggest offenders when it comes to developing diabetes and/or making it worse in some individuals.  One such study has uncovered some major culprits: Juice drinks and sodas.  This is especially true in Black women.

The national study, performed by Harvard University and called the Black Women’s Health Study, which followed the diets of 44,000 women from 1995 to 2001, found that even women who had otherwise healthy diets and lifestyles, had a much higher incidence of diabetes due to drinking sodas or juice drinks like fruit punch or Kool-Aid.  

Many of the women were surprised that the juice drinks were just as bad a sodas, because they thought they were being healthier by not drinking soda.  Women in the study were really trying to do the right thing by switching from soda to fruit drinks still ended up with diabetes.  Even the woman who managed the study, lead author Julie Palmer, was under the misconception about changing from sodas to fruit drinks, and has since found that she has pre-diabetes.

The statistics are staggering.  One in every four Black women age 55 and above have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.  The American Diabetes Association states that most of these women experience the complications that accompany diabetes, such as cardiovascular disease, blindness, amputation and kidney failure. 

In the fight to control diabetes, accurate information is essential.  In addition, determining which information is accurate and which information is based on misconceptions and misperceptions can help individuals with diabetes stay healthier and live longer, more comfortable lives.

Studies such as this one provide information that can help people make some simple changes – such as not drinking sodas or fruity drinks, but changing to some of the much improved diet drinks available today.