Indians have replaced traditional sweets like ladoos with sugary drinks like lassi

#diabetes #health #sugarydrinks #lassi In order to fight diabetes, Indians are trying to do away with traditional sweets like ladoos but, alongside, the consumption of sugary drinks have gone up. Statistically speaking, the annual per capita consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has jumped in leaps and bounds from around 2 liters in 1998 to 11 liters in 2014.
This is in sharp contrast to the per capita consumption of traditional sugars such as jaggery and khandsari by Indians – these have gone down from 8.72-Kg per annum in 2001 to approximately 5-Kg per annum in 2011.
This is based on estimates of the Diabetes Foundation and Centre of Nutrition and Metabolic Research and reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 11 July 2015.

This trend is believed to be responsible for the increase in the number of deaths and disabilities worldwide. An estimated 184,000 death of adults every year can be attributed to consumption of sugary drinks including sodas, fruit drinks, sports/energy drinks, and sweetened iced teas.
For Indians, the problem is all the more because of our affinity to milkshakes, sweetened buttermilk or lassi – these are high in calories and glycemic load. Increasing intake of sugary beverages results in complex lifestyle diseases like diabetes, heart disease and even cancer.
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