Interesting Links for 26-04-2013

[andrewducker]

• Each can of sugary drink per day increases your chances of diabetes by 22%
  (tags: diet diabetes sugar )
• Kari Sperring - Why I started #Womentoread
  (tags: fiction writing women )
• Suicide: Probably not something you want to use to advertise your cars.
  (tags: epicwtf advertising suicide )
• BT (and TalkTalk) manage to exceed their usual appalling

Comments

[heron61]

Each can of sugary drink per day increases your chances of diabetes by 22%

I saw that - I've never had any relative have diabetes, but I'm still reducing my soda & other sugary drink consumption from 3-6 per month to less than that and going for (non-hard) apple cider more when I want a sweet drink.

[andrewducker]

I did a quick dig about this yesterday - so far as I can tell, having a father with diabetes means you have a 10% chance of developing it at some point, otherwise around a 1% chance. So increasing that to 1.22% isn't a massive change, but it is one people should know about!

With my blood sugar issues I have to drink diet drinks anyway, but so far as I can tell that's _because_ I ate far too much sweet stuff as a kid.

[cartesiandaemon]

Oh, it's 22% of the chance of getting it, not of 100%? That seems less extreme. I wish we had consistent terminology for those...

[andrewducker]

I assume so. Fancy looking at the paper?

[cartesiandaemon]

There were a couple of things I'd very much like to actually check (eg. what exactly counts as sugary), but I didn't have the energy to read on, alas. Sorry for being awkward and not doing the legwork :)

[naath]

Yep, read it.

From what I understand:

Yes, it's 22% relative to existing risk; not "add 22 to the risk % number".

"Sugary" means "with added sugar". Not things with artificial sweetener; and not fruit juice.

[naath]

It's linked from http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/index.html reading now.

[naath]

The other thing would be a "22 percentage point" increase AIUI.

[heron61]

Father specifically, or does having either parent be diabetic matter? From what I've read men only have a 50% higher chance of developing diabetes than women?

[andrewducker]

Darnit, can't find what I was looking at yesterday, which indicated that the father having diabetes gave a much higher effect than the mother. But here's this:
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-and-genetics.html
which breaks it down by diabetes type and relationship.