Washington – A new study found that global warming in the United States raises the sweet teeth in the country.
When the temperature rises, Americans – especially those who have less money and education – drink a lot of sugary drinks and slightly frozen sweets. This reaches more than 100 million pounds of added sugar (358 million kilograms) consumed in the country per year, compared to 15 years, according to a team of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom.
When temperatures range between 54 and 86 degrees (12 and 30 ° C), the amount of sugar that ordinary Americans consume is about 0.4 grams per degree of Fahrenheit (0.7 grams per degree of degrees) per day, based on the tracking of researchers in weather conditions and consumer purchases. At 54 degrees, the amount of sugar added to ordinary citizens is more than 2 grams. In 86 degrees, it is more than 15 grams.
Moreover, appetite reduces and adds sugar, according to the study contained in natural climate change on Monday.
“Change climate changes what you eat and how you eat and may have a bad impact on your health,” said the climate scientist at Southampton University.
“People tend to eat more desalinated drinks because the temperature rises and higher,” Chan said. “It is clear that in the light of the warming climate that would make you drink more or take more sugar. This will be a sharp problem when it comes to health.”
The daily difference of high temperatures does not amount to one candy bar for the average person. Dr. Robert Lostig, a professor of endocrine disease at the University of California, said he adds over time and has a great impact.
Lustig wrote in an email that among the poorest Americans, only one box of diabetic drinks per day increases the risk of developing diabetes by 29 %-and thirst related to the temperature plays a major role in America Obesity epidemic.
The average annual temperature in the United States has risen 2.2 degrees (1.2 degrees Celsius) Since 1895, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
To plan the effect of sugar consumption, the researchers compared it to The recommendations of the American Heart Association: Reducing daily income to 36 grams for men and 25 grams for women.
Then the team compared wind records, length and humidity with detailed purchase records from 40,000 to 60,000 American families from 2004 to 2019, and not to use any data after beating the epidemic. Then they looked at the nutritional information that was purchased. This allowed them to get rid of other factors to make a causal link and reach an account of the amount of additional sugar that is consumed for one person for each degree, as the main author, an environmental scientist at Cardiff University.
An researcher said she started thinking about studying when she noticed that people in the United States tend to seize sugary soda when they were thirsty: “From the perspective of nutrition science or environmental science, this may be a problem.”
The researchers found that men consumed more sugary soft drinks, and that the amount of sugar -added sugar consumed during hot weather was several times higher for families with low and very low income compared to the wealthy.
Drink people who work outside sugary drinks more than those who work inside, and the same thing went to families where the family’s head was less educated. White people have the highest effect on additive sugar, while Asians have not shown any significant change in the additive sugar in the heat.
Lostig said that sugary drinks are marketed and priced in a way to attract the poor, and in many water deprived societies Funny tastes due to chemicals in them. He said that the poor are less likely to air conditioning, and they are likely to work abroad and need more hydration, which is Lustig and said.
“It must be related to the fact that the rate of influence in captivity is greater as people earn less money or less teaching,” said Dr. Courtney Howard, Vice President of the International Climate and Health Alliance. “These groups tend to obtain a lower basic health condition, so this is the field that the climate -related changes seem to amplify the current health inequality.”
Howard, the emergency room doctor, was not part of the study.
Chan said that the amount of sugar consumed is likely to rise in the future with more warming.
But the world of health and climate at the University of Washington, Christie Ebi, who was not part of the research, said with increased temperatures with the changing of the pre -climate of humans, “there will be other issues of greater importance than a slight increase in sugary drinks.”
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