Rise in sugary drinks is really a fall, says study funded by Beverages Australia

By Esther Han
Updated March 12 2014 - 12:09pm, first published February 18 2014 - 5:25am

The soft drink industry wants us to think we are drinking less sugar. It is promoting a study about to be published in the journal Nutrition and Dietetics that concludes in the 14 years to 2011 sales of sugar-sweetened beverages grew 5 per cent. But it says population growth makes that a drop in consumption per person. Sales of non-sugar sweetened drinks, including bottled water, almost doubled.

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