Sorry folks, I've made it to the top of my death hill again, thanks to this exciting new study!
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A large-scale study has found that both sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and low- or non-sugar-sweetened beverages (LNSSBs) are linked to an increased risk of developing metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).
Presented at UEG Week 2025, the study analyzed data from 123,788 UK Biobank participants who had no pre-existing liver disease. Participants reported their beverage intake through multiple 24-hour dietary questionnaires, allowing researchers to investigate how consumption of SSBs and LNSSBs related to the likelihood of developing MASLD, liver fat buildup, and liver-related deaths.
Results showed that individuals consuming more than 250 grams of either beverage per day faced higher risks of developing MASLD, by 60% for LNSSBs (HR: 1.599) and 50% for SSBs (HR: 1.469). Over a median follow-up of 10.3 years, 1,178 participants were diagnosed with MASLD and 108 died from liver-related causes. Although SSBs were not significantly linked to liver-related mortality, LNSSB consumption showed a notable association. Both drink types were also correlated with higher levels of liver fat.
Don't drink diet drinks daily. Or sugary ones, but that doesn't alliterate nearly as well.
I saw that last week... I'm completely and entirely doomed. There is no way I'm making it to retirement age. When I said I was going to work until I die, I figured that I would be into my late 70s.... hopefully I make it past my early 50s!
I saw that last week... I'm completely and entirely doomed. There is no way I'm making it to retirement age. When I said I was going to work until I die, I figured that I would be into my late 70s.... hopefully I make it past my early 50s!
No need to panic, it's only a 60% increase in the risk of developing something 30% of people have, which reduces life expectancy by 2.8 years, so...carry the one...and ya, whoops you just got hit by a car.
No need to panic, it's only a 60% increase in the risk of developing something 30% of people have, which reduces life expectancy by 2.8 years, so...carry the one...and ya, whoops you just got hit by a car.
Well, I have type 2 diabetes so I'm sure that reduces the life expectancy somewhat. If I get hit by that car it better not hit me in the liver!
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Scientists create ‘Superwood" which it says is up to 10 times stronger than steel by weight. The company says Superwood is up to 20 times stronger than regular wood, 10 times more resistant to dents, and resistant to fungi and insects.
It also scores highly in fire-resistance tests. While its manufacturing has a larger carbon footprint than regular wood, emissions are 90% lower than steel production, and the company aims to make it competitive with steel rather than cheaper than wood.
Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and causing more extreme weather, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.
The World Meteorological Organization said in its latest bulletin on greenhouse gases, an annual study released ahead of the U.N.’s annual climate conference, that C02 growth rates have now tripled since the 1960s, and reached levels not seen in at least 800,000 years.
Emissions from burning coal, oil and gas, alongside more wildfires, have helped fan a “vicious climate cycle,” and people and industries continue to spew heat-trapping gases while the planet’s oceans and forests lose their ability to absorb them, the WMO report said.
The Geneva-based agency said the increase in the global average concentration of carbon dioxide from 2023 to 2024 amounted to the highest annual level of any one-year span since measurements began in 1957. Growth rates of CO2 have accelerated from an annual average increase of 2.4 parts per million per year in the decade from 2011 to 2020, to 3.5 ppm from 2023 to 2024, WMO said.
