Health Officials Decry Mexico’s Deadly Coca-Cola Addiction Unreported World
go to original August 12, 2022

Here in Chiapas, one of the poorest states in Mexico, people drink two litres of sugary drinks a day, and Coca-Cola is king.

As health officials declare a diabetes emergency, we meet the families in the thick of a diabetes crisis, a deadly mix of COVID and sugar sending people to early graves.

Elsewhere, between 2012 and 2022, per capita consumption of both plain and flavored bottled water grew by 50 percent.

The campaign against soft drinks launched by the government and the need for Mexicans to improve their consumption habits, after two years of the health emergency due to the coronavirus, boosted sales of bottled water and flavored drinks, ‘weakening’ the performance of marketing of soft drinks.

Read more at Bye Bye Soft Drink? Mexicans ‘Fall in Love’ With Water and Flavored Drinks (The Guadalajara Post)

Related: The Coca-Cola Addiction of Mexico’s Indigenous Population (El Pais)