I think that line in the summary is misleading. The full report says (emphasis mine):
Overall, we expect a 100% reduction in sugar-sweetened beverages consumption in a single country to reduce the global disease burden of diabetes mellitus type 2 by 0.02%.
So eliminating 100% of sugary beverage consumption in all 193 countries (# of countries used in the CEA) would prevent 3.86% of diabetes cases.
It’s unfortunate, but the kinds of policies that would eliminate diabetes will probably be extraordinarily expensive (a whole bunch of fiscal, regulation, educational and environmental measures to prevent poor diet and exercise habits, plus mass production and distribution of insulin/​ozempic/​renal drugs etc) - and the closer we get to solving the problem, the more costs increase, since the easier cases of diabetes to prevent/​treat would all be dealt with first.
Oh. 😞
I think that line in the summary is misleading. The full report says (emphasis mine):
So eliminating 100% of sugary beverage consumption in all 193 countries (# of countries used in the CEA) would prevent 3.86% of diabetes cases.
You’re right—we should probably should update that to be clearer!
It’s unfortunate, but the kinds of policies that would eliminate diabetes will probably be extraordinarily expensive (a whole bunch of fiscal, regulation, educational and environmental measures to prevent poor diet and exercise habits, plus mass production and distribution of insulin/​ozempic/​renal drugs etc) - and the closer we get to solving the problem, the more costs increase, since the easier cases of diabetes to prevent/​treat would all be dealt with first.