According to a US study, people who consume sugary drinks daily are at a higher risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Americans' consumption of sweetened sodas, sport drinks and fruit drinks everyday has resulted in more diabetes and heart disease cases, over the decade.

According to researchers' estimate, consumption of sweet drinks between 1990 and 2000 totaled to 130,000 cases of diabetes and 14,000 cases of coronary heart disease.

Researchers say that sugary drinks have 120 to 200 calories per drink, and this amounts to the rising number of obesity cases.

The American Heart Association says that women should consume no more than 100 calories of sugars per day, and men should stick to 150 calories per day.

Health policy experts recommend that the consumption of sweet drinks can be trimmed down through an excise tax of 1 cent per ounce of beverage, which would bring down consumption by 10%.

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Senior Author of the Study and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said, "If such a tax could curb the consumption of these drinks, the health benefits could be dramatic".