Global warming in the United States is amping up the country's sweet tooth, a new study found.

Global warming in the United States is amping up the country's sweet tooth, a new study found.

A peer-reviewed study published this week found that rising temperatures in the United States are associated with increased purchases of sugar-laden beverages and some frozen desserts. The spikes were most prevalent among lower-income and less-educated households. "This again stresses the inequality issues embedded in both public health management and climate change adaptation," Dr. Pan He, lecturer at Cardiff University and among corresponding authors of the study, told Newsweek. Why it matters The study connects two public-health concerns: longer-term warming trends and persistent high consumption of added sugars—primarily from sugar-sweetened beverages—in the U.S. diet. The finding links short-term weather variation to food-purchasing behavior and examines climate warming's potential to compound diet-related health risks for vulnerable populations. What to know In the study published in Nature Climate Change on Monday, researchers estimated the temperature-linked increase equals more than 100 million pounds…