starbucks cakeFlickr/allisonmseward12  Well, good thing this
never quite happens to humans. Or does it?  In an unusual study,
a team of biologists raised a bunch of wild mice — not the
docile lab mice most scientists use — on a healthy diet, plus a
sugar mix that's roughly equivalent to drinking three sodas a
day as a human.  Then, the scientists stuck their mice in a
natural environment where they had to compete against wild mice
that hadn't been raised on the sugar water.  The research team
found "soda"-drinking female mice had shorter lifespans. Their
male counterparts fathered fewer pups, likely because they
weren't as good as males raised without sugar water at defending
territories.  Soda-drinking female mice had shorter lifespans,
and their male counterparts fathered fewer pups. The study is
the first to examine, in lab animals, the effects of added sugar
intake at levels that are equivalent to what some humans
normally consume, say the study's authors, a team of U.S.
biologists.  Thirteen percent to 2