We All Know Soda isn’t Good for us by now Right?
Wait until you see how bad it really is!
Check out this great poster:
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What’s in your Soda?
Posted on July 31, 2012 by PositiveMed Team
As almost everyone knows, soda is not a healthy drink and it may cause a lot of health issues, including diabetes and obesity. Even the widely advertised “diet soda” may increase the risk of heart disease and stroke in people who drink it regularly. (For more info check out this link).
These are a list of soda’s ingredients and you can find the real effects of these ingredients in the following poster:
- Sugar (Sucrose) and corn syrup
- Aspartame
- Caramel color
- Flavor additives
- Phosphoric acid and caffeine
- sodium
http://positivemed.com/2012/07/31/whats-in-your-soda/
7 Effects of Soda
7 Effects of Soda
The bad effects of having soda is not only due to its high sugar content and high calories. Even diet soda causes many harms to our body. Soda contains some ingredients that have different known and unknown effects.
As an example of these weird effects, a new Danish research shows that drinking non-diet soda builds up fat around the liver and skeletal muscles, which eventually leads to insulin resistance and diabetes.
This research also shows that having only one soda a day for six month, causes 30 percent increase in blood triglyceride and 11 percent increase in blood cholesterol, which is really a big deal!
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Soda & the risk of heart disease:
A Soda a Day Raises Chronic Heart Disease Risk by 20%!-
Sugary drinks and sodas are associated with 20% increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) as well as some adverse changes in lipids, inflammatory factors, and leptin, according to a new study in Children’s Hospital Boston, MA.
“Even a moderate amount of sugary beverage consumption — we are talking about one can of soda every day — is associated with a significant 20% increased risk of heart disease even after adjusting for a wide range of cardiovascular risk factors,” senior author Dr Frank B Hu (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA) told heartwire . “The increased risk is quite substantial, and I think has important public-health implications given the widespread consumption of soda, not only in the US but also increasing very rapidly in developing countries.”
Hu says that one of the major constituents of soda, high-fructose corn syrup, is subsidized in the US, making such drinks “ridiculously cheap” and helping explain why consumption is so high, particularly in lower socioeconomic groups.
“It has been shown for minority groups — such as African Americans and Asians — that they are more susceptible to the detrimental effects” of sugary drinks on diabetes incidence, he notes.
Soda in Disguise
The FDA states that any drink can be called a ‘fruit drink’
as long as it has some fruit juice, even less than 1 percent!
Yeah... Right !
Yeah... Right !
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