Soft Drinks Are Bad For You
Sodas- soft drinks are bad for you. They are non-nutritious- give you no essential nutrients your body needs and they pose several health risks.
Sodas contain high amounts of sugar. Drinking is usually easier than eating and your body absorbs liquid sugars much faster.. Some children and adults drink 2-3 litres of soda a day. So empty calories gained from added sugars in soft drinks are the number one culprit of overweight and obesity in the Western world.
A Yale university study found that drinking sweet beverages make people eat more, as their bodies don’t identify the empty calories gained from drinks easily. There is roughly 10 teaspoons of sugar in a can of soda. Sugar is highly addictive and the more you consume the more you will want, the more unstable your blood glucose levels will be and the more weight you will gain.
There are many studies that find no link or a very weak link between obesity and soft drinks too. They are usually supported and funded by the beverage industry.
Soft drinks are bad for you.. Potential health risks of regularly drinking sodas include bad inflammation in blood vessels, obesity, lower levels of good cholesterol, cancers, heart disease, strokes, kidney damage, liver failure (fat accumulation in liver), hypertension, depression and learning disorders.
Regularly consuming soft drinks may cause changes in your metabolism and muscles just like you have type 2 diabetes, your muscles using sugar for energy rather than burning fat. Your body becomes less able to cope with the rise in blood sugar. The energy you get from it lasts very short and is followed by fatigue.
Sugar, citric acid and chemicals in fizzy drinks can destroy your teeth. Risk of tooth erosion, enamel fracture, tooth sensitivity, decay and pain is increased greatly by regular consumption. In one study, extracted tooth kept in fizzy drink for two days lost 5% of its mass, while in another study it took only one week for the tooth to become a jelly mass.
Brominated vegetable oils- BOV commonly used in soft drinks are banned in many countries as they may cause memory loss, headaches, tremors, loss of muscle coloration and can even be deadly.
When you give up sodas you often go through withdrawal symptoms– bad headaches, distress, restlessness and moodiness just like when you cut out the daily coffee they drink, because of the addictive sugar and caffeine. So you are better off cutting back on soft drinks gradually, if not you will most likely go back to drinking heaps as your body won’t be able to handle the pain.
Fizzy drinks may change your eating habits for life by first giving you a sweet tooth, then a taste for high salt and high calorie foods, rather than for minerals and vitamins in healthy fruits and vegetables. You miss out on antioxidants in tea, vitamins in fresh fruit juices and calcium from milk when you consume fizzy drinks with empty calories instead.
Switching to fizzy fruit drinks and juices marketed as healthy alternatives is certainly not the solution either. These drinks can have higher sugar content than Coke or Pepsi. If you’d like to avoid calories from sugary soft drinks, simple choose diet versions as they contain much less calories although this is still not the ideal solution. Soft drinks are bad for you!
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