The Health Effects of Soda and Soft Drinks


Soft drinks contain a handful of ingredients. Among these ingredients you’ll find artificial coloring, artificial flavoring, water, sugar and caffeine.

Weight Gain, Metabolic Syndrome, and Type 2 Diabetes

While America’s consumption of soda seems to be decreasing, between 1977 and 2002 it doubled and along with it doubled the obesity rate. True, this is a correlation and soda may not necessarily be the cause of the obesity epidemic, but it certainly makes you pay attention to the possibility.

One soda a day adds about 150 calories to your daily diet. That’s 54750 calories annually which adds up to a whopping 15.64 pounds.

Think about how quickly the weight can add on if you have more than an average of one soda a day.

Couple the weight gain with the fact that the sugar in soda causes a spike in blood sugar levels.

When blood sugar levels spike, your body receives a signal from your pancreas to release insulin and stimulate your cells to take in glucose.

Your cells take it in and then you have a dramatic drop in energy and blood sugar levels.

So you crave something sugary, something that your body can break down quickly to provide you with a fast energy source.

You eat something sweet or starchy like potato chips and the process repeats itself.

If you’re not burning the sugars as fast as your cells are taking them in, they start to ignore the signals from your pancreas.

You start to become insulin resistant. Your body instead, stores the sugar as fat and you develop diabetes.

The good news about this process is that it’s reversible. Stop consuming sugary sodas and starchy treats and eat whole foods instead, and your body begins to respond.

Your blood sugar levels even out, your cells take up the energy they’re supposed to and you feel better and lose weight.

Keep in mind that the FDA recommends no more than 10 teaspoons of sugar each day. One can of soda contains all the sugar you should have in a day.

If you eat anything else with sugar in a day where you drink a soda, you’re going over the recommended daily allowance and let’s be clear that there is added sugar in everything from soup to ketchup to things that are supposed to be healthy for you like yogurt and milk.

In a single day without drinking a soda, most Americans exceed this RDA.

And sugar has been linked to a number of diseases beyond Type 2 Diabetes including cancer, heart disease, mental decline and more.

You’ll hear some people say that a calorie is a calorie and that your body needs sugar. Your body does need sugar but here’s the thing, it breaks down everything you eat into simple sugars.

Consuming processed sugar in the place of fruits or vegetables isn’t the same. Some calories are better for you than others.


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