All Stories Tagged With: "soda"
Diet Soda Increases Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
Both soda and diet soda are two drinks you won’t want to be anywhere near if you really care about your health. These highly consumed beverages contain massive amounts of sugar and toxic ingredients, leading to a great deal of health complications. Research has found that those who drink soda on a daily basis are increasing their risk of heart attack and stroke. Lead researcher Hannah Gardener and her team studied 2,564 adults aged 69 years or older in New York City over the course of 10 years.
Soda Consumption Increases Asthma and COPD Risks
If you are on a quest to obesity and really want an increased risk of diabetes and cancer, then look no further than upping your soda consumption. In addition to these negative effects, new research has also pinpointed soda for upping the risk for respiratory diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The study aimed to examine the association between soda consumption and doctor-diagnosed asthma and COPD.
Soda Damages Your Heart, Contains Carcinogenic Ingredients
Soda is one of the most popular soft drinks of our time. Unfortunately, along with the increased popularity comes a number of increased health risks. Most sodas contain very large quantities of sugar. This sugar often comes in some refined form, like high-fructose corn syrup, which is even more dangerous than regular sugar and is known to contain mercury. Diet sodas often contain aspartame or some other form of artificial sweetener, which is no better and often does more damage to the individual.
Pepsi Co. Admits Mouse Body Would Disintigrate from Mountain Dew
There has been some rather shocking news lately concerning the multi-national mega corporation Pepsi Co. and their highly popular beverage Mountain Dew. After reportedly finding a mouse in a Mountain Dew can in 2009, Ronald Ball from Illinois is in the process of suing the soft drink giant after finding a dead mouse in his soda can.Needless to say, Pepsi Co. is completely refuting his claims, saying that the mouse he found could not have been there as the drink is so acidic the mouse would have disintegrated before he opened it.
Flame Retardant Chemical Banned in Europe and Japan Used in U.S. Soda for Decades
Why has a flame retardant chemical banned in Europe and Japan been used as an ingredient in North American sodas for decades? If you live in the United States and drink citrus-flavored sodas such as Mountain Dew, you may be ingesting this substance that has health professionals up in arms. A synthetic chemical known as brominated vegetable oil (BVO) — first patented by chemical companies as a flame retardant — is increasingly being identified as a threat to your health, but soda companies still have yet to remove BVO as an ingredient.
Teens Who Drink Soda More Likely to Carry Weapons and Become Violent
Scientists have recently uncovered a link between soft drink consumption and aggressive behavior, with teens who drink more than 5 cans of soda significantly more likely to carry a weapon and become violent with peers, family, and dates.
Drinking Water Over Fizzy Drinks Slashes Diabetes Risk
A new study reveals a simple tip to avoiding diabetes: choose purified water over sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks. Researchers from Harvard University have tied consumption of carbonated beverages such as soda to diabetes. The key is fructose consumption.
Sugary Drinks | Over Consumed and Health Threatening
New research released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that half of the US population above age 2 consumes sugary drinks daily. These sugary drinks are soda, sweetened bottled water, sports and energy drinks, and fruit drinks (excluding 100 percent juice).
10 Eating Habits that Will Make You Fat
Eating fat won’t make you fat, but any one of these 10 bad eating habits may be contributing to your growing waistline. Many of these you may not even notice you are doing!
Is Your Shampoo Making You Fat?
We all know that Americans — leading the way for the rest of the developed world — are getting fatter. We hear about the “obesity epidemic” on the TV news, with footage of people depicted from the waist down shuffling around in XXL sweatpants and carrying supersized sodas. The majority of us are overweight, complaining about how our jeans are getting tighter and wondering why, despite all our efforts to diet and go to the gym, the number on the scale keeps edging higher.
Aspartame-Filled ‘Diet’ Soda Leads to Weight Gain
Where I work there is a canteen serving espresso coffee and cold drinks. You probably have the same thing. You can buy espressos, lattes, cappucinos and there are a couple of glass-fronted fridges containing neat, gleaming rows of canned drinks. Many of these are caffeinated, sugar-free “energy drinks” such as Relentless (made by Coca-Cola). They’re tremendously popular and you often see people coming back to their desks carrying a can of Diet Coke or the variant in black and red livery that’s marketed to men, Coca-Cola Zero.
Diet Sodas Don’t Help with Dieting
Two new studies have linked drinking diet soda to poorer health compared with those who don’t drink the beverage. People who said they drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced waist size increases that were six times greater than those of people who didn’t drink diet soda, according to researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. A second study that found the sweetener aspartame raised blood sugar levels in diabetes-prone mice.
CDC: 1 in 4 High Schoolers Drink Soda Every Day
A new study shows one in four high school students drink soda every day — a sign fewer teens are downing the sugary drinks. The study also found teens drink water, milk and fruit juices most often — a pleasant surprise, because researchers weren’t certain that was the case. “We were very pleased to see that,” said the study’s lead author, Nancy Bener of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sugary Drinks Make You Crave More Calories, Study Shows
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, and just two sugary drinks can have the opposite effect. According to the Guardian, UK researchers are suggesting that two sugary drinks a day can dull your taste buds, which leads to a “dulled sensitivity to sweet tastes.” This, in turn, can cause people to seek out high-calorie, sweet snacks. “As the sweet ‘treat’ becomes less rewarding, so people tend to look for more sweet food to drink, and a vicious circle of eating sweet and calorie-laden food is established,” a press release describing the study explained.
This Drink is Just as Dangerous as Soda
Most of us know about the health dangers associated with consuming soda. From empty calories to actually compromising the body’s ability to stay healthy and fight off disease, soda is a well known health culprit. But there’s another drink on the market that many of us unknowingly not only consume, but give abundantly to our kids! So what is this dangerous drink that the average American child consumes more than forty liters of annually?
What You Can Do Right Now to Lose Weight and Feel Better, Cost Free – Part 1
The United States is all about instant gratification. While healthy weight loss is an ongoing process that can take several weeks or months to completely achieve, there are still a few quick fixes that can help you lose up to 10 lbs in as little as one week.
Infographic: Soda Consumption
Check out this shocking infographic (an image containing information) about soda consumption. Americans consume 49.78 billion liters of soda per year. See more interesting facts in the infographic below.
Study Finds 48% of Fountain Sodas Contaminated
A new study from Hollins University tested 90 beverages from 30 fountains, and found that 48% of the sodas were contaminated with coliform bacteria. Coliform bacteria is a form of fecal contamination, and could stem from a number of sources.
Aspartame Alert: Diet Soda Destroys Kidney Function
Scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have revealed results from a study outlining some of the effects of artificial sweeteners on the body. Conducted on a group of 3,000 women, the results indicated that those who drank two or more artificially-sweetened beverages a day doubled
