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READ: The New Reasons Soda Can Kill You

This study is important because it is consistent with purely U.S. study findings that soda drinking can increase diabetes by 25 percent.

Interestingly, diet soda drinkers weren’t exempt from the risks. Experts have noted that the relationship between diabetes and diet soda can be explained partially by a greater craving for sugar after diet soda consumption. Additionally, aspartame, one of the main artificial sweeteners used today, causes an increase in glycaemia and a rise in insulin levels.

It is important to note that while this study does support the previous findings of multiple other studies, which conclude that soda hurts both your weight and your health, the results of this study are based on what scientists call an association study. This means that the information is gathered from self-reported drinking patterns, which can naturally contain certain inaccuracies.

Why The Diabetes Link?

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Diabetes occurs when the pancreas cannot make enough of a hormone called insulin, or when the body ignores the insulin that it produces. Insulin’s job is to move glucose from the blood and into the body’s cells. Glucose is one of the body’s primary sources of energy. Without insulin, glucose is prevented from doing its job – to help support and replenish the body. When this happens, the body is stuck with too much blood sugar and too little nutrition for organs.

Sweet drinks can increase the risk of becoming overweight, which is already a well-known diabetes risk factor. But in addition to this, researchers believe that when a lot of sugar enters the bloodstream quickly, as it does when people consume soft drinks, the pancreas has to secrete larger amounts of insulin. But over time, with repeated soda sugar rushes, the pancreas may not be able to keep up with the demand for insulin, and sugar levels in the bloodstream may remain high, which is one of the essential symptoms of diabetes.

Soda (Even Diet) Can Raise Your Risk Of…  was originally published on blackdoctor.org

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