06.20.2009.08:35
Researchers at Ziv Medical Center find people who drink more that half a liter of carbonated or sweetened beverages a day are five times more likely to develop fatty liver compared to people who refrain from soft drinks.
A new Israeli medical study found that soft drinks are not only bad for your teeth, but can also cause damage to your liver.
Researchers at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed compared patients suffering from fatty liver disease (steatosis hepatitis) to a control group of healthy people.
They discovered that 80% of those diagnosed with fatty liver drink more than half a liter of soft drinks every day, including carbonated beverages and sweetened juices, compared to only 17% of the control group."
As opposed to ordinary sugar, the sugar found in soft drinks, called fructose, does not cause the body to produce insulin, and is therefore absorbed a hundred times faster and goes straight to the liver where it helps create fat cells," explained Dr. Nimer Assy, director of the Liver Unit at the hospital and a senior lecturer at the Technion's Faculty of Medicine.
According to Assy, people who drink more that half a liter of soft drinks a day are five times more likely to develop fatty liver compared to people who refrain from soft drinks. These studies are taking all the fun out of living.
2 comments:
I've known a friend who is prominent in the aviation industry back home, and who contracted diabetes due to being a recidivist drinker of COKE. It practically binds him to a lifetime of insulin injection! and diet!
Our family has long shunned drinking cola except occassionally during gatherings when water is not available. Cola has no nutritional value!
Avoid drinking cola if you can. It is beneficial to one's health in the long run.
As they say "An ounce of prevention is worth ..."
Again thank you for posting health tips. At our age we really have to keep on reading health tips and follow it. We have to be careful for our food intake. Before I love drinking coke when eating chips and peanuts but when I went to my doctor for my yearly physical check up he told me to stop eating chips and drinking soda. I stop drinking soda but still love to eat chips and peanuts. I can finish one can of planters peanut in three day while watching my favorite TV shows. I believe nuts are food of the brain.
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