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Your Favorite Soft Drinks

Drinking a soft drink can make a slice of gooey, cheese pizza taste better, but it may be risky when it comes to the health of your liver. A new study published in the Journal of Hepatology shows that drinking soft drinks may increase the risk of fatty liver disease. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common non-alcohol related liver disorder in this country and has the potential to progress to cirrhosis of the liver - a serious condition that requires a liver transplant.

The Risks of Drinking Soft Drinks: The Study

This study looked at a group of a group of individuals who had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk factors for metabolic syndrome, a group who had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease but no metabolic syndrome risk factors, and a group of healthy people. They found that the groups with non-alcoholic liver disease drank significantly more soft drinks prior to their diagnosis than did healthy controls - regardless of whether they had metabolic syndrome or not. Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors that increases the risk of developing diabetes and heart disease. In other words, drinking soft drinks appeared to increase the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease whether or not the people were already at risk of fatty liver disease due to metabolic syndrome.


Why Does Drinking Soft Drinks Increase the Risk of Fatty Liver Disease?

The researchers aren’t sure why, but they emphasize that drinking soft drinks may be associated with other poor dietary choices which could also contribute to the elevated risk of fatty liver disease. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is more common in people who are obese and those who have diabetes – suggesting that insulin resistance plays an important role. It’s believed that insulin resistance leads to a chronic inflammatory state that can directly contribute to fatty liver disease. According to studies, drinking soft drinks is also associated with insulin resistance and contributes to weight gain and obesity – another risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Time to Kick the Habit of Drinking Soft Drinks?

Nixing the habit of drinking soft drinks can have multiple health benefits including reducing the risk of metabolic syndrome, a condition which can lead to heart disease. It can also lower the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and reduce the risk of weight gain and obesity. Although switching to diet sodas may help; artificial sweeteners aren’t the best choice for everyone. Plus, there’s little nutritional value or benefit to drinking diet sodas. A healthier option would be to explore the world of teas, particularly green tea and white tea. Try substituting a cup of tea in place of one of your soft drinks each day until you can gradually wean yourself off of soft drinks entirely. Give it a try – for the health of your liver.


by Dr. Kristie

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Underscore all the above when it comes to DIET SODAS. In Suzanne Somers' book, Breakthrough, Dr. Howard Liebowitz of Santa Monica, California says:

"I consider diet soda a poison. There is nothing nutritionally sound in it. It's got artificial flavoring, artificial sweetener, artificial coloring. It's completely non-nutritious and it stresses the body, especially if you are consuming large volumes, because you are overwhelming your body's detoxification mechanism to get all these toxins out of your body. Eventually it's just going to burn out your adrenal glands and your immune system. Then there's the caffeine in diet sodas; people who are burned out (adrenals) use the caffeine in diet sodas and regular Coke as a stimulant. . .

"There's nine teaspoons of sugar in a can of Coca-Cola. Do you ever put nine teaspoons of sugar in anything?

"Diet soda doesn't have the sugar, but it has the caffeine. People with burned-out adrenals go to sugar and caffeine to get them through the day. I don't think you could do anything worse for yourself than drinking diet soda and Coke all day long."

In the same book, Breakthrough, Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, says this about aspartame ("Nutrasweet"):

"Two studies came out recently by one of the biggest cancer research institutes in the world, The Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences in Italy, and they used the largest number of rats ever used to test aspartame. Both studies were very carefully done, and they both showed an increase in cancer incidence from doses of aspartame equivalent to drinking diet sodas. Previous studies showed that aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde and formic acid, and when they put a radioactive tag on the aspartame to see what happens to it metabolically in the body, they found it not only broke down into formaldehyde, but the formaldehyde also attached to the DNA and caused multiple breaks in the DNA. . . what we call double-strand breaks and those are most associated with cancer induction. We also know that formaldehyde is very difficult for the body to remove from DNA. . .

"Aspartame is becoming a major addictive substance, and the health effects are absolutely profound. It should never have been approved, and it was approved over the objections of some of the major neuroscientists and toxicologists who served on the board of the FDA. They recommended that it not be approved, but it was approved over their objections for monetary reasons."

Add to all this the fact that sodas and diet sodas are sold in ALUMINUM CANS, and there's no reason to use Coke for anything other than to unclog a household drain. Aluminum is a heavy metal, and heavy metals affect the neurological system. As a matter of fact, Aluminum is being found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients in the form of neuro-fibrillary tangles (i.e., nerve cells that have become bunched together and knotted).

Buyer beware -- while you are still in control of your wits!