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DAILY SOFT DRINKS INCREASE DIABETES RISK



Most Americans love to drink soda. In fact, non-diet soft drinks are the leading source of added sugars in the American diet. But a new study, officially coming out Wednesday, shows that women who drink sugar-sweetened beverages daily are much more likely to gain weight and to develop diabetes.

Melitta King enjoys sugar-sweetened drinks, such as soda.

"Especially when it's hot out. It tastes good,” noted Melitta.

But it's not good for you, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"Women who were drinking sugar sweetened soft drinks every day or more than once a day had an 80 percent increase in risk of diabetes compared with women who hardly ever drank sugared sodas,” said Dr. Meir Stampfer.

Dr. Stampfer worked with colleagues from Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

They reviewed data from a national survey called the nurses health study.

The researchers focused on beverage-drinking and diabetes data from about 50,000 women, surveyed from 1991 to 1999.

Dr. Stampfer says there's a specific reason why non-diet soda and fruit punch lead to weight gain - a major cause of diabetes.

Sugar-sweetened drinks are high in calories, but don't cause a feeling of fullness.

"So it's easier to gain weight when you're taking in more calories from drinks than it is from food,” explained Dr. Stampfer.

Not only do sugar-sweetened drinks, which contain sucrose or high fructose corn syrup, lead to weight gain, but here's how they can encourage diabetes to develop:

"The sugared soft-drinks are very rapidly absorbed and they cause a sharp up-swing in blood sugar, which causes a sharp increase in insulin production, and then this causes the blood sugar to go down,” continued Dr. Stampfer.

He calls that cycle a recipe for diabetes – a potentially devastating disease.

"This is not rocket science. If you're taking in calories, especially calories in the form of sugared soft drinks that have no other nutrient value, it's not at all surprising that you'd see weight gain,” Dr/ Stampfer noted.

And weight gain can lead to diabetes. So what’s a solution?

Drink mostly water.

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Good post Heckman.....soft drinks are very acidic also.

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Very interesting post. Not surprising to me at all. If I drink one Dr. pepper I'm fine. But if I drink more than one within a short time I feel sick. Somethings definitely going on with the sugar thing there.

Glad I cut back on DP's. I used to have 1 or 2 a day. Now it's 1 or 2 a week. It's my treat.

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