If you also consume sweet drinks like cold drinks to cool your body in the summer, then be careful. Knowingly or unknowingly, a large amount of sugar is reaching your body with every bottle of cold drink. So much sugar not only increases the risk of obesity in you in a few days but can also cause serious diseases like type-2 diabetes, heart disease, and fat accumulation in the liver.
People have been warned in many recent studies about drinking sweet drinks and sports drinks. In a recent report published in Amar Ujala, it was said that if you drink cold drinks even twice a week, then it can increase the risk of heart disease by 50%.
Media reports suggest that most cold sports drinks sold in the country may contain four to five times more sugar than the amount prescribed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), while apart from sugar, every bottle also contains phosphoric acid and caffeine, the excess of which can make you sick, very sick.
Every bottle contains harmful elements for the body
According to a report published in the Science Direct journal, the ingredients of most soft drinks contain harmful elements that pose a risk of both short-term and long-term side effects. Peony, sweetener (sugar), carbon dioxide, artificial flavors, coloring agents, acidulants (which give a pungent, sour, or acidic taste to food items), and chemical preservatives are added to cold drinks.
The special thing is that many companies also hide information about the quality of colors and the chemicals present in cold drinks.
Lots of sugar in cold drinks
Student classifies sugar as 'white poison', which if consumed in excess can lead to serious diseases.
According to media reports, a 750 ml bottle of cold drink available in India can contain up to 9-10 grams of sugar. Whereas experts of the American Heart Association advise not to consume more than 30 grams of sugar daily. That is, if you drink cold drinks even three times a day, then more than the prescribed amount of sugar reaches the body.
Apart from this, they neither contain fiber nor other nutrients necessary for the body. For example, with every bottle, a large number of such elements goes into the body due to which you can fall prey to many chronic diseases.
Dangerous for diabetes, heart and liver
After drinking cold drinks, even though you feel cool for a few minutes, in reality, it has many disadvantages. Sweet beverages are full of excessive amounts of fructose, which our liver is unable to break down properly. Therefore, over time, they accumulate in the liver as fat. In the long term, cold drinks can cause the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Studies have shown that excessive fructose is the cause of insulin resistance, which is why if you keep drinking cold drinks often, it can lead to the risk of type-2 diabetes.
Similarly, in a study report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers said that the habit of consuming sweet drinks even in small quantities can increase the risk of heart disease by 50 percent.
What do experts say?
In a conversation with Amar Ujala about how harmful cold drinks and sports drinks are, Garima Kasaudhan, a nutritionist at a Lucknow-based hospital, says, that with every sip of sweet drink, extra sugar is reaching our body. We are already taking more sugar knowingly or unknowingly from biscuits, sauces, tea-coffee, etc., and on top of that, cold drinks increase these risks further. The drinks sold in the market in the name of cumin-mango, and orange contain more chemical flavors for taste while their actual quantity is very less.
Such drinks can be considered the main reason for increasing obesity in children and fatty liver problems in people who do not drink alcohol.
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