How do the soft drinks affect our health?

Acids and caffeine hinder the absorption of iron and calcium in the bones, therefore favour the emergence of anemia and osteoporosis

What refreshing, what sweet, how tasty it is a Coca Cola in these days of terrible heat! Soft drinks have something that grabs you, makes you take one and another and another and another more every day, and certainly wonder what can be wrong with this habit if you've heard this type of drink is energy and also produces some fullness in the stomach that reduces appetite?

As you should know the most recent scientific studies indicate that the soft drinks can be harmful to our lives. Want to delve into this topic? Keep reading and you find out of how you affect the soft drinks.

What sodas?

The process of soft drinks is simple enough: the mixture of filtered water, carbon dioxide, sweeteners (substances that provide sweet flavor) and acidulants (substances which alter or control the acidity) resulted in a refreshing soda which you can drink in any establishment. However, its beginnings and development were in the pharmaceutical industry since they were used as tonics to relieve headache and indigestion.
Many years have passed since that beginning and there are many varieties of soft drinks that exist. They have different colors, smells and tastes but are all non-alcoholic effervescent and flavored drinks. Now well as healthy what? may old concepts be? Unfortunately it is not possible, every day more harmful effects of sodas are discovered for the human being, especially for children. If you still doubt it here I show you some of the symptoms that occur if you eat too many soft drinks.

Symptoms of excessive consumption of soft drinks

• Headache
• Tremors
• Cardiac arrhythmia
• Anxiety
• Trouble sleeping or insomnia
• Depression
• Nausea and vomiting
• Frequent urination
• Decrease in the density of bone mass (by low absorption of calcium)
• Appearance of lumps and breast pain.
• Appetite suppression

How do the soft drinks affect our health?

Increasingly there are more research pointing out the negative effects of many products that we have become accustomed to eating, this is the case of the soda.

Effects of the nervous system

Many of these soft drinks contain a high concentration of caffeine. Caffeine esun alkaloid that has stimulating effects on the autonomic nervous system and the heart, so it stimulates wakefulness and resistance to fatigue, as well as being a powerful vasodilator, but here its benefits arrive. Excessive Caffeine consumption leads to dependence, headache, cardiac arrhythmia, insomnia and anxiety. The same symptoms you will experience takes too much coffee or tea daily.

Carcinogenic effect

Soda must have a taste and a color attractive, and kept in good condition for a long time, that's that are added many preservatives and acidulants chemical additives that may be very harmful to your renal system. These substances tend to accumulate in the tissues causing the appearance of cancer cells and the development of tumors in the long run. You don't win by the fact that some of them are antioxidants, your precise body of natural antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables

Increase reflux during digestion

It is believed that contrary to what was previously thought sodas can have a negative effect on the digestive process. Present in these drunk carbon dioxide increases the acidification of the gastric juices and accelerate their production which in turn accelerates digestion but at the same time causes reflux gastro-oesophageal, acidity and absorption problems, which can be particularly painful for people who suffer from gastritis and stomach ulcers

They can cause decay

It has also been suggested that CO2 and sugar sodas affect our mouths and teeth, since they alter the perceptions of taste, corrode the enamel and may cause the appearance of decay.

Overweight causes

Usually soft drinks have a high concentration of sweeteners either high or low caloric value (1 tin can have 3 or 4 tablespoons of sugar). The low caloric value are e.g. sorbitol, aspartame and saccharin, while very caloric sweeteners are sucrose and glucose. An excess consumption of these sugars causes increases in blood sugar levels in blood, inflammation of the pancreas and diabetes. On the other hand the carbohydrates that are not converted into energy via metabolic processes are accumulated in form of fat in tissues and arteries, causing atherosclerosis and overweight .

Loss of bone mass

In case outside little, acids and caffeine in these drinks are harmful to our skeleton, since they interfere with the absorption of calcium in the bones, causing the loss of bone mass, weakening them and favouring the appearance of osteoporosis. On the other hand the combination of sugar and acid hinders the absorption of iron in the cells which can cause anemia and become susceptible to various infections.

Be careful with the gas light

To avoid the problems of weight and diabetes take gaseous light is not enough, but I must warn you that of the sugar substitute sweeteners nor can be ingested in large quantities since they are substances that are substances that interfere with different metabolic reactions and cause brain damage, memory loss and even favor the development of neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's.

And to finish

Despite the delicious sodas may be, I recommend that you opt for take water, juices, smoothies and juices as well you will be protecting your health. This advice is aimed especially at pregnant and people that suffer from nervous problems, conditions in the breast, gastric ulcers, cardiovascular problems, hypertension and migraine, which can be the hardest.
Remember, pleasure and health should go hand in hand.

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