In an article posted today on Yahoo entitled “What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body”, Dr. Maoshing Ni discusses the negative effects of soft drinks on your body.  As we all know, soft drinks are filled with lots of sugar.  According to Dr. Ni, the result of overindulging in simple sugar is raised insulin levels.  Raised blood insulin levels beyond the norm can lead to depression of the immune system, which in turn weakens your ability to fight disease.  So if what Dr. Ni says is correct, soft drinks can affect your immune system…and for the worse.

You then have the people who say, “well, I drink diet drinks.”   Dr. Ni says that the artificial sweeteners in diet drinks such as aspartame, sucralose or saccharin can actually pose a threat to your health.  Saccharin, for instance, has been found to be carcinogenic and studies have found that it produced bladder cancer in rats.

The article goes on to talk about carbonation depleting calcium in your body, etc.  Read the full article.

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