Why you should stop drinking soda and Soft drinks? 15 Harmful effects on human body

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We all have been checked for drinking 'too much soft drinks' by our parents. We might often overlook and consider them old fashioned but we don't realise how much do these carbonated soft drinks harm our body.

Not only this other caffeinated, sugared, or artificially sweetened beverages also cause heavy damage to our body in ways unknown.

Listening to your parents and giving up soft drinks can be one of the best things you can do to improve your health. 

We will give you a few scientific and researched reasons to say no to soft drinks.

1. It contains an ingredient banned in over 100 countries

Now you don't want to be the guinea pig in the lab. About 10% of soda flavours contain BVO, or brominated vegetable oil, which is banned by the World Health organization and 100 countries.

2. Weakened Bones and Risk of Osteoporosis

If you want strong bones and keep them that way, then say no to soft drinks. Frequent consumption of soft drinks may also increase the risk of osteoporosis, especially in people who substitute calcium-rich milk with soft drinks. This is especially observed in children where high levels of consumption of cola increases risk factor for impaired calcification of growing bones. Carbonated drinks may be weakening bones by promoting the loss of calcium.

3. Dehydration

Caffeine and sugar cause dehydration. Caffeine is a diuretic and causes an increase in urine volume by draining water from cells in our body. And high concentration of sugar is drawing off water as well because your kidneys try to expel the excess sugar out of the blood. When you drink a caffeinated soda to quench your thirst, you will actually become even thirstier. This is why you run for water after you've had a cola.

4. Soda increases your blood pressure.

Yes, people do get sugar high. There is proof that overconsumption of fructose, particularly in the form of soft drinks, leads to an increase in blood pressure.

5. It may lead to heart disease

Drinking soda in average known quantities may result in 48% increased risk of metabolic syndrome, a key predecessor of heart disease and diabetes. This is why heart patients are prescribed to keep off of soda.

6. Soda destroys your teeth.

As such we don't take care of our teeth. And on top of that we eat and drink all junk food and soft drinks. Soda eats up and dissolves the tooth enamel. This means doubling or tripling the incidence of tooth decay.

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Let us educate you on the fact that soda is acidic in nature and the acidity can dissolve the mineral content of the enamel, making the teeth weaker, more sensitive, and more susceptible to decay. 

You can consider sugar candies healthier when compared to soda. Soda's acidity makes it even worse for teeth than the solid sugar found in candy.

Dental experts continue to urge that people drink less soda pop, especially between meals, to prevent tooth decay and dental erosion. Don't be puzzled, dental erosion is as important as soil erosion!!

7. It makes you fat

As sweet and tasty it is, soda has enormous amounts of calories associated with it. Many people either forget or don't realize how many extra calories they consume in what they drink. Drinking a single 330 ml can a day of sugary drinks translates to more than 1lb of weight gain every month.

It’s not completely wrong when they say drinking soda makes you fat. Soft drinks are directly related to weight gain, each additional soda consumed, the risk of obesity increases 1.6 times.

Adding on to that, more you drink soda, more the fat deposits around your belly area and you look fat with a hump!!

According to study, reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages helped reduce body mass index in the heaviest teenagers.

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