Cold Drink: In summer, you may often drink sweet beverages like cold drinks to cool your body. But do you know how harmful it is?
Knowingly or unknowingly, along with drinking cold drinks, you are consuming a lot of sugar. So much sugar increases the risk of obesity in you in just a few days, and can also cause serious diseases like type-2 diabetes, heart-related diseases, and fat accumulation in the liver.
Recent research on beverages revealed that all of these contain more sugar than required, which can spoil your health to a great extent. Apart from sugar, every bottle contains things like caffeine, and phosphoric acid, which can make you very sick if consumed in excess. Therefore, now whenever you drink cold drinks, think about your health once.
Cold Drink: Every bottle is harmful
A report published in the Science Direct journal revealed that the ingredients of most soft drinks contain harmful elements that cause great harm to your body and can cause serious diseases. Artificial flavors, sweeteners (sugar), carbon dioxide, coloring agents, acidulants (which give a pungent, sour, or acidic taste to food items), and chemicals are added to cold drinks. The most important thing is that many companies do not even provide information about the quality of colors and the chemicals being added to cold drinks.
Cold drink or sugar water
Sugar is given the status of “White Poison”. If you consume too much sugar, you can become a victim of serious diseases. If media reports are to be believed, 9 to 10 grams of sugar is present in a 750 ml bottle of cold drink available in India. Specialists of the American Heart Association recommend not to consume more than 30 grams of sugar daily. If you drink cold drinks even three times a day, then it causes more sugar than the prescribed amount to reach the body, which can be harmful for the body. Apart from this, they neither contain fiber nor any other nutrients necessary for the body. With every bottle, a large amount of such elements are going into the body due to which you can become a victim of many chronic diseases.
Poison for heart, liver
You must have heard that a short-term benefit can cause harm for a lifetime. This cold drink is exactly like this, after drinking it you will feel cool for a while but later it will harm your body from within. Soft drinks are full of fructose which the liver is unable to break down properly. The result of this is that it keeps accumulating in your liver over time. This can put you at risk of long-term fatty liver disease. You can also get type-2 diabetes from this. The risk of heart disease also increases by 50 percent.
What is the expert’s advice?
Whenever you are drinking cold drinks, excess sugar reaches your body with every sip. We are already taking excess sugar knowingly or unknowingly from things like biscuits, and coffee, and on top of that cold drinks increase these risks further.
These drinks sold in the market in the name of orange-cumin-mango have more chemical flavors for taste while their actual quantity is much less. These drinks can be the main reason for increasing obesity in children and fatty liver problems in people who do not drink alcohol.
