Posted on 09/07/2009 10:20:32 PM PDT by neverdem
Two cans of fizzy drink a day could cause long term liver damage, resulting in the need for a transplant, according to new research.
Researchers are now urging parents to cut back on their children’s consumption of fizzy drinks as well as reducing fresh fruit juices substituting them for water.
Liver damage is normally associated with alcohol abuse but the new study has found that non-alcoholic drinks with a high sugar content can cause a condition called fatty liver disease.
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Even drinking a couple of cans of fizzy drinks a day raised the risk of liver damage in addition to causing diabetes and heart damage.
Doctors at the Ziv Liver unit in Haifa, Israel compared two groups of volunteers – neither of whom had a risk for developing fatty liver disease.
The group of 90 people, 45 men and 45 women aged 40-50, were asked about their level of physical activity, caloric intake and the amount of soft drinks they consume.
When they finished the study they found that 80 per cent of those who had consumed fizzy drinks and fruit juices had fatty liver changes. But only 17 per cent of the control group who had not drunk fizzy drinks developed fatty livers.
Dr Nimer Assy, who led the study, said his research - published in the Journal of Hepatology - showed long term consumption could result in liver failure and the potential need for a transplant
“We found people who drink more than two cans of Coke a day have increased their chances for a fatty liver, and if left untreated...,”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Tea Tottlers rules!
I refuse to drink water.......fish have sex in it !
doh!
Sounds to me that the cause and effect “found” in the study was purely statistical and we must take it on faith that the exploration was thorough enough to hone it down to this cause and this cause only. “Oh yeah, we forgot to ask them if they ...” could be the death of the study, not the subjects. Hardly something upon which to base policy.
As Thomas ( Stonewall ) Jackson said “ God has a fixed time for man to die, and until then, I wish all men would be as brave as these men “ ....
Kill yourself all you'd like.
But belching all that CO2 and killing the planet is unacceptable.
I don’t know about long-term liver disease, but soda will kill a keyboard in seconds.
What is the treatment?
No sugar or artificial sweetener is the key according to these folks. I don't know why they mention 'fizz' since that is not what they say causes the trouble. How about Kool-aid or Gatorade?
The baby boomers should all be dead or having liver transplants by now since they are the first generation raised on soft drinks.
Yet somehow life expectancy keeps going up, even for the boomers.
Just wait a month or two. There'll be a study saying yes, they do.
Well, they won't let me drink beer at work!
(If they did, I'd be more productive.)
I realized I was drinking too much diet soda (a gallon a day) and cut way back. A lot of problems I've had with muscle weakness in my hands and arms improved markedly. If you drink more than a few cans of soda a day and are having muscle problems, I highly suggest you cut way back. So says Doctor (fake one) Driftless.
See my other post on this thread.
Sounds like the problem is sugar, not fizz — so would diet sodas be a problem?
Geez, they don't mention the physical activity aspect in the results of their test? Sounds like they have an anti-soft drink agenda. I'd venture to say that two sodas aday are mostly consumed by those who lead a sedentary lifestyle. It is the lack of exercise that leads to fatty liver problems.
Not buyin’ it.
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