Coca-Cola Versus Pepsi

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Soda won't kill you unless you have other health problems..

Not gonna preach (and I hate "working" when I'm not at work), but ignorant statements are ignorant. This is just a little bit from a sheet I circulate among my PT clients (the few parts I felt like typing, basically):

-According to research in the Nurse's Health Study, which monitored the health of 90,000 women for eight years, drinking a single soda every day of the week added 10 pounds over a four-year period.

-In the same study, women who said they drank one or more servings a day of a sugar-sweetened soft drink or fruit punch were twice as likely to have developed type-2 diabetes during the study than those who rarely consumed those beverages.

-According to a study published in 2007 in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, subjects who drank a soda every day over a four-year period had a 25% chance of developing high blood sugar levels and a 32% greater chance of developing lower HDL/"good" cholesterol levels. The Nurses' Health Study found that women who drank more than two sugary drinks per day had a 40% higher risk of heart attacks or death from heart disease than women who rarely drank those same beverages.

So, essentially, it will cause those "other health problems" eventually if you don't take care of yourself otherwise. You know how many vegetarians or straight-up vegans I work with who are 300lbs, diabetic, or both, and the only "bad" stuff they consume is soda and cereal? It's a lot of 'em.

Again, people can do whatever they want and it's their business, but your statement was patently false and deserved a serious response. I only do three "Serious Responses" per year, so don't waste it.