By Asunta SimolokaSoft drinks, defined as carbonated, non alcoholic beverages, are typical in modern diets. Some experts have dubbed added sugar in soft drinks as an ‘invisible killer.’
Added sugar is extracted sugar, like table sugar, added to food, it should not be confused with healthy sugar that naturally exists in food, fruit, for instance, comes with its own naturally occurring sugar.
Added sugar in soft drinks forms huge fat deposits in the liver, causing non alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that could result in liver failure, possibly requiring liver transplant.
Additionally, fatty liver disease is a major contributor to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. What’s more, added sugar is converted into belly fat, covering vital organs including the heart and creating even more diseases.
The ability of insulin to control blood glucose is deeply impaired by added sugar in soft drinks, leading to high blood sugar and excess insulin, setting the stage for Diabetes to develop.
The detrimental effects of added sugar and other bad ingredients have prompted calls to have soft drinks and processed red meats carry warning labels alerting consumers to potential health hazards, just like cigarettes do. This is hilarious, in a book ‘skinny bitch’ sugar is referred to as ‘the devil’ and soft drinks ‘liquid Satan’ to emphasize how gravely harmful added sugar is.
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et soft drinks, which replace added sugar with artificial sweeteners, are not any better.
Aspartame, an artificial sweetener, and caramel, an artificial colorant, are high in advanced glycation end products, harmful compounds that also cause fatty liver, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart problems, and inflammation.
Additionally, advanced glycation end products in diet soft drinks set off many diabetes complications and damage tissue in blood vessels and kidneys.
Making the nutritional value even worse, soft drinks lower calcium levels resulting in a weak skeleton and contain caffeine, an agent for dehydration. 
Furthermore, soft drinks deplete potassium, imperative for maintaining normal heart beat and blood pressure. Potassium deficiency leads to irregular heart beat and hypertension.
Water, green tea, rooibos tea, and a variety of herbal teas are healthier, avoid green tea made for slimming, it has harmful laxatives.
Weight management tip
Eat about six mini meals throughout the day spaced two to three hours apart
I am really worried about the diet drinks which I think are becoming popular. DO we have any regulations on these as a country? Aspartame is found in lot of the “light” soft drinks we are consuming including sugar free gums. We need regulatory bodies in our as it is a known fact that is among the countries leading cancer cases
this is so nice and beneficial to human life, so if you love your life follow as she says you wont loose anything but gain so much more.
Very educative article madam.You have concentrated so very much on diabetes,come down 2 the Zambian case with diseases commonly affecting us.I enjoy reading your health insights.Be assured.
Be broadbased on health topics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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and so such an important topic,people dont want to comment. but would rather comment on nonsense like politics. umuntu is bringing you slavation,tamulefwaya nokubelenga. Thats why you are being lied to that HIV causes AIDS and you accept it without questions or proof. asunta,you are beautiful my sister and thankyou for the timely advise and warning.