What changes will happen to your body if you drink beverages for a long time? I was sweating after reading this...

In the hot summer, wouldn’t you feel happy if you could have an iced drink?

Many people have also heard this saying, "Drinking a beverage makes you feel good for a while, and you will feel better all the time if you keep drinking it"?

Wait! Can I really drink beverages for a long time?

Let’s look at these real cases: What happened to those who drank beverages for a long time?

1. Drinking too much will cause diabetes!

In 2018, Youth Times reported a 37-year-old Mr. Chen. In the summer, when the weather gradually became hot, Mr. Chen often took beverages as water. When he encountered work problems, he felt depressed and couldn't eat, so he drank beverages as meals for several days in a row. Not long after, Mr. Chen was surprised to find that he had lost weight!

"Can drinking Coke help me lose weight?" Mr. Chen couldn't help but think of this. So, in the following days, Mr. Chen drank several bottles of Coke every day, and at most, he drank 8 bottles a day.

After 4 months, Mr. Chen lost 70 kilograms, from a "heavyweight" of 210 kilograms to 140 kilograms.

At that time, he did not realize that his sudden weight loss was actually caused by illness, and drinking too much would only make the condition worse. Later, he developed symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, but he did not pay attention to it.

Until one day he suddenly fell into a coma and was rushed to the hospital. The doctor finally diagnosed him with severe diabetic ketoacidosis and his life was in danger at any time. Subsequently, Mr. Chen was sent to the intensive care unit, where he was rescued and treated for a full week before he was out of danger.

Shen Shengqiang, deputy director of the First Department of Internal Medicine at the Second People's Hospital of Yuhang District, Hangzhou, said in an interview, "Long-term consumption of large amounts of carbonated beverages will increase the risk of diabetes, because carbonated beverages contain a lot of sugar. Excessive intake of sugar can easily lead to a rapid rise in blood sugar. Over time, the pancreatic islet function will decline, making it very easy to develop type 2 diabetes."

Since then, Mr. Chen has stopped drinking beverages. However, diabetes will accompany him for the rest of his life.

2. The teeth are rotten to the roots!

A 5-year-old boy only drank beverages and no water every day, causing all 14 of his teeth to rot.

According to a report in the Wuhan Evening News in 2015, 8 of the 20 teeth were rotten to the point that only the roots were left, and 6 were broken at the roots. Not only did the 5-year-old boy have difficulty eating, but now he can't even speak clearly.

Peng Youjian, director of the Department of Stomatology at Wuhan University People's Hospital, who treated the boy, said, "This is the worst tooth I have ever seen in my 30 years as a dentist. The pH value of most beverages, especially carbonated beverages, is usually between 2.2 and 4.9, while the dissolution threshold of the enamel on the surface of the teeth is 5. In addition, the high sugar content in the beverage will also ferment and produce acid, causing the enamel to demineralize and dissolve."

3. Gained 38 pounds in one month!

On the Internet, a man who came to the United States wanted to prove the harmful effects of beverages, so he insisted on drinking Coke for a month.

We have to admit that this man is very powerful. He drinks 10 bottles of Coke every day for a month, which means he drinks about 300 bottles a month.

In order to make the experiment more reliable, he did not change any other lifestyle habits except drinking these 10 bottles of Coke every day.

In addition to drinking 10 bottles of Coke every day, he would also check his body regularly to measure his blood sugar or blood pressure. After drinking Coke for a few days, he obviously found that his body had changed, but he had become addicted to drinking Coke. If he didn't drink it for a day, he would feel uncomfortable all over and become very haggard. A month soon passed, and we also noticed the changes in the man.

He weighed 152 catties at the beginning, but increased to 190 catties after one month, gaining 38 catties in one month.

Why are sugary drinks so harmful?

1. The biggest danger in beverages comes from "sugar"

The sugar content of each bottle of beverage is between 30 and 60 grams. Even green tea beverages labeled as sugar-free or low-sugar contain 20 grams of sugar per bottle.

In February 2012, an article titled “Public health: The toxic truth about sugar” published in Nature, a top international academic journal, pointed out that sugar is like tobacco and alcohol, and its harm is far greater than fat and calories.

In addition, researchers have also proved through animal experiments that sugar addiction has a dual effect.

On the one hand, sugar affects hormones in the body, preventing the brain from sending signals of fullness, causing people to eat more and more and become addicted, wanting to continue eating even when their stomachs are full. On the other hand, sugar's impact on hormones in the body is also manifested in causing the brain to continuously send signals to consume sugar, just like a smoking addiction, people who eat sugar will love it more and more.

In 2019, a 34-year follow-up study of 118,000 Americans published in the top international medical journal Circulation showed that the more sugary drinks you drink, the greater the risk of premature death.

2. Many beverages contain fructose syrup

Many people will equate "high fructose corn syrup" with health and naturalness when they first hear the name. However, this is all an illusion, and you have been deceived by it!

In fact, there is neither fruit nor glucose in high fructose corn syrup. It is a sweetener obtained from corn starch by enzymatic hydrolysis. It is named high fructose corn syrup because it contains both glucose and fructose.

Fructose is more harmful to health.

One reason is that fructose does not have the ability to produce a fullness signal in the brain, which means you will eat more.

Second, the metabolism rate of fructose in the body is slower than that of glucose and sucrose. Although the metabolism of fructose does not rely on insulin, studies have found that fructose is more easily converted into triglycerides than glucose after entering the body, ultimately producing more fat and storing it in the internal organs. Not only that, long-term intake of large amounts of fructose will also lead to increased insulin resistance.

Since its creation in 1970, it has enabled Americans to:

The obesity rate has tripled from 13% to 40% today.

The incidence of gout has tripled from 3% in 1970 to 9% in 1996.

The incidence of diabetes has increased 7.5 times from less than 1% in 1958 to 7.4% in 2015.

Some people even say that "high fructose corn syrup" has become the second "great invention" of the food industry that harms humanity after hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans fatty acids).

Of all the drinks you drink, boiled water is still the healthiest!

Many people have drunk all kinds of high-end beverages in their lives, but in the end they found that the healthiest thing is still a glass of boiled water. Previously, a cardiovascular doctor told the true story of his friend:

My friend's career is quite successful and he has constant social engagements. He often tells me about the various high-end wines and drinks he has drunk. When he is busy, he doesn't even drink water, but always has drinks and coffee in his mouth. He uses expensive wine and drinks for all social occasions. As long as he hears about something that is good for health or expensive, he wants to try it, thinking that this is in line with his status.

Finally, he was lying in bed due to cerebrovascular disease. He asked the doctor what to drink, and the doctor told him: just boiled water! Only then did he realize that after drinking so many fine wines and expensive drinks, it turned out that the best and most useful thing was still water.

Source: Health Times