Do you always drink soda for lunch? Was in the refrigerator at home there are always 1-2 cans of soda? Do you feel something is missing if you don’t drink soda every day? If you often say yes, there are bad habits that you should stop!

Soft drinks become the world’s second drink people favored. Although recently sales of soft drinks in the United States experienced a slight decrease doesn’t mean the soda drink is not popular anymore. You should refer to these important facts about sodas.

Soda: Only Liquid calories

Each can or bottle of sweet carbonated drinks provide only a supply of hundreds of calories but not the substance of important nutrients. In fact, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, soda is the only largest source of calories in the American menu, representing 7% of all caloric needs.

Soda is also base of some health problems, many studies found that soda related to obesity. For example, research on school children in Massachusetts found that each additional daily sugary drink to children will make obesity increased by 60%.

‘Research sponsored by the beverage industry finds no link between soda and obesity in children. Research funded by the other parties to get different results, ‘said David Katz, MD, a professor of public health practice at the Yale School of Medicine.

Soda is often associated with many health problems. Many studies have found that soda can increase the risk of diabetes. Everybody knows soda can damage tooth enamel. Also, some research found that soda can increase the risk of osteoporosis by cutting off milk in the menu. Caffeine can affect the absorption of calcium.

Issue of osteoporosis is a problem for adults and teenagers, who tend to drink lots of soda.

‘The time to reach the bone density in a very short life, and during that time the girl child should drink plenty of milk and reduce the soda, but the opposite happened’, said Alison Field, Dsc, professor at Harvard Medical School and researcher in child obesity case children, adults and women.

Is it safe to Switch to Diet Soda?

Research on this is less clear. A study published in the journal Circulation in January 2008 found that people who drink diet soda once a day risk 34% higher in the face of the metabolic syndrome that includes the health problems of overweight, increases in blood sugar that triggers diabetes.

In addition to animal studies also found that diet soda can lead addicted to sweet foods. Perhaps this makes sense. “We have a’ sweet tooth ‘, not’ sugar tooth ‘. Candy to give food to the ‘sweet tooth’ and more candy will continue to be acquired was less” Katz explained.

However, Barry Popkin, PhD a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, noted that research on human soda doesn’t include the type of food eaten by the type of soda drinkers of soda drinkers who eat healthy foods and soda drinker type remained eating junk food. This last mentioned is they who are at risk of metabolic syndrome.

Avoiding Drink Soda

If you know that the sweet soda doesn’t bring benefits, how you can avoid fizzy drinks?

If it was not a marathon runner, should not have to drink soda very large calories. Some of these things you can try.

* Try changing slowly sweet soda with a diet. ‘Not very satisfying, but to avoid obesity, you should drink diet soda.

* Reduce gradually; instead of soft drinks (or diet soda) every day with alternative beverages. The best is water. Drinking water is healthier. Biologically our bodies need plenty of water. From a series of studies proved that there is an extra metabolic effect of drinking water.

* If you want something that is the flavor, try a flavored mineral water that is free of calories.

* If you want caffeine, it’s better to drink tea or coffee with a little sugar.

* You don’t need to throw a soda at all. ‘If you really want to, could be limited but not eliminated altogether necessary, you can’t keep going,’ Field suggested.