Sugary Drinks Increase Risk of Diabetes

Sugary soft drinks increase your risk of type 2 diabetes affected. Each additional consumption of cans or bottles (340 ml) sweetened drinks a day increases the likelihood of contact with type 2 diabetes by 22%. The more you drink a sweetener sugar, the more likely you to get type 2 diabetes. Thus the conclusions of a large study done in England Imperial College London and eight other European countries. From 330 234 people followed over 16 years of scrutiny, of 12 403 people develop type 2 diabetes.

As we know, type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by insulin resistance and especially associated with genetic factors (heredity) and lifestyle. Indonesia occupies the 4th world order with total patients above 21 million people. According Riskesdas 2007, diabetes is the number-two cause of death in urban Indonesia.

Although the study can not prove a cause-effect relationship between the consumption of sugary drinks definitely with diabetes, but the relationship between them is very strong. Increased risk only dropped slightly to about 18% after adjusting findings to calculate body mass index (BMI). It shows that not just being overweight that cause trends.

In previous studies, the consumption of sugar berpemanis drink a can a day was associated with an increased incidence of type 2 diabetes in the U.S. population by 25%. These findings suggest that the same correlation is also happening in Europe. Sugary drinks can lead to type 2 diabetes because of its effect on weight. In addition, the drink has a glycemic effect can cause rapid surge in blood glucose, as well as disruption of the hormone insulin, which normally regulate blood sugar.

The authors also observed a significant increase in the incidence of diabetes associated with soft drink consumption berpemanis made, but the relationship disappeared after taking BMI of participants, which may indicate that the relationship is not causal but driven by the participant's body weight. Consumption of fruit juice and honey is not significantly associated with incident diabetes.

Well, after getting the information above, do you still want to consume sugary drinks every day? Other times of sweet tea or coca cola, the better you order fresh tea or plain water only. More economical and more healthy!