Harvard Researchers Link Soda To Cancer And Heart Disease In New Study

Researchers have been warning us for years that a daily soda habit could reap us tremendous negative consequences in the future.

Various studies have previously suggested that there might be a link between sugary sodas and heart disease.

Scientists have even discovered similar findings with diet sodas too. Many nutrition experts have also claimed that sodas which are loaded with artificial sweeteners, aren't any better as a healthy beverage choice than the sugar-filled alternatives that we've used to.

Researchers have also previously asserted that there could also be a link between diet soda and early death.

More recently, Harvard researchers have again linked high soda consumption with heart disease, along with breast and colon cancer.

The study had involved thousands of participants, over 100k, who reported their own diet data between 1986 and 2014. Because they had self-reported this information, researchers have noted, this makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions between the diet consumption and the health results. There is a chance that they could've omitted or overstated certain information for example.

In their study, the researchers discovered that the participants who had reported that they consumed more sugar-sweetened drinks like soda, were seen to have been at risk of heart disease as a result.

It's estimated that those who consumed more than 2 services per day had roughly a 33 percent increased risk of death from stroke or heart disease etc.

They noted that each serving that was consumed per day had increased the risk of heart disease-related death by 10 percent. They also differentiated between sodas that were sweetened with sugar and those with artificial sweeteners. They estimated that by replacing one serving per day of sugar soda with artificially-sweetened soda, that you could lower the risk of mortality by at least 4 percent, heart disease related death by at least 5 percent.

There are other studies though which have made a link between diet soda and increased risk of strokes, among other potential health issues. It can really do a number on your gut and metabolism and has even been shown to cause weight-gain. Despite the popularity of diet drinks as a "healthy alternative," there's been increasing evidence to support the notion that they're anything but.

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