Scientists Discover Link Between Drinking Soda And Early Death

Whether it’s Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, or even Kool-Aid, almost everyone has a favorite soda or drink they adore. And while it’s possible that we all think that some people are better than others, even in terms of health, a recent study appears to refute that notion.

When diet sodas originally came into being, they were considered and were marketed as health drinks. Most people believe that less sugary soda is a safer option than the sugary variety, despite the fact that we now know it to be untrue.

Unfortunately, it isn’t the case at all.

Researchers found that when we drink two or more sugary or even diet soft drinks per day, as opposed to one or fewer, we are at higher risk for early death. The study was published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer followed 451,000 adults from 10 European nations to draw these conclusions. None of the individuals had diabetes, cancer, heart disease, or a stroke. This study, the first of its kind to be conducted in Europe, followed these people for 19 years.

They discovered that people who drank two or more sugary drinks per day had a higher risk of developing digestive disorders, liver issues, pancreatic issues, and other conditions. Similar amounts of artificially sweetened beverages were associated with an increased risk of circulatory disease-related death.

The intake of “fizzy soft drinks,” “low calorie or diet fizzy soft drinks,” and “fruit squash or cordials” was examined, according to CNN (Fruit squash is much like our American kool-aid from what I gather.)

It’s also important to note that having two or more sugary drinks each day can boost a person’s chance of dying young by up to 63% in women and 29% in men.

The researchers did highlight that there may be a connection between soft drink use and other hazardous behaviors.

Lead researcher Neil Murphy said, “In our study, high soft drink consumers had a higher body mass index (BMI) and were also more likely to be current smokers.”

The favorable connections persisted after we applied statistical adjustments for BMI, smoking behaviors, and other mortality risk variables that may have skewed our results.

Nevertheless, despite all of that, they continue to hold that the study demonstrated a definite connection between use of soda and other soft drinks and early death. The findings “support public health efforts targeted at decreasing the consumption of soft drinks,” the researchers said. “This analysis demonstrated that consumption of total, sugar-sweetened, and artificially sweetened soft drinks was positively linked with all-cause fatalities in this large European cohort.”

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