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Sweetened drinks could be causing heart failure

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BFJG11 Crushed Can of Diet Coke - Oct 2009. Image shot 11/2009. Exact date unknown.
Another reason to avoid fizzy drinks (Picture: Metro)

Just when basics thought there couldn’t be any more bad news about their drink of choice, scientists drop another truth bomb about sweetened drinks.

And we’d only just recovered from the shock that apparently both regular Coke and Diet Coke does all sorts of bad things to you within an hour of drinking.

Things like rotting tooth enamel and triggering insulin, sending the body into ‘fat storage mode’.

The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, showed that consumption of at least two daily servings of sweetened drinks was associated with a 23% heightened risk of developing heart failure, compared with those who didn’t… Read the full story


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