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Carbonated beverages are associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of cardiac origin, according to results from the All-Japan Utstein Registry presented for the first time today at ESC Congress. The study in nearly 800,000 patients suggests that limiting consumption of carbonated beverages may be beneficial for health.
"Some epidemiologic studies have shown a positive correlation between the consumption of soft drinks and the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke, while other reports have demonstrated that the intake of green tea and coffee reduced the risk and mortality of CVD," said principal investigator Professor Keijiro Saku, Dean and professor of cardiology at Fukuoka University in Japan. "Carbonated beverages, or sodas, have frequently been demonstrated to increase the risk of metabolic syndrome and CVD, such as subclinical cardiac remodeling and stroke. However, until now the association between drinking large amounts of carbonated beverages and fatal CVD, or out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) of cardiac origin, was unclear."
In other words, put the soda down and back away slowly... Is there a safer way to make our beverages bubbly?
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(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:06PM
Anecdotes about how an individual consumes a certain diet and doesn't incur certain symptoms is of no scientific value. Only populations with measured diets and activities are useful, because there *is* a different in our personal genetics and how we adapt to our environments. You have a point about denial...!
The problem is not the "can of soda" per se. It is usually used as a quantity of calorific value that is relatable to a non-technical audience.
If you are consuming 150 kCals of food more than your body needs, then by definition it will get stored. In mammals this is body fat.
Hence, if you consume "the equivalent" of 140 kCals/day (12oz coke) that is 1lb of fat every 25 days. So 12lbs/year.
The FDA figures for daily calorie consumption are almost complete fiction. If you are overweight, you are eating too much. That's physics, although it can be hard to accept for some.The optimistic FDA published figures have probably lead to the general problem of under-estimating calorie consumption, and over-estimating exercise exertion.
In 100% of cases, changing the ratio of diet/exerise will change your bodyfat composition, assuming there is not a prevailing physiological condition (very rare mitochondria disorders), and if you are physically able.
But sugar and in particular HFCS is poison. This makes it much more difficult to judge calorie value than, say, a piece of fruit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @07:27AM
Perhaps in your part of the world. Over here we invented something called "the toilet", where you can go crap out excessive stuff.
How much of the excessive energy your body stores and how much goes straight to crap depends very much on the individual. That's why some people can eat like three regular people, consider "exercise" a threat on par with "murder", and yet stay skinny.