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This Non-Alcoholic Beverage May Be Destroying Your Liver
MSN ^ | 11/18 | Kirk Miller

Posted on 11/18/2021 4:36:54 PM PST by nickcarraway

The liquid causing the most damage to your liver may not actually be booze, according to a new study. It’s soda.

In the new paper (a collaboration between multiple Massachusetts universities), entitled “Sugar-Sweetened Beverage, Diet Soda, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Over 6 Years: The Framingham Heart Study,” researchers looked at the average sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) or diet soda consumption of participants from the long-running Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948. The new research examined 1,636 descendants of the original study, both offspring and third generation.

As the health site Eat This Not That! explains, researchers then weighed these soda self-reports against the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that affects one in four Americans. As the Mayo Clinic notes, “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions affecting people who drink little to no alcohol. As the name implies, the main characteristic of NAFLD is too much fat stored in liver cells.” Fatigue and pain are common symptoms, but advanced scarring (cirrhosis) and liver failure are also possibilities.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: health; soda; sodaliver
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To: nickcarraway

You eat a lot of refined sugar items and drinks, this will occur as well.

You can get cirhossis of the liver from large amounts of refined sugar intake.


41 posted on 11/18/2021 5:30:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

H-E-B
Cascade Ice
Volay(?)
Some others out there that should fit the bill.

Ill drink things sweetened with stevia but it ****** me off when these companies feel the need to add erythritol or any other artificial sweetner.


42 posted on 11/18/2021 5:32:19 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: entropy12

Nope. It’s the texture that I loathe. Raw, steamed, fried, baked, NOPE. Butter on squash is lipstick on a pig, and a waste of food.

As I said, you can have my share. I do love Indian food, though.


43 posted on 11/18/2021 5:36:19 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: itsahoot

Exactly! People sucking down CARBS because the government says it is healthy then get fat and start drinking diet soda. The diet soda is as much an EFFECT of their diet as the fatty liver. Simple CARBS are the joint cause of both!


44 posted on 11/18/2021 5:39:36 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: BipolarBob

Bkmk


45 posted on 11/18/2021 5:47:37 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: nickcarraway

I gave up soda in January and haven’t regretted it once. Feeling so much healthier!


46 posted on 11/18/2021 5:51:18 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: FamiliarFace

Bacon. Pigs eat veggies. They are just reconstituted vegetable matter & water. So.....bourbon soaked Bacon with cane sugar crust


47 posted on 11/18/2021 5:55:08 PM PST by Michigan Bowhunter
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To: nickcarraway
It's MSN, I'll ignore.
48 posted on 11/18/2021 5:57:34 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (It's becoming more difficult to tell the difference between a RINO and a Marxist.)
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To: nickcarraway

I love Sparkling Ice, especially the lemonade one.


49 posted on 11/18/2021 5:58:05 PM PST by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: nickcarraway

“The liquid causing the most damage to your liver may not actually be booze..”

Whew!!


50 posted on 11/18/2021 6:10:58 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: PistolPaknMama

“What if you dump alcohol into the diet soda?”

That is called a diet cocktail


51 posted on 11/18/2021 6:11:04 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles., )
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To: 353FMG

Phosphoric acid is used to maintain the carbonation. Phosphate replaces calcium in your bones - not good. Carbonation it self is not bad. The sweetening agent, sugar.artificial and the phosphoric acid are what you should be concerned with.


52 posted on 11/18/2021 6:12:27 PM PST by jimfr
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To: waterhill
Would like to see the Baker Hotel back open.

*They torn down the haunted house across from White's funeral home.

53 posted on 11/18/2021 6:16:26 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Michigan Bowhunter

Oh, I do eat bacon! Yes, sometimes I do!

Oh, what I really mean is sometimes I eat Bourbon- soaked reconstituted vegetable matter with sugar cane crust. Mmmmm!!

But no more soda for me! 😆


54 posted on 11/18/2021 6:17:38 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Donnafrflorida

” Rarely drank soda either.”

In an office Christmas party about 4 years ago, I was given a 12 pack of Squirt soda (A grapefruit based soda and the only one I like)

I have 6 left.

Bacon is my weakness. And eggs sunny-side-up.


55 posted on 11/18/2021 6:20:46 PM PST by lizma2
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To: Deaf Smith

It is apparently being rehabbed as we speak...

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/inside-the-massive-restoration-of-the-historic-baker-hotel/2641703/


56 posted on 11/18/2021 6:21:13 PM PST by waterhill (Banned.video)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Agree, I can’t stand sugar soda, it makes my mouth icky. I drink sugar free soda when I do drink soda.


57 posted on 11/18/2021 6:25:18 PM PST by Irenic ( )
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To: waterhill

Been in process of rehabitation for years.


58 posted on 11/18/2021 6:29:19 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: nickcarraway

No sugar sweetened soda for me. (no alcohol as well...)

Only diet colas... and the occcassional fruit juice and coffee.


59 posted on 11/18/2021 6:40:48 PM PST by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: kanawa

Do you think artificial sweeteners are better?


60 posted on 11/18/2021 6:48:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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