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Posted on 06/12/2026 6:52:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
Drinks can spike blood sugar and increase risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, doctors say
The latest beverage trend is far from clean – and it’s raising red flags with doctors.
Known as a "dirty soda," it’s a soft drink that also includes a combination of added ingredients, such as flavored syrups, creamers, fruit juices and other garnishes. The result is a sweet beverage that’s a combination of a soda, mocktail and dessert.
Dirty sodas can easily deliver 250-400 calories and 55-70 grams of sugar in a single drink – which is often more than double the American Heart Association’s daily added sugar limit, according to Erin Palinski-Wade, a New Jersey-based registered dietitian.
"It’s more like a dessert beverage than a soft drink, even if people use diet soda as the base," she told Fox News Digital.
The drinks are most dangerous for those with insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes, Palinski-Wade warned.
"The combination of rapidly absorbed sugar plus cream can cause sharp blood sugar spikes and crashes, driving hunger, fatigue and higher insulin demands," she cautioned.
The trend is said to have originated in Utah years ago at a specialty soda shop, Swig, reportedly due to people in the Mormon faith seeking an alternative to coffee. The drink was then popularized by social media and TV shows, such as "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives," according to Eater.com.
The dirty soda trend is widely credited to Swig, a Utah-based soda shop founded in 2010. The concept reportedly gained popularity in Utah, where many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abstain from coffee and alcohol, helping create demand for customizable, non-alcoholic drinks.
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I grew up drinking egg creams at our local soda fountain. I think we paid 10 cents for them. When I’ve told my kids about them the say ugh!
There’s enough sugar in one of those sodas, if I had one and a big Idaho baker, I be in a diabetic coma. The spuds here in Idaho look good. I hope we have enough irrigation water to get them to the cellars.
As if the regular soda drinks are anything other than metabolic poison.
I used to be totally addicted to Pepsi. Quit it cold and in just a few weeks my health and vitality noticeably improved. That was 20 years ago and now, at 71, I feel better than I did at 40.
Also called a Farmer’s Soda
Ah, yes— the “but doctors warn,” “but experts warn” tripe.
Soda might be bad. It might make you obese, it might give you cancer. Diet soda— immoral! But then again, spending hours a day glued to MSN or CNN will do the same thing, in shorter time.
I roll my eyes every time a news outlet serves up another story framed through the lens of scolding experts. Their so-called grassroots concern is often just paid solicitation to add authority to a story the news agency has already written. I know this to be true because the literary template is almost never broken.
“But” doctors warn of health risks? It should say “and” doctors warn of health risks. I am thinking that there are no writers who know English.
Just stick to DQ Blizzards for your sugar boosts.
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Last week I learned that Joe South wrote “Hush”, the Deep Purple hit. And they didn’t change it much from the original.
I remember that song. It had a good energy to it.
A lot of percussion in the refrain.
Okay, I’m convinced. Neat or on the rocks is the way to go.
EC
I rember Joe. He had some great stuff & I still play him occasionally.
A Coke is 55 g of sugar
No, it’s 55 grams of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!..........😣
It depends on where it is from
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