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Why Women Should Avoid Sugary Drinks? As reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 26.8 million Americans have heart disease, which is the nation's number one killer. Some risk factors for heart disease like family history and genes are not modifiable, but many others are controllable. Overweight and obesity, for instance, have been accused as one of the most wanted risk factors for heart disease. They are mostly result of modern lifestyle and eating habits and people can always manage their body weight by choosing to eat healthy stuffs and do more physical activities. While some large studies conducted previously have already linked drinking sugary drinks to heart disease, people still cannot stay away from sugar-sweetened drinks. Report from the California Department of Public Health showed that the average American consumes 50 gallons of sweetened beverages a year. During the American Heart Association's meeting in Orlando, Fla. held on November 13, 2011, researchers from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center reported that women who drank 2 or more sugary beverages (sweet tea, soda, or coffee drinks that look like desserts) every day might raise their risk for heart disease, even if they did not gain weight.
In order to examine the association between sugary drinks and individual risk factors including blood pressure, cholesterol and obesity, the researchers kicked off a 5-year study by following 4,166 people who aged between 45 and 84 and were part of the larger Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis study. Only women, and not men, who had a sugary drinking habit, were found to develop high levels of triglycerides. Women who drank 2 or more sugary beverages per day were 4 times more likely to develop high triglyceride levels than other women who drank fewer sugary drinks. Women who like liquid sugar habit were also more likely to develop abnormal levels of fasting glucose, which is a sign that they could be getting diabetes. The researchers stressed that these tasty sweetened drinks might be influencing heart disease risk factors even if people do not gain weight. This is because many women in the study experienced expanding waistlines without gaining weight. Such belly fat has been found to have a negative effect on heart health. You might wonder why sugar has connection to heart disease. According to heart specialists, when a person consumes a sugary drink, all the sugar comes rushing into this person’s system. This is very different from eating complex carbohydrates like oatmeal when the sugar releases gradually into the blood. If this person is unable to use the hormone insulin to regulate blood sugar, the extra sugar remains circulating in the blood. This would disrupt metabolism in several ways. The triglycerides would be increased and good cholesterol would be decreased. This will in turn prompt the body to produce bad cholesterol. Too much sugar can also cause the levels of inflammation, another risk of heart disease, to rise. The fat right below the skin can often be sucked out by liposuction. But the fat around the organs in the center of the body produces hormones that make people more likely to get diabetes, higher blood pressure and higher triglycerides. For women who were middle aged and older, the post-menopausal hormonal shifts might make it more difficult to keep the weight off the waists. Women should be careful with habit of drinking sugary beverages partly because women have smaller frames than men and hence they need to pay extra attention on calorie intake. In fact, people do realize the danger of drinking sugary beverages. A study conducted by researchers from the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Center for Science in the Public Interest and Interlex Communications reported on May 8, 2012 that the majority of Americans are aware of the effect of liquid sugar sources on obesity, diabetes and other metabolic conditions. A majority of the respondents believed that consumption of sugary drinks was not part of a healthy diet and they wanted to reduce their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. Moreover, the majority of respondents thought that 2 or fewer sugary beverages a week would be a healthy change.
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