Diabetes Warning: Twice The Amount Of Soft Drinks Consumed, Twice The Risk Of Diabetes

Diabetes leads to more complicated diseases such as heart failure and results to death. As many would know the number one cause of diabetes is sugar and artificial sweeteners. Now, research  shows that a little as two soft drinks increases the risk of diabetes.

A team of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden conducted a study and found that drinking more than two 200ml soft drinks can double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. But for some worst case of having a soft drink, drinking habit per say consumption of at least five drinks a day the risk of having the disease could shoot up more than 10 times.

Not only that, researchers also found that an increased risk of having a less common condition known as LADA or latent autoimmune diabetes in adults. LADA shares the characteristics of both type 1 and types 2 diabetes. 

To further explain, the type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease most of the cases it is hereditary, it wipes out the cells the produced insulin in the pancreas. For patients with type 1 diabetes, it requires them to have a constant insulin injection. As for the type 2 diabetes, it changes how the way the body responds to insulin. It is usually caused by obesity and lifestyle, which in the UK alone 3 million adults suffers from type 2 diabetes.

Meanwhile, researchers studied the 2,874 Swedish adults soft drink consumption and compared them with  rates of diabetes. The study Lead scientist Dr. Josefin Edwall Lofvenborg said "In this study, we were surprised by the increased risk of developing autoimmune diabetes by drinking soft drinks. We next plan on investigating what could counter this risk, such as eating fatty fish.We are looking into this now using data from eight different countries across Europe," as reported by Daily Mail.

In line, the researchers concluded that soft drinks may increase the risk of both LADA and type 2 diabetes. Because it influences insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism. They noted that it is a relative risk and not an absolute risk. Thus, it is estimated that 1 in every 11 people worldwide have diabetes, according to Medical News Today.