The Dangers Of Soda To Your Health

 The article below is particularly interesting because of late I have been suffering from Acid Reflux.  I tried to figure out what the cause was.  Since I love Soda Water, I decided to avoid it for a few day to test whether I would still have this Acid Reflux.  Well, I have not suffered from it ever since I stopped drinking the fizzy stuff.  Drinking sugary drinks must be that much more harmful to your health.
 
 Researchers Claim:

In related news, research published in the American Journal of Public Health⁸ claims that drinking soda on a daily basis ages your immune cells to a degree similar to that of a daily smoking habit. To reach this conclusion, the researchers studied the effect of sugary sodas on human telomeres.

Every cell in your body contains a nucleus, and inside the nucleus are the chromosomes that contain your genes. The chromosome is made up of two "arms," and each arm contains a single molecule DNA. A typical DNA molecule is about 100 million bases long. It's curled up like a slinky, extending from one end of the chromosome to the other.
At the very tip of each arm of the chromosome is where you'll find the telomere. Your telomeres shorten with time because they cannot replicate completely each time the cell divides. Hence, as you get older, your telomeres get shorter and shorter. As noted by Time Magazine:

“Shorter telomeres have been linked to health detriments like shorter lifespans and more stress, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer...  [Study author Elissa Epel, PhD] and her team analyzed data from 5,309 adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from about 14 years ago.
They found that people who drank more sugary soda tended to have shorter telomeres. Drinking an 8-ounce daily serving of soda corresponded to 1.9 years of additional aging, and drinking a daily 20-ounce serving was linked to 4.6 more years of aging.
The latter, the authors point out, is exactly the same association found between telomere length and smoking... ‘The extremely high dose of sugar that we can put into our body within seconds by drinking sugared beverages is uniquely toxic to metabolism,’ she says.”

Source:http://articles.mercola.com