Drinking soda changes how your body absorbs sugar from all foods

Bye-bye, high sugar.

A new study suggests that drinking soda can be even worse for the body than previously thought.

A team of scientists from the TATA Institute of Basic Research has found that regular consumption of sweet drinks such as soda and spicy teas causes a disturbing adaptation in the body, making the intestinal effect determine the advantage of absorbing sugar over other nutrients.

Researchers have invented this worrying phenomenon “molecular addiction”, and their findings suggest that our dangerous dietary habits can recover our metabolism.

This latest study, published in the Nutritional Biochemistry newspaper, focused specifically on moderate consumption of sucrose.

For three months, laboratory rats were fed either regular water or water containing 10% sugar on the table, about the same amount found in commercial soda.

Researchers analyzed metabolic changes in both test groups and found that rats gave them sucrose, or table sugar, developed insulin resistance and glucose intolerance.

Sugar, sugar anywhere

Moreover, the adapted intestines to increase the absorption of sugar – means that they absorbed more sugar from all foods, not just soda.

Researchers observed a stroke in proteins that transfer sugar from the intestine to the bloodstream, which resulted in rats to get maximum sugar from everything consumed.

The consumption of the “soda” of mice was also shown to change the way the liver and muscle of the mice, which researchers believe, can aggravate metabolic diseases such as diabetes and non -alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Loss of nutrients

Intestines usually process many different nutrients, including protein, fats and carbohydrates.

But drinking too much sugar disrupts this balance, increasing sugar carriers as it reduces protein and fat carriers.

This suggests that you have a lot of sugar in your diet not only adds calories, but also compromises the body’s ability to absorb and use essential nutrients.

Researchers believe this explains why, despite being dense calorie sugar, excess often leads to desires-and soda cutting can be such a struggle for so much.

These findings suggest a healthier approach to eating can be double difficult, demanding that people overcome psychological and physiological obstacles.

These findings further illustrate why liquid sugar does more damage to the body than the sugar found in solid foods.

Complete foods contain fiber and other ingredients that slow down the absorption of the body of sugar, while sugar in the drink has no such obstacle, leading to a rapid increase in blood sugar that can cause these problematic intestinal adaptations.

The team concluded that consuming sugar -sweetened drinks “causes” molecular addiction “to the intestinal to the irregular absorption of hexosis sugar, and directs diseases such as diabetes and overweight”.

In the United States nearly half of adults drink at least one sugar drink a day, a habit that can lead them to an early grave.

Last year, the American Heart Association supported a study that found that sugar sweetened and artificially can increase the risk of irregular heartbeat, known medical beats such as atrial or “AFIB” fibrillation, up to 20%, a condition may increase the risk of stroke by fivefold.

According to a 2024 study, drinking only two 12-ons soda cans a week can effectively erase the profits of heart health made during exercise.

Meanwhile, last month, researchers at the University of Michigan found you effectively shave 12 minutes away from your longevity whenever you reach your favorite soft drink.