Even One Soda A Day Can Turn Into Heart Disease

In a study conducted by the The American Heart Association, as reported by CNN, 53% of the 6,000 people they followed for four years, who had one or more soft drinks per day, developed metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is what they are calling a host of health problems --high blood pressure, low levels of "good" cholesterol, high waist circumference" and other health problems -- that have been strongly linked to developing heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

Even I would have thought that one soda per day couldn't cause such damage but I was wrong.

"The point is that the risk is high no matter how many soft drinks one consumes and no matter what type of soft drink one consumes," said Dr. Ramachandran S. Vasan, associate professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and one of the study authors. "This adds to what we already know about how soft drinks may be associated with weight gain and metabolic risk."

So back to water and green tea!