What Is The Long Term Affect of Drinking a Can of Soda a Day?

Does Your Health Changes if You Drink a Can of Soda a Day Over a Long Period of Time?

On Tue Jun 7, 2011 at 4:58am PDT Bliss Tree, posted an article with the question, "What happens to your body after you drink a soda every day, for a long time?" to its followers.  The article must have pinched a nerve in many people because it was shared 13k times on Facebook.  

I reposted the first 3 paragraphs of the article here; however you can get the full story at the link below.

Sugar rushes and caffeine highs followed by a depressing energy crash are what happens to your body if you drink a soda right now, but plenty of Blisstree readers actually seem to be okay with that. Some of you think it’s alarmist to compare a caffeine and sugar rush to doing drugs, and some just don’t really care about the slump they’ll find themselves in after drinking 39 grams of sugar, but what makes us really worried about a soda-slurping habit is what happens over the long term. 

Here’s a quick snapshot of you, in a few years, after drinking soda on a regular basis:

You’ll Be Fatter: According to research in the Nurse’s Health Study, which monitored the health of 90,000 women for eight years, drinking a single soda every day of the week added 10 pounds over a four-year period.

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You’ll Probably Have Diabetes: In the Nurses’ Health Study, women who said they drank one or more servings a day of a sugar-sweetened soft drink or fruit punch were twice as likely to have developed type 2 diabetes during the study than those who rarely consumed these beverages.  You can get the full story  here.