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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

What Would Happen if You Drank Soda for 14 Days?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about what happens to your body when you drink soda.


In a ten-ounce soda, there are up to ten teaspoons of sugar. Instead of cane sugar, soda companies are also using high-fructose corn syrup.


High-fructose corn syrup can create even more problems than cane sugar, especially for the liver. The effects of fructose on the liver are actually similar to the effects of alcohol on the liver.


Fructose creates more fat than glucose, and it doesn’t satisfy. Fructose can potentially lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The high-fructose corn syrup combined with caffeine in soda may lead to issues with your blood pressure, heart, brain, bones, and kidneys. Soda is also a key contributor to childhood obesity.

The sugar in soda feeds unfriendly bacteria, yeast, and fungus. It can also suppress your immune system and make you more susceptible to infections. This can lead to other issues, including increased tumor growth.


It’s crucial to point out that cancer thrives on sugar. Sugary drinks also block vitamin C and deplete vitamin B1 and vitamin D.


Soft drinks are associated with over 180,000 deaths worldwide. But combining soda with a fast food meal is an even deadlier situation.


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https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/0...

https://usrtk.org/sweeteners/beverage...

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsp...

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritio...

https://usrtk.org/food-related-diseas...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Not that you would ever in a million years do this, but let's say you drank some liquid candy, I'm sorry,

0:05.3

soda for two weeks. What are the effects? Did you realize that the average American consumes

0:12.2

45 gallons? That's 170 liters of soda every single year.

0:19.6

And they only drink 58 gallons of water. You know in the 50s and the 60s the quantity with

0:26.6

soft drinks was a lot less. I think on average it was like six and a half

0:30.6

ounces right that's less than eight ounces now it's like 20 ounces a

0:35.4

leader the big gulp we're drinking way too much of this I mean even in like a 10

0:41.6

ounce soda you're talking up to 10 teaspoons of sugar and a lot of times

0:48.3

I don't even use cane sugar like they did way back when I was growing up. I remember growing up we would go to these different

0:54.4

stores and buy cases of soda. Boy, we would just down all the soda. I didn't think twice.

0:59.7

And I drank a lot of soda growing up, but I pretty much destroyed every single tooth in my

1:05.0

skull. Like I had cavities in every tooth. A lot of issues that caught up with me as I got

1:11.8

into my early 20s. But nowadays we use what's called high

1:15.4

fructose corn syrup and the percentage of fructose in that corn syrup is higher

1:21.7

than cane sugar.

1:23.6

And if we just look at the difference

1:24.9

between hyphertos corn syrup and cane sugar,

1:27.9

it's not the same, even though,

1:30.0

if you do your own research on this,

1:31.3

you'll find the first several pages of Google

1:33.7

say, oh, there's no difference, it's the same.

1:36.0

Just realize that's all recycled information.

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