Reports continue to show the detriments of soda on the body. Not only is it nutritionally void, it causes obesity, diabetes, and cancer.
According
to researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, liquid sugar is
permanently changing little girls’ hormones. The findings were published
in the journal Human Reproduction.
“Our
study adds to increasing concern about the wide-spread consumption of
sugar-sweetened drinks among children and adolescents in the USA and
elsewhere,” the study’s lead researcher, Harvard Medical School
professor Karin Michels, explained in a press release.
“The main concern
is about childhood obesity, but our study suggests that age of first
menstruation (menarche) occurred earlier, independently of body mass
index, among girls with the highest consumption of drinks sweetened with
added sugar.
These findings are important in the context of earlier
puberty onset among girls, which has been observed in developed
countries and for which the reason is largely unknown.”
Researchers
analyzed how soda might be related to girls getting their periods
earlier and earlier by following 5,583 girls between the ages of 9 to 14
throughout 1996 and 2001, discovering a direct link between those who
drank more sugary drinks and earlier menstruation.
They concluded that
consuming more than one-and-a-half sugary drinks a day in the five-year
time frame resulted in girls having their first periods 2.7 months
earlier than those who consumed two or less of the same drinks a week.
Typically,
people who drink a lot of soda have an unhealthy diet, but the
researchers’ findings took into account other factors that may affect a
girl’s age of first menstruation, including the girls’ BMI, height,
daily calories, exercise, and other lifestyle factors, and found soda
and other sugary drinks were still to blame.
It
is imperative for consumers to be aware of these dangers. Parents
should abstain from both giving their children soda and consuming it
themselves, as their reproductive health for future children might be
compromised.
“Our findings provide further support for public health efforts to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks,” Michels explained.
While
earlier periods have become more apparent over the last 50 years, it’s
been of excessive concern as periods in girls have been rapidly falling
for over a decade now. Experts believe that early puberty is the result
of chemical cocktails like soda.
The
researchers also took into consideration that girls who have started to
mature early tend to drink more sugary drinks as a result of new tastes
they’ve developed from puberty. It also remains to be seen if a
three-month difference in when a girl gets her first period has a
meaningful impact on her health.
According to Dr. Joshua Yang, a
pediatric endocrinologist at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in
Orlando, Florida, “three months really isn’t that big a deal.”
Nonetheless, the findings further support the necessity to kick the soda habit for good.
Sugary
drinks like soda are serious contributors to the obesity epidemic, for
instance, and consumption of these beverages continues to spike,
with half of the people in America consuming a sugary drink at least
once a day.
Source(s):
collective-evolution.com
medicaldaily.com
downtrend.com
cwhn.caeurekalert.org
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