Soft Drink Diabetes Connection
I have metabolic syndrome x. This condition is actually composed of several concurrent maladies to include elevated blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess visceral fat and an abnormal lipid configuration to include high cholesterol and triglycerides. The morbidity is an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.This condition has been present since I stopped exercising and the consequences have been a gut and endless ridicule from those who were supposed to be "friends" of mine — one of which died of cancer a few years back.
Evidence for a distinct connection between consuming sweet soft drinks and diabetes has been raised yet again in the threads. The evidence is quite asymmetric with various soft drink habits spawning different levels of the disease ...
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Given the fact that these green sugar bombs which I consumed in mass quantities with gusto were accompanied by various cigarette brands like Marlboro when I bought them to whatever else I would bum from others periodically ...
I'd have to say that the bulk effect of giving both up concurrently must have helped at some point.
I only wish that serious treatment of these issues had started much earlier. There is a disconnect sometimes when a physician either doesn't recognize or correlate the lab work to the person and I feel this is what happened to me until things got way out of control.
So now my beverages are virtually sugar free and unsweetened as I don't like artificial sweeteners by and large.
I gave up the smoking years back. I have little body fat aside from the visceral stuff by and large. If I could only get some exercise I might have a chance.