Today, too many people include in their meals sweet drinks.

The highest consumption of sweet drinks was registered among children.

These represent a combination of chemicals. Imagine that in a glass of water you add 8-12 sugar tablespoons, the result is a sweet drink without flavors.

Too much sugar found in these drink may lead to:

A nutritional imbalance

Generally, this drink contains 120-180 calories, all are coming from sugar, without any nutrients.

For example a person who should eat 1200-1600 calories daily in order to maintain its ideal weight and health if would have drunk 2-3 sweet drinks in  a day, its food ration would decrease considerably; also the nutrients;

Weight gain

If calories from sweet drinks are added to calories from foods, excess calories will be deposited as fat;

calories from sugar enter quickly in the blood due to the lack of food fibers, increasing also the blood sugar levels and causing a temporary increase of energy.

When blood sugar increases, the pancreas releases insulin to bring blood sugar levels to normal, so it will produce an energy decrease.

This is due to soft drinks and sweet snacks eaten at frequent intervals.

When a sweet reaches in a stomach already busy with the processing of foods, digestion is slow.

Don't worry! A sweet drink served on special occasions causes no particular problem from this point of view.

But sweet drinks served several times a day causes to the  stomach, leading to a slow digestion.

Most sweet drinks, especially fizzy drinks increase stomach acid secretion. This increase is producing usually after drink left the stomach.