Soda linked to heart failure

Merry Christmas!

I will be filling up on sugary sweets today in direct contrast to this post...

And further discussion about why we should cut out all sodas from our diet. This blurb is also taken from the November 20th edition of the Week Magazine. (Once I post this, you see, I can recycle the magazine; I have been holding on to it for weeks so that I might share with you.)

The Week discussed this with it's readers previously and we blogged about it here.

I took this photo from here. Don't ask me why from this page, the image just appealed to me

Soft drinks and other sugary beverages have been shown to increase the odds of suffering high blood pressure, liver disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity. Now a long-term Swedish study reveals that people with a daily soda habit may also be at higher risk for heart failure. The researchers followed roughly 42,000 men over 45 for 12 years, monitoring their diets and allowing for other risk factors. They found that the subjects who drank more than two sweetened drinks every day had a 23 percent greater risk of developing heart failure, which occurs when the heart becomes too weak to pump blood as well as it should. The study doesn’t prove that sugary drinks directly cause the condition, but the association suggests it’s wise to avoid those empty calories. Swedish men tend to be trimmer and fitter than their American counterparts, Duke University cardiologist Christopher O’Connor tells CBSNews​.com, which means the potential effects of sugary drinks “would be larger and faster here.”