Sodas linked to heart diseases

A recent study has relived that people who drink one or more soft drink per day have more than 50% higher risk in developing the heart disease precursor metabolic syndrome than people who drink less than one soda per day.

So whats metabolic syndrome ? It is a constellation of health problems like high waist circumference, high blood pressure, low levels of "good" cholesterol, and other health problems. All these factors have always been strongly linked to heart diseases.

The study, in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, looked at more than 6,000 healthy people, who showed no signs of metabolic syndrome, and then followed up. After four years, 53 percent of people who drank an average of one or more soft drinks per day developed metabolic syndrome. Those who drank one or more diet soft drinks a day were at a 44 percent higher risk.