Soda - More Harm than Good
Every morning thousands of people go to their local gas station and fill a giant cup with soda to start their day. They think that drinking more than a cupful of caffeine will help get them through the day and give them some extra energy. If you’re in the habit of drinking soda every day, know that soda can actually cause you to feel more tired!
The caffeine and sugar in sodas makes you feel a little more alert and awake with the first few drinks. What happens then, though, is the insulin in your body decreases and when the sugar from the soda wears off you actually feel worse than before. Drinking a soda without any food to go with it just gives your body a big sugar rush but you don’t absorb the sugar.
Eating some food with the soda helps this a little bit. When you do accompany drinking soda with eating other foods, your body becomes slow in absorbing the sugar. The insulin your pancreas produces can’t keep up with all the sugar coming in so much of the sugar remain in your blood stream, which explains why you will feel a little energized. This is short lived, though, and sooner you’ll soon feel tired because the sugar rush is over.
Some people think that drinking diet soda is better since it doesn’t have real sugar. However, diet sodas have a sugar substitute that acts like sugar in our body and can make you want to eat and drink more sugary things.
Avoiding diet sodas and regular sodas will decrease your sugar intake, which will make you feel better naturally. You’ll have more energy to work out and it will be easier to lose weight.
One side effect of drinking soda may be increased stress hormones in your body. What happens is the caffeine reacts with your hormones, especially your stress hormones. The more soda you drink, the more stress you will be putting on your body. Skipping that soda will decrease the level of stress hormones in your body and you will feel better and have more energy.
Another side effect of soda can be sleep problems. Caffeine is a stimulant so it can interact with your brain and keep you awake at night. You may have trouble falling asleep and also not get as good quality of sleep as you should. You will not wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day. Skip that soda and you’ll be sleeping like a baby and waking up with enough true energy than you can possible handle.
It may be hard to believe that soda actually decreases your energy levels but it’s true. The first few weeks after you stop drinking soda might be tough and you might have less energy and feel tired all the time. That is just your body’s way of weaning itself off the caffeine and sugar. Once your body gets used to functioning with that extra sugar and caffeine, you’ll feel better, sleep better and have more energy.
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