Small Study: Soft Drinks May Change Metabolism Permanently

Small Study: Soft Drinks May Change Metabolism Permanently

Dr. Hans-Peter Kubis, the director of the Health Exercise and Rehabilitation group at Bangor University in England, has shown that regularly drinking soda drinks can not only cause weight gain, but can actually change the metabolism in the human body, potentially triggering a whole host of other medical problems.

The findings published in the European Journal of Nutrition in June, 2012 looked at the effects of increased soda intake on a group of 11 men and women described as 'lightly active, healthy, lean subjects with sporadic soft drink consumption.

The study found that even in that short time, the extra soda led their bodies to process calories differently, switching to 'an inefficient metabolism.