Sugary Drinks Can Wreck Your Body ! By Evan Cook
Karlee Leach
“One 12-ounce soda a day can increase your risk of heart attack by 30%” (Sugary Drinks Can Wreck Your Body! By Evan Cook). Is this really what people want? People dying from heart attacks is a real concern in the U.S., and one way to have a heart attack, is having too much sugar. One cause of consuming a lot of sugar is by drinking it, whether it be Gatorade, Rockstar, or even a vitamin water. Sugary drinks, amongst other things, contribute a large part to obesity and heart attack in America. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say “some 17 percent of kids and a third of adults are obese.” Obesity and heart disease are very much out of control in the United States, and one way to help lower the risk is to put warning labels on sugary drinks to warn customers about what they are putting in …show more content…
Author Evan Cook writes in “Sugary Drinks Can Wreck Your Body!,” “It [sugar] can rot your teeth and turn your liver into a grotesque lump of scar tissue… Eating too much of it can lead to obesity and put you at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and so many other health problems.” Cook addresses this as a way of showing too much, or even a little sugar in your drinks, affects your health in intense ways. No one wants to feel the threat of heart disease looming over them, so the best choice is to not consume sugary drinks. Another effect is sugar can cause people’s livers harm, as Cook says. “When you chug down a bottle of soda, you send a truckload of fructose straight to your liver… Some of that fructose turns into fat,which can build up in your liver. The same things happens to alcoholics after years of drinking.” Most people would use this information and think about how sugary drinks affect their health, but how could they? There is no warning labels on the drinks, so they do not know exactly what they consume is doing to their
“One 12-ounce soda a day can increase your risk of heart attack by 30%” (Sugary Drinks Can Wreck Your Body! By Evan Cook). Is this really what people want? People dying from heart attacks is a real concern in the U.S., and one way to have a heart attack, is having too much sugar. One cause of consuming a lot of sugar is by drinking it, whether it be Gatorade, Rockstar, or even a vitamin water. Sugary drinks, amongst other things, contribute a large part to obesity and heart attack in America. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say “some 17 percent of kids and a third of adults are obese.” Obesity and heart disease are very much out of control in the United States, and one way to help lower the risk is to put warning labels on sugary drinks to warn customers about what they are putting in …show more content…
Author Evan Cook writes in “Sugary Drinks Can Wreck Your Body!,” “It [sugar] can rot your teeth and turn your liver into a grotesque lump of scar tissue… Eating too much of it can lead to obesity and put you at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and so many other health problems.” Cook addresses this as a way of showing too much, or even a little sugar in your drinks, affects your health in intense ways. No one wants to feel the threat of heart disease looming over them, so the best choice is to not consume sugary drinks. Another effect is sugar can cause people’s livers harm, as Cook says. “When you chug down a bottle of soda, you send a truckload of fructose straight to your liver… Some of that fructose turns into fat,which can build up in your liver. The same things happens to alcoholics after years of drinking.” Most people would use this information and think about how sugary drinks affect their health, but how could they? There is no warning labels on the drinks, so they do not know exactly what they consume is doing to their