are soft drinks harmful tothe liver?
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no, not at all.  but with all tastey things, keep the consumption low, no more than two per day (16oz), because drinking soft drinks in excessive amounts has been shown to decrease the absorption of calcium into bones, which could eventually lead to osteoporosis.  also, an excessive intake of sugar is never good for anyone.  i stick to the one soda a day rule, but its ok to cheat and have two.
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A good healthy eating life style, foods rich in Vitamin B,and milk thisle. There are good liver tonics especially if you drink alcohol. If you are worried about your liver, you can have an ultra sound done to make sure it's healthy.\nLots of water, as the liver removes toxins.
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Yeah, I think it's the Yellow 5 dye that they put in the soda that causes problems... But you have to drink a LOT for it to be a problem!  Then again, I know some guys who drink 6 a day :p
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The sugar might turn into fat when it gets into your system, but not until then.\nKeep in mind, diet softdrinks aren't any better for you than the sugar loaded ones- the artificial sweeteners are suspected of causing mental problems and more.  the carbonation is bad for you too.  If anyone has the willpower to drink only water, milk, and maybe a little fruit juice (no sugar added)- will find themselves feeling and looking better in a few weeks.
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stimulates liver and gallbladder, which are both cleansing organs and can become sluggish.\n\nTips: always bring coffee to body temp before using.. do not use hot coffee.  And always implant positive bacteria back into the intestinal tract (Probiotics)
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Yes, it has got some bad press over liver damage. Here is some info - \n\nComfrey (Symphytum officinale L.) is a perennial herb of the family Boraginaceae with a black, turnip-like root and large, hairy broad leaves that bears small bell-shaped white, cream, purple or pink flowers. It is native to Europe, growing in damp, grassy places, and is widespread throughout the British Isles on river banks and ditches. Comfrey has long been recognised by both organic gardeners and herbalists for its great usefulness and versatility; of particular interest is the "Bocking 14" cultivar of Russian Comfrey (Symphytum x uplandicum). This strain was developed during the 1950s by Lawrence D Hills, the founder of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (the organic gardening organisation itself named after the Quaker pioneer who first introduced Russian Comfrey into Britain in the 1910s) following trials at Bocking, near Braintree, the original home of the organisation.\n\nConcluding Remarks\n\nComfrey has properties that suggest it may be a unique healing agent deserving further research. Studies to determine effective dose and therapeutic action are warranted. However, constituents in comfrey represent a health risk as well. In order to minimize the risk of liver damage in people using comfrey, more research is needed to obtain an accurate assessment of toxicity. Research to support the safe use of comfrey such as how to minimize plant production of PAs and determinations of metabolism pathways in humans would be invaluable. \n\nAlthough not without merit, the comfrey research presented in the scientific literature has limited value in determining safety in humans for the following reasons:\n\nIsolated constituents do not reflect the actions of the whole plant.\nIn many instances, isolated comfrey PAs were used instead of the whole plant. Research suggests, that other components in comfrey (protein, anti-oxidants) may protect against toxicity. \nNon-representative animal models used.\nThe predominant animal model used to test comfrey toxicity was rats. In general, rats display a different reaction to PA poisoning than humans. Further, animal species display a wide range of susceptibility to PAs and respond differently to different PAs. Given such species diversity the only way to determine human susceptibility is to test humans. \nDosing too high.\nStudies with animals used amounts of comfrey higher than the amounts typically ingested by humans. \nRoute of administration wrong.\nSome studies with animals injected the PAs into the animal. This route of administration would result in increased toxicity of the PAs. \nConfounding factors in poisoning reports.\nIndividual susceptibility to PAs can be expected, but all case reports have confounding factors (concurrent illness, use of other medications, or protein deficiency) that would increase susceptibility further. \nExtrapolation from other PA poisoning in humans not possible.\nResearch or case reports involving PAs other than those in comfrey can not be used since the extent of PA toxicity depends on the specific PA.\n\nAlthough a safe level of comfrey consumption is probable, the use of comfrey without apparent detrimental effects doesn't mean that liver damage is not occurring. Occult damage or undesirable subclinical effects is a characteristic of many medications including the over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen (liver damage) and ibuprofen (gastrointestinal damage). However, in the case of these legal drugs, an assessment has been made and it was decided that possible benefit outweighed possible risk. Difficulties in using comfrey safely include:\n\nPA levels in comfrey vary widely from plant to plant.\nGeneral guidelines for PA levels in plant parts and by growth type are available, but not a lot is known about what leads to plant production of PAs. With the evidence that one ounce of comfrey leaf can contain between 0.13 to 60 mg of PAs, use of untested pl
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Better to avoid either.  High doses of refined sugar can lead to obesity and diabetes.  Artifical sweeteners lead to liver, kidney, stomach, circulatory system and mucous membrane problems. Pick your disease!\n\nI suggest you drink low doses of real sugar pop because won't harm your body as much.  Remember that coke has phosphoric acid, a powerful inorganic acid that if consumed in quantities can give you the ulcer of a lifetime, believe me, been there.
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I wouldn't say it destroys nutrients. But it does kind of make them run through your system instead of getting properly absorbed for use.\n\nNow, Pepsi is fine as an occasional thing. It doesn't really become a problem unless it's a regular drink instead of something else. In fact, I've used Coke Classic a number of times to settle an uneasy stomach.\n\nMake it a treat like you do other sweets, and you should be fine.
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well,not all soft drink are safe.\nover sugarated.
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Horrible, fat is the worse of all of above, the liver has to work ten times as much and yet reject it, then it will deposit lipids around the walls of the arteries creating a dangerous build up, starch creates minor problems and protein is a not to worry about, just stay away from those hamburgers..☺
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They put stress on your liver and kidneys.  They cause constipation.  They can lead to heart problems.
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Yep, too much alcohol consumption will pickle your liver, cause cirrhosis and in turn cause jaundice. You do have to be a very heavy drinker for a fairly long period of time for this to happen, unless your liver is already compromised and unhealthy.
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Anythings excessive cause toxic in our system.you need. plenty of water to flush them out.Too much oil cause us to become fat and put a heavy load on the liver,.too much protein put a heavy load on the kidney,too much sugar will lead to diabetes,\ntoo much acidic food is bad for the digestive system,too much meat is bad for the intestine so you need to balance with vegetable and so forth.
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YES IT CAN DAMAGE YOUR LIVER AND KIDNEYS ALSO CAUSE YOU TO HAVE A IRREGULAR HEART RATE
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no...any soda or anything containing \naspartame will cause \nepilepsy\nbirthdefect\nbrain tumors\nand diabetes..\nand actually, if youre a kid, then diet is worse.
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We could reduce or livers by half and still live a full long life,they do not regenerate, but also if abuse stopped ie: Drinking,Smoking then I'm certain it will not deteriorate further of course Diet plays a major part so one has to watch and reduce fatty foods etc...\nEvery thing in moderation is the key,it's amazing how many ppl say *Oh I only drink a wee bit** Yeah pull the other one it has bells..If your having Liver problems truth is you have given the booze a good nudge over a few years,,,Good Luck
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Corn Syrup and other corn yes check the site out below I'm glad you brought this question up actually I have liver problems and I never had a clue that corn was bad for you\n\nFor many years, Dr. Meira Fields and her coworkers at the US Department of Agriculture investigated the harmful effects of dietary sugar on rats. They discovered that when male rats are fed a diet deficient in copper, with sucrose as the carbohydrate, they develop severe pathologies of vital organs. Liver, heart and testes exhibit extreme swelling, while the pancreas atrophies, invariably leading to death of the rats before maturity.\n\nSucrose is a disaccharide composed of 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose. Dr. Fields repeated her experiments to determine whether it was the glucose or fructose moiety that caused the harmful effects. Starch breaks down into glucose when digested. On a copper-deficient diet, the male rats showed some signs of copper deficiency, but not the gross abnormalities of vital organs that occur in rats on the sucrose diet. When the rats were fed fructose, the fatal organ abnormalities occured. \n\nLysl oxidase is a copper-dependent enzyme that participates in the formation of collagen and elastin. Fructose seems to interfere with copper metabolism to such an extent that collagen and elastin cannot form in growing animals—hence the hypertrophy of the heart and liver in young males. The females did not develop these abnormalities, but they resorbed their litters.1\n\nThese experiements should give us pause when we consider the great increase in the use of high fructose corn syrup during the past 30 years, particularly in soft drinks, fruit juices and other beverages aimed at growing children, children increasingly likely to be copper deficient as modern parents no longer serve liver to their families. (Liver is by far the best source of copper in human diets.) \n\n“The bodies of the children I see today are mush,” observed a concerned chiropractor recently. The culprit is the modern diet, high in fructose and low in copper-containing foods, resulting in inadequate formation of elastin and collagen—the sinews that hold the body together.