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Cola
Cola is a soft drink that contains sugar, caffeine, and caramel colors, such as Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola, and Sea-Cola, thanks to the invention of cola to John Pembert, who used the kola nut extract that is widely cultivated in Central and West Africa, and then spread Later to all parts of the world, and nowadays cola has become a symbol of American culture, and kola nuts have also been dispensed with in their manufacture, as cola is now prepared from sugar, citric acid, cinnamon, vanilla, and many other flavors, and each type of cola has a brand. It consists of a distinctive mixture that differs from the rest of its competing products.
Harms of cola
Many studies conducted on people who drink cola have proven that it affects the health of the body negatively because it contains a high percentage of sugar and caffeine, such as weight gain and increased heart rate, but the extent of the danger of cola as a drink is still in the discussion of many Experts and specialists who are still running many tests on cola, and it may affect people with some diseases, and in the following lines we will mention some of its damages, namely:
The effect on diabetic patients
Cola causes a significant and noticeable rise in blood sugar, which results in a negative effect which is the inability to control diabetes, as one can of cola contains thirty-three grams of sucrose, which the blood absorbs very quickly.
Reducing calcium absorption
Soft drinks negatively affect the health of the body, because they contain citric acid and phosphoric acid, which combine with the calcium in the food that a person eats, which results in intestinal absorption of a small amount of calcium that reaches the blood, followed by the bones.
Reducing iron absorption
Cola drink contains caffeine, which negatively affects the amount of iron absorbed by the blood, resulting in anemia, which is one of the most common problems among children and adolescents, and thus the occurrence of weakness in the body, and a feeling of fatigue and exhaustion, and loss of appetite for food.
Kidney failure
Women who drink more than two soda cans during the day are exposed to an increase in the level of albuminuria, which is represented by the presence of a large amount of protein called albumin in the urine, which can be considered an indicator of fatal kidney disease. Loyola Medical said that healthy kidneys can purify and filter a large amount of particles such as albumin, but if there is a large amount of it, this indicates a person's exposure to kidney failure.
Impact on testicles
Men are advised to avoid drinking soft drinks, especially dark drinks that contain a large percentage of cola until it reaches more than a quarter of a gallon per day, and thus the sperm is exposed to destruction and damage.
