The risk is the same whether the drinks are sweetened or are ‘diet’ versions, when artificial sweeteners are used. Just drinking two or more cans or bottles a day can more than double the risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, or LADA, which has similar symptoms to type 2 diabetes but can develop into type 1, and is sometimes called type 1.5 diabetes.
Drinking two 200ml drinks of sugary or diet cola increases the risk of LADA 2.4 times, say researchers from Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who examined the diets of 357 people diagnosed with LADA and compared them to 1,136 people with type 2 diabetes and 1,371 healthy adults.
The sugary colas could be causing insulin resistance, the hallmark of diabetes, and the diet drinks may be interfering with bacteria in the gut, causing glucose intolerance, the researchers say.
(Source: European Journal of Endocrinology, 2016; 175: 605-14)
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