Excess sugar can cause liver damage. There are many reasons to avoid sugar, including the fact that it inhibits your immune system. And the aspartame-sweetened drinks aren't much better side effect-wise.

Edit: Oh, and also, since it's usually fructose they put in the drinks, research has shown that insulin resistance is a problem. So happy days!

For every can of soda you drink should be another cup of water.
And 3 liters a day!
You need to stop that and go to only 1-2 cans a day. That can effect your organs because of the amount of sugar you are consuming.

Torn's advice is true. Excessive sugar could lead to diabetes and that's the last thing you need. Mine's inherited, but all the same..

Chris Hansen's advice on keeping to just 1-2 cans of Pepsi/Coke a day makes sense. Doing so will also help reduce your massive intake of caffeine. And caffeine will increase, apparently, your body's cholesterol levels, cause insomnia, headaches....

Whatever we eat and drink, our liver carries enzymes to help break down the nutrients. Excess of sugar could lead to liver damage just the same as excessive alcohol - and it is alcohol that is the chief concern for long term liver damage.

Here is an interesting article on adverse effects of drinking caffeine-based drinks with painkillers. Potential Liver Damage When Combining Caffeine and Painkillers | The Daily Headache

I think you just need to reduce your intake of Coke/Pepsi and be sensible about it.

That's a ridiculous amount!

You will also get fat, surely.

I have discovered just how much sugar is present in a can of Coke. It's frightening.

Coca-Cola contains high fructose corn syrup. A twelve ounce can contains 39 grams sugar. The same applies to other sweetened beverages, and alarmingly, even Diet Coke causes addiction because of its high caffeine content.

For pity's sake, all that sugar you are drinking daily, it could cause diabetes. And ffs you really, really don't want to suffer the way I have, and occasionally still do!

I know, one can of coke has 39% of your daily sugar intake! it's crazy. poster really needs to stop.

i don't drink it often, but i would prefer diet coke. that's not gonna harm you once in a while

My dad, when i was younger always used to drop a coin in a glass on coke and He would then say thats whats happening to your stomach. Watch what happens to the coin. He probably just said that to put me off drinking it or maybe it is like that i dunno.

Not to mention the RDI's for sugar and carb are retardedly large in the first place. I mean the guidelines tell you to have more sugar than fat or protein!

Hello Friends..........

Soda damages your liver. There is evidence that consumption of too many soft drinks puts you under increased risk for liver cirrhosis similar to what chronic alcoholics have.

Thanks

Under the same topic - I drink Pepsi MAX which is supposedly absent of sugar, in the same quantities. I can't stomach water on it's own, makes me sick :(. Could this have the same effects as Diet Coca-Cola?

Regards.

Yes, it can. Pepsi Max and Coke Light aren't much different.

If you can't stomach plain water, try carbonated water with a pH level above 6.

3 liters per day, soon you gonna die =/

Sodas will also ruin your bone density as well as your tooth enamel. Stick to water...