Are Symptoms of Gestational Diabetes Linked to Soda?
Wondering about super sweet soda? Some recent studies have found that sugar-sweetened drinks are related to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance in middle or older aged populations, but there hasn’t been any work on these drinks and symptoms of gestational diabetes in pregnancy. Women who drink 5 (or more) servings of sugar sweetened cola a week before conceiving a child were found to have an increased chance of developing diabetes during pregnancy according to some new research appearing in the December 2009 issue of Diabetes Care. Known to the medical community as gestational diabetes, glucose intolerance during pregnancy increases the chance of lifelong diabetes in the mother, and can also have permanent effects on the babies’ major organs like brain and heart. Almost 7% of all pregnant women in the U.S. are diagnosed with this condition during pregnancy, often during their third trimester. “Previous studies have shown an association with other chronic metabolic p
