Will drinking carbonated drinks often cause gout?What is the truth?

Many people in life like to drink carbonated drinks

It is even often used instead of drinking water

So long -term drinking carbonated drinks

Will it cause gout?

Deat tooth damage

Is the culprit really carbonated?

Will you get gout to drink carbonated drinks every day?

Wang Qian, chief physician of the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology of Peking Union Hospital, reminded that long -term drinking of carbonated drinks can indeed cause gout. They have correlations, mainly because they are carbonated in the beverage, but the sugar, especially the fructose. After a large amount of fructose, purine will be synthesized in our bodies, which causes the elevation of uric acid after metabolism, thereby inducing gout. So the more sweet drinks drink, the higher the risk of gout.

Nowadays, new beverages in the market are emerging endlessly. Some are marked with zero sugar cards. Will drinking this drink cause gout? The doctor said that the sweetness of sugar -free beverages mainly comes from sweeteners, which is basically not absorbed by the human body. Generally speaking, it has little effect on gout.

Behind the scene of "hurting teeth" beverages

In addition to gout, carbonated beverages seem to have become synonymous with "hurting teeth" drinks.

According to the People's Daily report, research on the mechanism of tooth decay has confirmed that the prerequisites of dissolving the enamel under the action of acidity and resulting in the departure of calcium ions are that the pH value is lower than 4.5 to 5.5 (this range is called the critical pH value To.

The carbonic acid is only a weak acid in the acidic material family. Although the pH value of saturated carbonate can even be as low as 4 under low temperature and high pressure, its pH value is usually 5.6 in normal temperature and normal pressure environment. Although this value is close to the critical pH value, it is only hovering near it; and it is extremely unstable, it is easy to break down into carbon dioxide and water, which further increases the pH value. Therefore, it is really wrong to say that carbonate can corrode the teeth!

In fact, in the carbonic acid beverages, in addition to carbonate, there are two other types of acid -phosphoric acid and citric acid. Compared with carbonic acid, the acidity of phosphate and citric acid is more acidic and relatively stable. Carbonated drinks with phosphate and citric acid are added, and the pH value can even be as low as 2 to 3.

Therefore, although carbonated drinks are called "carbonated" beverages, the real powerful characters are not carbonate, but phosphate and citric acid.

(37 degrees 丨 Yangtze Health Financial Media Products part of the information Reference: CCTV Finance and People's Daily Science Cover: Ma Jingjing copywriting: Gaoyang)

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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