How Much Sugar in Coke Regular vs Coke Zero

Everyone knows that soft-drinks are bad for your health even if its Diet Coke or sugar-free. However, the video above shows an experiment that determines how much sugar in Coke Regular and Coke Zero. Both drinks are first tested in high heat using a nonstick pan. Boiling the soft-drinks will remove the water and the product will caramelize leaving the sugar.

The purpose of the video is to show how much sugar you are consuming when you drink regular soft-drinks. It hopes to lessen your soft-drinks intake and instead drink water or if you really can't avoid it choose diet soft-drinks instead. Type 2 diabetes is no joke, it's expensive and it's a nasty disorder that can lead to deadly complications.

Replacing 1 Sugary drink with water, tea or coffee a day decrease diabetes risk

If you want to decrease the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 25% swap one sugary drink with a glass of water, tea or coffee each day. That's according to a study done by Cambridge University. It is published last Thursday in European journal Diabetologia.

The research use a sample size of more than 25,000 men and women ages 40-79 from the United Kingdom. They recorded their food intake for 7 consecutive days, taking notes of the type, amount and frequency of portions, and whether sugar was added.  The study found that during 11 years of follow-up, 847 participants were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

By swapping 1 glass of soft drinks with water or unsweetened tea or coffee, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes was decreased by 14%, by replacing sweetened milk drink with water or unsweetened tea or coffee led to a further decrease in risk about 20-25%.