Soda Wreaks Havoc On Your Heart.

If you are a soda drinker and want to improve your heart health, you need to eliminate the soda from your diet immediately. Soda is incredibly high in sugar, which damages every single aspect of your health, including your heart health. According to WebMD, one can of soda has more sugar than you should consume in an entire day! Moreover, because that sugar is all in liquid calories, you will not feel full at all no matter how much you drink. Not only can doctors link soda to higher rates of obesity and type-two diabetes, but they connect it to heart disease and stroke. Soda is bad news all around. 

Juice is better than soda, but not much. Juice is still very high in sugar, and the process of juicing eliminates the fiber that is in the whole fruit. A much better option is vegetable juice that may have some fruit added for flavor because vegetable juice has far less sugar and is much richer in nutrients (as long as it has not been overly processed; cold-pressed is best). If you are craving fizziness, add some carbonated water to juice. You could also try drinking kombucha, which has the fizziness of a soda but also has many health benefits that soda could never even dream of providing. Another great option is smoothies, but be careful not to order smoothies from restaurants, which tend to be loaded with sugar and lack fresh fruit. Make your own smoothies at home, and do not add any sugar.