{"id":487265,"date":"2026-06-07T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487265\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:09:12","slug":"heart-surgeon-brands-popular-drink-liquid-death-and-warns-you-should-never-consume-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487265\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart surgeon brands popular drink ‘liquid death’ and warns you should never consume them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heart surgeon Dr Jeremy London has issued a stark warning about soft drinks, branding them ‘liquid death’ and insisting people should never drink them<\/p>\n

Heart surgeon Dr Jeremy London has labelled a certain drink as ‘liquid death’ and says people should avoid it entirely, along with smoking, alcohol, and refined carbs<\/p>\n

A heart surgeon has labelled one of the world’s most widely consumed drinks as “liquid death”, insisting that people simply should not drink it “period”.<\/p>\n

Dr Jeremy London holds board certification in general surgery, vascular surgery and thoracic surgery, and regularly shares guidance through social media and interviews. He is far from the only medical expert voicing concerns about the harmful impact soft drinks can have on a person’s health.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post, Dr London outlined “four things I absolutely avoid as a heart surgeon”.<\/p>\n

These comprised smoking, alcohol, breads and pastas, and soft drinks. He said: “Number one, smoking: no question the single worst thing you can do for your entire body. Destroys your lungs, causes lung cancer, high cardiovascular risks, heart attacks and strokes, don’t smoke.”<\/p>\n

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Dr London (right) listed four things he would “absolutely avoid as a heart surgeon”(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Alcohol came in at second place on his list, according to reports.<\/p>\n

He said: “Hate to break it to you [but it’s] toxic. Toxic to every cell in your body. Your body, your rules, you decide for yourself. For me personally removing alcohol from my life has probably been one of the most transformative decisions I’ve made as an adult.”<\/p>\n

Soft drinks ranked third on his lis, reports the Mirror<\/a>. He remarked: “Liquid death. Just don’t drink them. Period. Done.” Wrapping up his advice, Dr London said: “Avoid breads and pastas. Avoid the refined flours and wheats. Eighty per cent of weight control is diet, 20% is exercise. I guarantee you can out-eat any exercise that you do.”<\/p>\n

In a subsequent interview with Today, Dr London stood by his views on soft drinks (also commonly known as fizzy drinks), although he admitted that calling them “liquid death” was designed to grab attention: “I think that soft drinks are just a scourge in our society, and so I was really trying to get some attention. Obviously, high-calorie soft drinks and ingesting a lot of calories that people don’t realise they’re getting with the sugar-based soft drinks is a big no-no.”<\/p>\n

That said, he is far from the only leading medical expert who considers fizzy drinks to pose a greater health threat than most people appreciate.<\/p>\n

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There’s one particular drink shoppers should avoid buying as it can damage our bodies over time(Image: Luis Alvarez via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Dr William Li recently told the Zoe podcast: “Soda is everyone’s favourite whipping boy. Rightfully so. The preponderance of clinical evidence, public health evidence, shows that high consumption of soda is associated with everything from metabolic disease to cardiovascular disease to cancer risk.<\/p>\n

“But is it the sugar? Is glucose that demonic element that we need to crucify? Answer’s no. Soda is not just water, otherwise that’d be just carbonated water. But soda itself has all these additives, colours, flavourings, preservatives, stabilisers… that is accumulated exposure to toxins. It’s not one exposure, it’s the chronic exposure over time.”<\/p>\n

The NHS advises that children should steer clear of sugary fizzy drinks, squash and juice drinks entirely, as they can cause damage to their teeth. Furthermore, youngsters who consume large amounts of sugary beverages face a greater risk of becoming overweight.<\/p>\n

As an alternative, health officials suggest switching to diet, sugar-free or no-added-sugar options. Better still, simply stick to water to maintain proper hydration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heart surgeon Dr Jeremy London has issued a stark warning about soft drinks, branding them ‘liquid death’ and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,3274,61,60],"class_list":["post-487265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-heart-disease","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}