Posted on 11/02/2009 11:02:02 AM PST by goodwithagun
Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on the sale of soft drinks continues, you should know how they affect your body so that you can make an informed choice on your own. Soft drinks are hard on your health Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and often food additives such as artificial coloring, flavoring, and preservatives. A lot of research has found that consumption of soft drinks in high quantity, especially by children, is responsible for many health problems that include tooth decay, nutritional depletion, obesity, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease.
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The tolerance for benzene in the water supply is 5 ppb (only because modern filtration systems can't remove it any lower than that). Benzene was found in a number of sodas and fruit drinks years ago at more than this tolerance due to a reaction between sodium benzoate and vitamin C. Even so, these amounts were minute and well below levels that have been known to impact occupational workers. Even if you drank 120 liters of these sodas/fruit drinks per day you'd still be consuming less than the amount of benzene that has shown to have no effect on occupational workers. People living in most major cities in the US will get more benzene from the air they breathe than they will from the soda you cite from the FDA report that has you so alarmed.
The Invisible Killer
Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain. contributes to the "greenhouse effect." may cause severe burns. contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape. accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals. may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes. has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
Contamination Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant. in nuclear power plants. in the production of styrofoam. as a fire retardant. in many forms of cruel animal research. in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical. as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products. Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.
You can have my Coke Zero when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.
Dr. Strangelove?
This is why I’m grateful to my parents for never serving soda in the house when my brothers and I were kids. By the time I encountered the stuff outside the home, I was old enough to think the concept was disgusting. Sugar water with brown food coloring? Ewww!
At the same time, what’s with the nanny journalism? I’ll drink as many parts juice-to-water as I please, thanks.
One day, I read the ingredients list on a can of Coke. 45g of sugar, it said. So, breaking out my trusty diet scale, I measured 45 grams of sugar, then poured it into a glass that was about the same diameter of the can of Coke.
The sugar filled up about an inch of the bottom of the glass. After that, I never drank another can of any soft drink. In contrast, I use 1 teaspoon of sugar in my cup of coffee.
How many grams of sugar are in your Hanson's all-natural soda?
Exactly. Some quack with "Dr." in front of his/her name can spout off a bunch of BS and the sheeple will eat it right up without questioning it.
Garbage like this is much worse for people than a can of a soda.
Forgot to add that to this day I’m one of the only people I know who doesn’t just lay off the cola for health reasons - I actually can’t stand the stuff. I was recently in China for business, and more than one person (intending to be hospitable) assumed that because I was American, I must want a Coke. I had to very politely indicate that I’d rather have water, juice... basically anything but the brown sugar water.
>>researchers fed lab rats nothing but Saccharin 24/7 and then wondered at the fact that they develop cancer. Stuffing lab rats with amounts that have no relationship to real world usage is the height of junk science
Hey, the 1992 WHO study did the same to mice in a box and then poured in tabak smoke 24/7. Voila!
There’s a chocolate Dr. Pepper? I’ll have to try one.
When I think about all the daily beer and years of various poisons that I have introduced in my body, somehow I am not too worried about a coke.
I drink MtDew by the truckload during the day.
Beer in the evening.
Pepsi Throwback has been in the stores here for a month or two. I prefer Coke but tried one anyway. Pepsi just doesn’t have the bite a Coke does, but it was nice to not drink corn syrup for a change.
I'm 45 years old and have been an avid reader my whole life. I'm trying to remember if I've ever read a assertion with as little evidence offered so emphatically...Nope, I don't think so. The fact of the matter is you don't have the slightest idea if, or to what degree, soda consumption effects any of these symptoms.
Fortunately, the human body has simple nutritional needs and is very resilient. It can thrive under a huge variety of conditions and nutritional inputs. People claiming some potion or nutrient is the key to health are fraudsters or misguided. People claiming any normal food or drink (including soda) is a path to poor health are just as far off. Casual observations of people that live long healthy lives seems to indicate that obsession with nutrition or possible harmful side effects of food and drink isn't what gets you to your 90s. Enjoying every bite and sip may well be, however.
Which probably makes it nutritionally identical to a small baked potato. A carb is a carb is a carb. They don't bite and you need them to live.
Not all carbs are create equal. One doesn't 'need' sugar to live.
We splurge occasionally at a restaurant and get sodas, but mostly it’s water for us. I very rarely bring it into the house because of the fact that it has no nutrition in it and it doesn’t quench your thirst. If I do bring something into the house, it’s usually a premium root beer.
Actually, they are. There's some debate about how fast they are absorbed and the short term effects on blood sugar. But after the stomach gets a hold of sugars and starches, it is all the same. Fear of white sugar is a silly superstition. Large helpings of carbs are not good for weight control. But other than maybe the effect on teeth, the finest organic pasta is no different than a spoonfuls of beet sugar.
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