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It’s no secret now that soft drinks are bad for health. We tell everyone how bad they are and yet, we’re still a soda-consuming people. Not unlike how we have warnings on cigarette packets telling us how we’re basically setting ourselves up for cancer.
Cutting to the chase, these are the reasons why soft drinks are not good for your health:
Caffeine, phosphoric acid, carbonated water and high fructose corn syrup.
Caffeine
Yes, it wakes you up when you’re ploughing through work. After that, it’s pretty much downhill. For one, it’s highly addictive. (Why did you think you have to have your coffee every morning?) You won’t be able to sleep properly and you enter into a vicious cycle of depending on caffeine daily. Caffeine is known to cause a rise in blood pressure as well, as if the stress at work isn’t enough to give you a headache, not to mention heart diseases.
Especially for ladies, caffeine can increase the risk of a miscarriage, and cause leach calcium from your bones. Those consuming at least one cup of a caffeine-containing beverage per day, such as coffee, tea or soft drinks, were more prone to PMS. And the more caffeine they consumed, the more severe their PMS symptoms.
Phosphoric acid
Why is it in your can of soft drink, because it creates the carbonation that makes your pop pop. It’s an acid, obviously, and we know what acids do. You know what happens when you get heartburn? That’s what acids do. Acids will oxidize anything it comes in contact with. The acid in your daily can of Coke will destroy your enamel.
Phosphoric acid also upsets your body’s phosphorus-calcium balance. To restore the balance, calcium is taken from none other than your bones and teeth. And if you follow this, it will eventually lead to osteoporosis. Adolescents who consume soft drinks display a risk of bone fractures three to four-fold higher than those who do not. Why? Pressure on bones due to weight.
Carbonated Water
Basically water injected with carbon dioxide. Without it, your drink will lose the fizz and taste flat. With it, the acid in our stomach is weakened, interfering with digestion. Carbonation also contributes to the dissolving of your teeth’s enamel, though its effects are not as severe as the sugar in soft drinks.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
The reason soft drinks are fattening. There are enough sugar in a can of soft drink to give you your daily supply for the day. Fructose is easily turned into fat and stored in your body, and it is found that each can of soft drink consumed increases the risk of obesity by 1.6 times.
Maybe you opt for diet soda and think it’s all right. Well, no, not at all. In fact, if anything, it might be worse. Diet drinks are sweetened artificially with aspartame, and can produce methanol. In effect, you’re dumping methanol into your bloodstream. Others make use of saccharin, another artificial sweetener. Tests have demonstrated the carcinogenic (cancer-causing) effects of saccharin in the bladder and other sites, particularly female reproductive organs. Basically, less sugar calories, more poison.
The benefits of soft drinks?
Sorry, we have found none.
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