8 Ways Soda Fizzles Your Health
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I confess to being a diet soda addict. Even though I know it’s full of chemicals, I still thirst for Diet Coke from a fountain, on ice, with a squeeze of lemon.
The Water for Life blog has a list of scary facts about soda that should help convince me to quit. Here’s are some interesting ones:
- The pH of soda equals the pH of vinegar (2.5), making it the most acidic beverage you can buy.
- Soda contains high levels of phosphorous, which “leaches” calcium from bones
- Adolescents who consume soft drinks display a risk of bone fractures three to four-fold higher than those who do not.
- Diet soda isn’t any better: one liter of an aspartame-sweetened beverage can produce about fifty-six milligrams of methanol. And when it comes to saccharin, more than a dozen animal tests over the last thirty years have demonstrated its carcinogenic effects in the bladder and other sites, particularly female reproductive organs, and in some instances at doses as low as the equivalent of one to two bottles of diet pop daily.
- Sodium benzoate is used as a preservative (microbial control) in foods, including soft drinks, fruit juices, margarine, confections, pickles, and jams. Sodium preservatives add sodium to the diet and reduce the availability of potassium.
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