Weekend Health Clinic: Soft Drinks – Hardcore Toxicity
on March 6th, 2005 at 4:17 amSoft Drinks: We Drink this Stuff and Give it to our Children
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For your info: The Average pH of soft drinks, e.g. Coke, Pepsi is pH 3.4.
This acid is strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones!
Our human body stops building bones at round the age of 30. After that it’ll be dissolving about 8-18% of our bones each year through the urine depending on the acidity of the food intake (acidity does not depend on the taste of the food, but on the ratio of potassium/calcium /magnesium, etc. to phosphorus). All the dissolved calcium compounds accumulate in the arteries, veins, skin tissue, and organs. This affects the function of the kidney (kidney stones). Soft drinks do not have any nutritional value (in terms of vitamins and minerals). They have higher sugar content, higher acidity, and more additives such as preservatives and colorings.
Some people like to take cold soft drinks after each meal. Guess what’s the impact? Our body has an optimum temperature of 98.6 degrees F for the functioning of digestive enzymes. The temperature of cold soft drinks is much less than optimum, sometimes quite close to freezing. This will lower the effectiveness of the enzymes and put stress on the digestive system, digesting less food. In fact, the food gets fermented. The fermented food produces bad smelling gases, decays and forms toxins that are absorbed in the intestines, gets circulated in the blood and is delivered to the whole body. This spread of toxins can lead to the development of various diseases.
Think before you drink Coke or Pepsi or other soft drinks. Have you ever though what you drink when you drink an aerated drink? You gulp down carbon dioxide, something that nobody in the world would advise you to do.
Recently, there was a competition in Delhi University “Who can drink the most coke?”. The winner drank 8 bottles and died on the spot because too much carbon dioxide in the blood and not enough oxygen. From then on, the dean banned all soft drinks from the university canteen.
Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it dissolved! Teeth and bones are the only human structures that stay intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to your soft intestines and stomach lining! Try putting a common metal nail in a container of Coke and see how long it takes to dissolve.
People in the US consume more soft drinks than water!
