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One of the worst things you can do for your health is regularly consume soft drinks. When you
understand what is in the average soft drink and what those ingredients can do, you may just want
to stay as far away from them as you can!

The average soda has no nutritional value. Most contain only sugar, carbonated water, caramel
coloring, flavoring, caffeine, and high fructose corn syrup. Dark colored soft drinks such as colas
also contain phosphoric acid. Clear soft drinks (lemon-lime flavored) have citric acid.

Now, let's look at some of those ingredients individually. The pH of phosphoric acid is very acidic,
at 2.8. A substance of this pH can dissolve a nail in about four days. It can also clean the
corrosion off a car battery. The only reason that the acid in soda doesn't dissolve parts of your
body after ingesting it is that your body makes a powerful base to neutralize it. Numerous studies
have indicated that the sugar and acids in soda may cause tooth decay. In high concentrations,
phosphoric acids block calcium absorption and flush calcium out of your bones, making them
weak and prone to fracture. The phosphoric acid in soft drinks is also so strong that it reacts with
the aluminum inside the cans, dissolving microscopic bits of aluminum right into the soda.

Many sufferers of Alzheimer's disease have unusually high concentration of aluminum in their
brain tissue, suggesting a link between aluminum toxicity and the disease. In some states,
highway patrol officers keep cola in the trunks of their cars to clean blood off the highway after an
accident. Cola drinks can also loosen rusted bolts nearly as well as silicone spray. In fact, the
distributors of some cola drinks have been using it for over twenty years to clean the engines of
their trucks. These trucks, by the way, must display hazardous material signs reserved for highly
corrosive materials. According to some household cleaning websites, soda can even be sued as
a toilet cleaner and grease remover.

An average can of soda has 35 mg of caffeine, and most energy drinks contain about 80 mg
caffeine, along with other stimulants such as guarana and ginseng. Some energy drinks even
contain up to 280 mg caffeine. This is triple the amount of caffeine found in a cup of coffee.
These drinks boost heart rate, raise blood pressure, increase anxiety, dehydrate the body, and
cause insomnia.

All soft drinks contain sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or artificial sweeteners. Most soft drinks
contain around 13 teaspoons of sugar. Soda adds more sugar to a typical two-year-old's diet than
cookies, candy, and ice cream combined. High amounts of sugar entering the body quickly cause
your pancreas to release high amounts of insulin, which turns the sugar into fat. To get rid of this
fat, your body stops burning stored fat for energy and starts burning the new fat made from sugar.
Since you don't need that much energy, the new fat is stored in your fat cells, causing you to gain
weight. In fact, the risk of childhood obesity increases 1.6 times with each additional daily serving
of soda consumed. Over time, multiple daily insulin surges can cause insulin resistance and
diabetes.

Diet sodas are not a safe option, either. Your body detects the sweet taste, and produces the
same insulin response as in the non-diet drinks. Artificial sweeteners also contain chemicals that
break down in the body and cause neurological damage.

Drinking the average soft drink adds 200 extra calories to your diet. If you drink two soft drinks per
day, the extra calories alone will cause you to store an extra pound of fat every ten days. For
every two soft drinks you consume, the average person would have to run six miles an hour for
over an hour to burn them off.

Now, let's look at a much better alternative beverage--water. Seventy-five percent of Americans
are chronically dehydrated. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often
mistaken for hunger. (Any possible correlation to our obesity rates?) Even mild dehydration slows
down one's metabolism as much as 3%. Dehydration has been shown to be the number one
trigger of daytime fatigue. A mere 2% drop in body water triggers sluggish short-term memory,
trouble with basic math, and difficulties focusing on the computer screen or a printed page. Some
research has shown that drinking 64-80 ounces of water daily can significantly ease back and joint
pain for up to 80% of sufferers. Drinking 50 ounces of water daily has been shown to decrease
risk of colon cancer by 45%, breast cancer by 79%, and bladder cancer by 50%.

The more you know about what you put into your body, the better able you will be to make healthy
choices and feel better about yourself. Now, the next time you are thirsty, which will you grab--a
soft drink or a glass of water?

References: Fredericks-Franklin, Rachel, DC. "How Much Water." Handout, Jan 2002. Martino,
Russell J., Ph.D. "Colas, Soft Drinks, and Your Health." Found online at Total Health Dynamics,
June 2007. "Ten Reasons to Stay Away from Sodas and Energy Drinks." To Your Health, June
2007.




Dr. Heller is a chiropractor and certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS), practicing in
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. She has extensive experience teaching fitness classes, including
aquatics, to all age groups and abilities.

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