1. Soft drinks mess with your digestive system. If you eat healthy foods, soft drinks obstruct your body in the process of taking in the nutrients. So not only are soft drinks unhealthy, they lessen the benefits of the healthy stuff too.
2. Soft drinks can leach off the aluminum inside the can when stored for longer periods. Coincidentally, autopsies of Alzheimer patients reveal heightened aluminum levels in the brain. Metal in the brain – that doesn’t necessarily sound like a good thing.
3. Tooth Decay such as total loss of enamel on the teeth (that used to occur only among the elderly) has been reported by dentists in teenage boys and girls who are frequent consumers of soft drinks. Maybe the kids Christmas presents this year should be a teeth whitening series?
4. Soft drinks make you thirstier because they contain sodium (a form of salt). If you get thirsty, have another can!
5. Soft Drinks contain a wide variety of chemical acids like acetic, fumaric, gluconic, and phosphoric acids. No wonder sodas are very effective when it comes to removing rust from a car bumper or cleaning car engines. Maybe they should launch a new product: Coca-Cleaner - they could certainly use some of the same ingredients, if not just the same recipe.
6. Soft drinks lead to weakened bones, particularly in growing teens due to a lack of calcium rich fluid consumption. Soft drinks have also been linked with bone fractures in teenage girls.
7. Soft drinks weaken your immune system. Drinking soft drinks instead of water can weaken your body at the cellular level causing a weakened immune system.
8. Diet soft drinks contain Aspartame, an additive that has been linked with depression, insomnia, neurological disease and a many other diseases. Aspartame is a strong neurotoxin and endocrine disrupter.
9. Soft drinks are hundreds of thousands times more acidic than the natural environment in your body. Diseases thrive in an acidic environment.
10. The phosphates in soft drinks leach vital minerals from your body. A severe lack of minerals such as magnesium and calcium can cause heart disease, osteoporosis and many other diseases.
11. Excessive sugar in soft drinks causes your pancreas to produce an abundance of insulin, which leads to a “sugar crash”. Chronic elevation and depletion of sugar and insulin can lead to diabetes and other imbalance related diseases. This particularly affects growing children and it can set the stage for life-long health problems.
12. Soft drink companies specifically aim to get more young customers - so much for corporate responsibility.
13. Soft drinks are highly addictive - trying to quit often cause withdrawal symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, anxiety, and nausea. Does that sound like someone trying to quite drugs?
14. Soft drinks commonly cause gastrointestinal distress including heightened acid levels in the stomach and moderate to severe gastric inflammation and possible stomach lining erosion
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