Diet AND regular soft drinks make you fat and much worse, part 2....
Today's Post: Thursday, 7-15-2010
This is part 2 of the post that we did last time, on Tuesday, 7-13.
6. You get yellow teeth and look MUCH older. The phosphoric acid also tends to remove your tooth enamel. And, since the enamel is white and the tooth underneath is yellow. This tends after a few years to make your teeth look yellow. People in their nineties get this effect even without soft drinks. But why make it happen decades sooner and pay to buy the product that does it?
7. You will be more likely to get cancer, particularly esophageal and pancreatic cancer.
Sodium benzoate is used as a preservative in many soft drinks. When vitamin C, ascorbic acid, and possibly other acids such as phosphoric acid, from the soft drink or food you eat is mixed with sodium benzoate, it releases benzene which is a proven carcinogen. The main cancer this seems to cause is esophageal as the soft drink goes down your esophagus into your stomach.
The excessive sugars from the regular soft drinks or from what you eat after the sugar cravings from drinking diet soft drinks also tend to lower your immune system’s cancer fighting ability. Recently it was found than even a few soft drinks a week just about doubled your chances of getting pancreatic cancer.
8. Research from a university in the UK apparently found that, similar to what other researchers recently found for cigarette smoke, sodium benzoate also disables key protections in your DNA in a way that causes mitochondrial damage and such degenerative diseases as liver damage and nerve damage diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.
9. You may even boost your chances of getting brain damage and senility. The heart disease and type 2 diabetes that soft drinks contribute to have been implicated in helping to cause both vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by harming your blood vessels and cutting down on brain circulation and by giving it too much or too little glucose. One study found that excess fructose directly made memory worse. And, some studies apparently have found a variety of mental and brain problems in some people who drink diet soft drinks with aspartame.
10. Kidney stones are super painful and can be quite expensive to treat. Apparently something in both regular and diet cola soft drinks tends to cause kidney stones AND long term kidney disease. Since kidney disease can harm your brain, this may be a cause of the brain damage. And, since kidney disease tends to harm your heart, this is an extra way cola soft drinks cause heart disease.
11. Heartburn that happens very often and almost every day is called GERD by the doctors, which stands for Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease. The muscular valve to your stomach where you want acid to digest your food, loosens up too much and you get acid in your esophagus. That either hurts as if the inside of you was being burned, which it is to some degree, OR it makes you feel as if something inside you is pressing firmly on your chest.
Worse, if it happens too much, the muscular valve gets stretched too much and opens too easily. The carbonation in soft drinks and possibly the phosphoric apparently tend to make this happen or worse when it does happen. Or, it may be the excess fat from drinking soft drinks makes less room for your stomach and tends to push it open. Regardless of the cause though, people who drink soft drinks tend to get GERD more often.
12. Lower fertility. One study found that men who drank a lot of cola soft drinks had less sperm than men who did not drink soft drinks of didn’t drink them as much. And, research in Europe found that the artificial sweeteners in diet colas increase the miscarriage rate and did so more if the women drank more of them!
So, between the parts, both regular and diet soft drinks not only make you fat if you drink more than one or two a MONTH, they cause or help cause nearly as many serious health problems as tobacco smoke.
So, what can be done?
a) If you’d prefer to avoid being or staying fat or want to stay healthy, virtually never drink soft drinks.
b) And, if you’d like to help protect the health of people who have never learned why soft drinks are harmful and lower our rising health care costs, support taxes on both regular and diet soft drinks that at least equal their current selling price.
The research is clear. When soft drinks cost that much more, people buy less of them.
Today's Post: Thursday, 7-15-2010
This is part 2 of the post that we did last time, on Tuesday, 7-13.
6. You get yellow teeth and look MUCH older. The phosphoric acid also tends to remove your tooth enamel. And, since the enamel is white and the tooth underneath is yellow. This tends after a few years to make your teeth look yellow. People in their nineties get this effect even without soft drinks. But why make it happen decades sooner and pay to buy the product that does it?
7. You will be more likely to get cancer, particularly esophageal and pancreatic cancer.
Sodium benzoate is used as a preservative in many soft drinks. When vitamin C, ascorbic acid, and possibly other acids such as phosphoric acid, from the soft drink or food you eat is mixed with sodium benzoate, it releases benzene which is a proven carcinogen. The main cancer this seems to cause is esophageal as the soft drink goes down your esophagus into your stomach.
The excessive sugars from the regular soft drinks or from what you eat after the sugar cravings from drinking diet soft drinks also tend to lower your immune system’s cancer fighting ability. Recently it was found than even a few soft drinks a week just about doubled your chances of getting pancreatic cancer.
8. Research from a university in the UK apparently found that, similar to what other researchers recently found for cigarette smoke, sodium benzoate also disables key protections in your DNA in a way that causes mitochondrial damage and such degenerative diseases as liver damage and nerve damage diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.
9. You may even boost your chances of getting brain damage and senility. The heart disease and type 2 diabetes that soft drinks contribute to have been implicated in helping to cause both vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by harming your blood vessels and cutting down on brain circulation and by giving it too much or too little glucose. One study found that excess fructose directly made memory worse. And, some studies apparently have found a variety of mental and brain problems in some people who drink diet soft drinks with aspartame.
10. Kidney stones are super painful and can be quite expensive to treat. Apparently something in both regular and diet cola soft drinks tends to cause kidney stones AND long term kidney disease. Since kidney disease can harm your brain, this may be a cause of the brain damage. And, since kidney disease tends to harm your heart, this is an extra way cola soft drinks cause heart disease.
11. Heartburn that happens very often and almost every day is called GERD by the doctors, which stands for Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease. The muscular valve to your stomach where you want acid to digest your food, loosens up too much and you get acid in your esophagus. That either hurts as if the inside of you was being burned, which it is to some degree, OR it makes you feel as if something inside you is pressing firmly on your chest.
Worse, if it happens too much, the muscular valve gets stretched too much and opens too easily. The carbonation in soft drinks and possibly the phosphoric apparently tend to make this happen or worse when it does happen. Or, it may be the excess fat from drinking soft drinks makes less room for your stomach and tends to push it open. Regardless of the cause though, people who drink soft drinks tend to get GERD more often.
12. Lower fertility. One study found that men who drank a lot of cola soft drinks had less sperm than men who did not drink soft drinks of didn’t drink them as much. And, research in Europe found that the artificial sweeteners in diet colas increase the miscarriage rate and did so more if the women drank more of them!
So, between the parts, both regular and diet soft drinks not only make you fat if you drink more than one or two a MONTH, they cause or help cause nearly as many serious health problems as tobacco smoke.
So, what can be done?
a) If you’d prefer to avoid being or staying fat or want to stay healthy, virtually never drink soft drinks.
b) And, if you’d like to help protect the health of people who have never learned why soft drinks are harmful and lower our rising health care costs, support taxes on both regular and diet soft drinks that at least equal their current selling price.
The research is clear. When soft drinks cost that much more, people buy less of them.
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