Are Soft Drinks Healthy?. Review on Are Soft Drinks Healthy

October 10, 2002.

Hello Friends,

Hi! Friends, I am back again.

We human being are addicted to something or the other in

life.

If not addicted, then we are made to be addicted by various means.

I for one, am a cola guzzler, may be it from the stable of

any of those MNC, and any brand, Coke, Pepsi, Thums Up etc.

In fact, I remember about five years back, I had about 12 bottles of those colas in a day!

Well, now I have some what controlled my cola habits.

Since, last few days I had been searching my database for a

particular article which was forwarded by one of my friends

from Australia.

Fortunately, I have just got hold of this article, and here I am

uploading the same.

Friends, kindly do read this article and think for yourselves on the issue raised on this article.

I have often come across people in restaurants, at

grocery shops, where I found parents handing over

a bottle or a glass of these aerated beverages to young kids.

After reading this article, they should decide what

they should be doing.

Kindly be reminded once again, that this is a copy of an article which was forwarded to me, and not an original one from me.

WASH DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS WITH A COKE!

(By Dr.Vidyashankar B.R.)

Look at the wrapper on a Coca-Cola 1.5 liter bottle and in the list of ingredients you will find phosphoric acid. Minute quantities of  ethylene glycol is also used(which is acknowledged in the soft drink world  for making it'really chill').  This is popularly known as anti-freeze which prevents water from freezing at 0  deg C and instead drops it by 4-5 degrees  with minute quantities. This chemical is a known slow poison in the caliber of arsenic.  So, if you manage to drink about 4 liters of Coke within an hour or so, you can die. Read along and give up these dangerous things.

Guess what's the pH for soft drinks, e.g. Coke? pH 3.4! This acidity is  strong enough to dissolve teeth  and bones! Our human body stops building  bones at the age of about 30. Soft drinks do not have any  nutrition value  (in terms of vitamins &minerals). It is high in sugar content, carbonic acid, chemicals i.e. colorings etc. Some like to take cold soft drinks after each meal. Guess  what's the impact? Our body  needs an  optimum temperature of 37 degrees Celsius for digestive-enzyme functioning.

The temperature of cold soft drinks is very much below 37 degrees or even close to 0 degrees  celsius.  This will dilute the enzymes & stress the digestive system. The food taken will not be digested. In fact it will be fermented! The fermented food produces gases, decays and becomes toxin, gets absorbed  by the intestine, circulates in the blood stream and is carried to the whole  body. Hence toxin is accumulated in other parts of the body, developing into  various diseases. Think before you drink Coke/Pepsi(or any soft drink) again. Have you ever thought what you drink when you  drink an aerated drink?

You gulp down carbon dioxide, when nobody in the world would advise you to drink CO2. Two months  back, there was a  competition at Delhi University -  'Who could drink the most Coke?' The winner  drank 8 bottles and fainted on the spot- too much CO2 in the blood. Thereafter, the principal banned all soft drinks from the college canteen! While this might have been an extreme measure, the  results do provide some food for thought.

Did you know that soft drinks use  chemicals in them that cause immense  harm to you. Someone put a  broken tooth  in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it DISSOLVED! Can you believe it? Teeth  and bones  are the only human parts that stay intact for years after  death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to  your soft intestines and  stomach lining! Request to All: Forward this message to your friends  to increase the awareness of the great USA-made soft drinks. In  India, people hesitate to pay Rs.7-8/- for a tender coconut but  prefer to pay Rs. 10/- and drink these dreadful products.  Be natural, have flavored  milks, tender coconuts, butter milk, lassi and plain water instead of these  'soft' drinks. Please read this and forward to all your friends, regarding these harmful  soft drinks.

Friends, its now on you to decide whether or how much of such products you should have.

Thanks

A.B