Why Drinking Sodas Will Kill You

Thinking of going on a diet? Want a New Year’s resolution that could save your life?

The first step to any diet is to get rid of soda. The smartest resolution to make is to kick these addicting cans of caffeinated beverages out of your house. What makes this liquid candy a hidden danger? Check it out:

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Why you shouldn’t drink sodas:

1. Soda plays an active role in America’s increasing waistline.

“Obesity rates have risen in tandem with soda consumption. Soft drinks provide 10.3% of the calories consumed by overweight teenage boys, but only 7.6% of the calories consumed by other boys. The National Institutes of Health recommends that people trying to lose or control their weight should drink water instead of soft drinks with sugar.” (citation)

2. They could cause kidney stones, especially if aided by the use of alcohol. I would advise you put that coke and rum away now. Did I mention   the use of coke and rum can do some serious damage on your nervous system because coke is a stimulant and kickstarts your system, but when mixed with rum (a depressant) your nervous system doesn’t know what to do.

“Soft drinks may increase the recurrence of kidney stones. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) includes cola beverages on a list of foods that doctors may advise patients to avoid.” (citation)

3. Instead of drinking milk, teens consume more soda.

As teens have doubled or tripled their consumption of soft drinks, they drank 40% less milk. Twenty years ago, boys consumed twice as much milk as soft drinks, and girls consumed 50% more milk than soft drinks. Now, boys and girls consume twice as much soda pop as milk.

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4. Sodas contain harmful chemicals as well as the infamously unnatural, lab created high fructose corn syrup. (See my previous article about this chemical)

The artificial sweetener saccharin, which is now used only in a few brands, has been linked in human studies to urinary-bladder cancer and in animal studies to cancers of the bladder and other organs. The safety of acesulfame-K, which is used in the new Pepsi One, has been questioned by several cancer experts.

Below: The Soda From Hell!

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5. Dr. Pepper is even targeting little children, trying to make their dangerous liquid candy a staple in children’s diets. As they place their products strategically in toddler’s lives, it’s only a testament to the fact that soda companies are evil. By consuming sodas, you are putting your money in the hands of people willing to manipulate children.

“Pepsi, Dr Pepper, and Seven-Up encourage feeding soft drinks to toddlers by licensing their logos to a maker of baby bottles, Munchkin Bottling, Inc. Infants and toddlers are four times likelier to be fed soda pop out of those bottles than out of regular baby bottles.” (citation)

Let’s think twice before buying that soda. You just may be financing the agendas of the companies who have decided to play a deadly role in the obesity epidemic.

-Rika

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