Much of this is true, but author is off base blaming it on carbon dioxide (except the death from drinking too much too fast messing up the blood ph due to CO2 coming in faster than it could be breathed out). The real culprit for the loss of calcium is the phosphoric acid in these drinks. The carbon dioxide produces carbonic acid, which is an organic acid, phosphoric acid is an in-organic acid, and must be eliminated by the kidneys. Carbon dioxide is simply burped and breathed out in short order if you are healthy.
Marshall Judith Thamm wrote: > More reasons to think before you drink.. > Judith. > > author unknown) > > Soft Drinks: > > WE DRINK THIS STUFF, and give it to the children! > > Coke & Pepsi For your info: The average pH of soft drinks, e.g. Coke, > Pepsi is pH 3.4. This acid is strong enough to dissolve teeth and > bones! > > Our human body stops building bones at around the age of 30. After > that it'll be dissolving about 8-18% of our bones each year through > the > urine depending on the acidity of the food intake (acidity does not > depend > on the taste of the food, but on the ratio of potassium / calcium > /magnesium > / etc. to phosphorus). All the dissolved calcium compounds accumulate > in the > arteries, veins, skin tissue, organs. This affects the functioning of > the > kidney (kidney stones). Soft drinks do not have any nutritional value > (in > terms of vitamins and minerals). They have higher sugar content, > higher > acidity, and more additives such as preservatives and colorings. > > Some people like to take cold soft drinks after each meal, guess > what's the impact? Our body has an optimum temperature of 98.6 degrees > F for > the functioning of digestive enzymes. The temperature of cold soft > drinks is > much less than optimum, sometimes quite close to freezing. This will > lower > the effectiveness of the enzymes and put stress on the digestive > system, > digesting less food. In fact the food gets fermented. The fermented > food > produces bad smelling gases, decays and forms toxins that are absorbed > in > the intestines, get circulated in the blood and is delivered to the > whole > body. This spread of toxins can lead to the development of various > diseases. > > Think before you drink Coke or Pepsi or other soft drink. Have you > ever > thought what you drink when you drink an aerated drink? You gulp down > carbon > dioxide, something that nobody in the world would advise you to do. > > Recently, there was a competition in Delhi University "Who can drink > the > most Coke?". The winner drank 8 bottles and died on the spot because > too > much carbon dioxide in the blood and not enough oxygen. From then on, > the > dean banned all soft drinks from the university canteen. > > Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it is > dissolved! > Teeth and bones are the only human structures that stay intact for > years > after > death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to your soft intestines > and > stomach lining! Try putting a common metal nail in a container of Coke > and > see how long it takes to dissolve. > > A special thanks to Peggy Joy B. for the following on how to use Coke > & > Pepsi... > for your benefit! > > For those of you who love Coke/Pepsi... > Just when you thought you knew everything.... > > To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Let > the > "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in > Coke > removes stains from vitreous china. > > To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a > crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. > > To clean corrosion from car battery terminals; pour a can of Coca-Cola > over > the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. To loosen a rusted bolt; > apply a > cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. > > To bake a moist ham; Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; > wrap the > ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is > finished, > remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for > sumptuous > brown gravy. > > To remove grease from clothes; empty a can of Coke into a load of > greasy > clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola > will > help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze and honey from > your > windshield. > > Feel free to forward this message to your family & friends to increase > their > awareness of what these chemical soft drinks really are. > ************************************************* > Source for the following: > MeMail.com: Heavy Science > http://www.memail.com > > Stories of modern science...From UPI > By JIM KLING, UPI Science Writer > > QUESTIONS ABOUT CAFFEINE'S ROLE IN SODA > Soft-drink manufacturers have long maintained that they put > caffeine > in their drinks in order to improve the taste, but a recent > experiment > suggests otherwise, according to a report in this week's edition of > New > Scientist. Researchers found that only 2 out of 25 adult cola > drinkers > could distinguish the tastes of sodas with caffeine. "This stands in > sharp contrast to the claim some soft-drinks manufacturers make that > they add caffeine purely for taste," says Johns Hopkins > psychopharmacologist Roland Griffiths, who led the study. "They're > adding a mildly addictive drug, one which surely accounts for the > fact > that people drink far more sodas with caffeine than without." The > U.S. > National Soft Drink Association condemned the study, saying: "too > few > people were tested, too little science was used." > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
