"Safe System Solutions" > wrote in
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> On 7 Apr 2005 00:07:09 -0700, wrote:
>
> >Warning About Consuming Soft Drinks
> >
> >Soft drinks like Pepsi and Coke have gained popularity over the years.
> >Even now more boolywood stars are encouraging the consumer class of
> >India to drink an increasing amount of soft drinks. But we should be
> >forewarned about what they may really do to our body.
> >
> >Have a look at the wrapper on a Coca-Cola 1.5 liter bottle and in the
> >ingredients label you will find phosphoric acid in it. Minute
> >quantities
> >of ethylene glycol are 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 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.
> >
> >Guess what's the pH for soft drinks, e.g. Coke? PH 3.4! This acidity
> >is strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones! So this adds to the
> >softening of bones and tissue, which becomes a major issue as we get
> >older. Our human body stops building bones at the age of about 30.
> >After that it shall be dissolving the bones every year through the
> >urine depending on the acidity of the food intake. All the dissolved
> >calcium compounds get accumulated in the arteries, veins, skin, tissue
> >and organs, which affects the functioning of the kidney assisting in
> >formation of kidney stones.
> >
> >Soft drinks also 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 toxins are cumulated 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 ingest 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, their 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 "Assumed soft drinks". Drink natural drinks
> >rather than those made of artificial chemicals and colorings. People
> >in India hesitate to pay Rs.7-8/- for a tender coconut but prefer to
> >pay Rs. 10/- or more and drink these dreadful products. Be careful.
> >
> >How Coke and Pepsi are HELPFUL ?
> >
> >To clean a toilet:
> >Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Wait for one hour, then
> >flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous
> >china.
> >
> >
> >To clean corrosion from car battery terminals :
> >Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the
> >corrosion.
> >
> >To remove grease from clothes :
> >Pour a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and
> >run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola/Pepsi will help loosen
> >grease stains.
> >
> >WE DRINK THIS STUFF !!!
> >
> >OFF COURSE TO CLEAN OUR SYSTEM TOO. AFTER ALL WE ARE PAYING FOR IT.
> >
>
>
> Where did you get this information? Was it a comic book, the National
> Enquirer, or The Onion newspaper?
>
most of it is factual (excepting the histrionics).
The part about the phosphoric acid and the tooth enamel is indeed
correct, and it has been so accepted in dental circles as to have supplanted
sugar as the big bad culprit in tooth decay
(the body has protections from sugar in the mouth - phosphoric acid
removes them)
FWIW, soft drinks are advertised based almost entirely using indirect
references to "fresh" and the "fresh-mouth-feel". So they need that cleaning
feel.
( I understand that older sodas had carbonic acid, not phosphoric. That
Ph was a less aggressive 5.5.)
The flushing of the mouth of all coatings to get that feeling is done by
using the more aggressive phosphoric acid.
Phosphoric is the same acid many dentists use to etch the enamel and the
underlying material of a cleaned cavity just before applying the adhesive to
hold a "white" filing in place.
BTW, drinking a bottle of carbonated beverage slowly, e.g, a drink every
few minutes, corrodes the teeth more than any other mode of intake.