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Anyone read this:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/cont...A.107.689935v1
Pretty amazing. I'm not at all surprised that pop is this bad for you I'm just kind of shocked that sugar and caffeine seemed to be irrelevant.
Anyone think it's the phosphoric acid?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn5002
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrin...ndrome/tb/6225
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070723...ithcardiacrisk
Both cancer and cardio.
Ironically beer, coffee, and tea seem to be good for you in moderation.
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I’m going to have to read your links again. I missed the part where beer is good for you. The link from newscientist.com indicates that a plausible explanation is the fizziness or carbonation in soda that distends the stomach quite a bit more than regular water, causing a greater incidence of acid reflux, which alters ph balances, etc.
It seems that beer would have this same problem. Can you shed some more light on this? It’s beer that I’m really interested in, particularly micro brews. Please tell me they are healthy for me.
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proper beer isn't carbinated.
maybe soda isn't bad in itself but correlates with ill-health because its instead of beer.
chez