Killing Softly!


Happen to get lot of mails on the health hazards of the aerated bottled drinks. Thought will scribble something on it.

Have a look at the wrapper on a 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 aknown 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! 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. colors etc.

Some like to take cold soft drinks after each meal. Guess what's theimpact? Our body needs an optimum temperature of 37 degrees Celsius fordigestive 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 foodtaken will not be digested. In fact it will be fermented! The fermentedfood produces gases, decays and becomes toxin, gets absorbed by theintestine, circulates in the blood stream and is carried to the whole body. Hence toxin is cumulated in other parts of the body, developing into various diseases. Think before you drink coke (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 "Who could drink the most Coke?" The winner drank 8 bottles and fainted on the spot; too much CO2 in the blood.

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! 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!

Well it is not just the Coke and Pepsi, but almost everything nowadays is slow poison. So have something healthy too, to nullify it. Perhaps it is time to consider taking food supplements as multivitamins and protein powders.


Ref: Marion Nestle, Food Politics

For more info, visit:
http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/sep/hlt-cola.htm
http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/cocacola021605.cfm
http://www.whoseflorida.com/misc_pages/hazardous_evenwithout_pesticides.htm