| Consumer Alert on Soft Drinks | | | | In order to replace the water stolen by soft drinks, |
| As Daniel Reid, author of The Tao of Detox, | | | | you need to drink at least 8-12 glasses of water for |
| explains, the sugary sweet, fizzy 'soft drink' is | | | | every glass of soft drinks that you consume. Soft |
| actually an 'acid bomb'. | | | | Drinks never quench your thirst, certainly not your |
| A 350 ml serving of Coke, Pepsi or similar drink | | | | body's need for water, in fact they make you want |
| delivers a sugar fix equivalent to about 9 teaspoons | | | | more of the same especially diet drinks. The |
| of sugar straight into the blood stream. This instantly | | | | elevated levels of phosphates in soft drinks leach |
| acidifies the bloodstream to the extreme point that | | | | vital minerals from your body. |
| without an immediate emergency response from the | | | | Soft Drinks are made with purified water that also |
| body, it would kill you in a mater of minutes. To | | | | leaches vital minerals from your body. A severe lack |
| counter act this rise in pH, you'd have to drink 32 | | | | of minerals can lead to Heart Disease (lack of |
| glasses of alkaline water to netralize the blood pH. | | | | magnesium), Osteoporosis (lack of calcium) and many |
| Soft drinks contain carbon dioxide, which is a waste | | | | other diseases. Most vitamins can not perform their |
| product of human metabolism and a primary | | | | functions in the body without the presence of |
| contributing factcor to blood acidosis. In addition, soft | | | | minerals. |
| drinks contain phosphoric acid, which has a very high | | | | Constantly denying your body an adequate amount |
| pH of 2.8. Since blood must be maintained at a slightly | | | | of water can lead to a Chronic Cellular Dehydration, a |
| alkaline ph of 7.35 at all times, this causes a further | | | | condition that weakens your body at the cellular level |
| drain on your bdies calcium resources. | | | | most symptoms are DRYNESS e. g. dry skin, dry |
| Soft Drinks are extremely acidic | | | | mouth, constipation etc. This can lead to a weakened |
| They can eat through the bottom of a liner of an | | | | immune system and all your system really needs is |
| aluminium can. This can leach aluminium from the | | | | hydrating with WATER. |
| can into the drink if it sits too long on the shelf. | | | | Soft drinks lead to a sugar crash |
| Alzheimer patients who been autopsied ALL have | | | | The high amount of sugar in Soft Drinks causes your |
| high levels of aluminium in their brains. Heavy metals in | | | | pancreas to produce an abundance of insulin, which |
| the body can lead to many neurological symptoms | | | | leads to a "sugar crash". This abundance of insulin |
| and other diseases. | | | | removes too much sugar from the blood stream |
| Soft Drinks have a pH of about 2.5, bellow pH 6.5 | | | | leaving you with low blood sugar level. You feel tired, |
| means Acidity which in turn means you are putting | | | | get forgetful, can't concentate and need a sugar fix! |
| something into your body that is thousands of times | | | | You then repeat the process. |
| more acidic than your body is designed to cope with. | | | | Chronic elevation and depletion of sugar and insulin |
| Critical pH is 5.5 at which tooth and mineral will | | | | can lead to diabetes and other imbalanced related |
| dissolve! Unhealthy cells flourish in an acidic | | | | diseases. This is particularly disruptive to growing |
| environment. Soft Drinks and acidic foods deposit | | | | children and can lead to life-long health problems. |
| acid waste in the body which accumulates over a | | | | Soft drinks shut down the digestive process |
| period of time. These wastes manifest themselves | | | | Soft Drinks severely interfere with digestion, the |
| as joint problems and organ dysfunction. The Body | | | | caffeine and high amounts of sugar virtually shut |
| pH of cancer or arthritis patients is always low/acidic. | | | | down the digestive process. |
| Alkalosis is another scenario, in that your body could | | | | That means your body is essentially taking in NO |
| have a very high pH, this is caused by an acidic cell | | | | nutrients from the food you may have just eaten, |
| base. However, as a rule of thumb the more ill a | | | | even food that was eaten hours earlier. Soft drinks |
| person is the lower their Body pH. Soft Drinks are | | | | consumed with french-fries can take WEEKS to |
| one the most acidic forming substances that you can | | | | digest. This can also lead to a syndrome where large |
| possibly put into your body, especially avoid these | | | | proteins pass into the blood via the small intestine |
| when you are ill, even with a cold, flu or something | | | | and cause allergic reactions. |
| that may be worse, the acidic content of the drink | | | | Diet soft drinks and Aspartame |
| will help to maintain the condition. | | | | Out of the frying pan, into the fire! Diet soft drinks |
| It will be much harder for your body to ward off any | | | | contain Aspartame, which has been linked to |
| illness whilst it is also trying to correct your pH. | | | | depression, insomnia, neurological disease and a |
| If you have amalgam fillings and drink soft drinks | | | | plethora of other illnesses. |
| then having a soft drink will bring about what is | | | | The FDA has received more than 10,000 consumer |
| known as an acid attack on the fillings and so leach | | | | complaints about Aspartame, that is 80% of all |
| out more of the mercury vapour in your amalgam | | | | complaints about food additives. Soft drinks with |
| fillings. | | | | Aspartame left in the sun/heat can turn the drink into |
| Combine this with the possible leakage from the | | | | Formaldehyde |
| aluminium of the can and you have a potent cocktail | | | | Ask anyone who drinks diet drinks how much they |
| of acidity and heavy metals attacking your precious | | | | consume they think they are being healthy but in |
| pH levels, as well as enabling disease processes that | | | | fact the opposite is true and these drinks also make |
| may be going on to consolidate or proliferate. | | | | you gain weight! Formaldehyde is a very toxic |
| Soft Drinks acidity can remove rust from a car | | | | substance. There is an increase in sensitivity to |
| bumper or other metal surfaces like coins. Can you | | | | formaldehyde when there is a disruption in the |
| imagine what it's doing to your digestive tract as well | | | | methionine (sulfur) pathway. It has been listed as |
| as the rest of your body? | | | | carcinogen by EPA, its vapours intensely irritating to |
| Soft drinks steal water from the body | | | | mucous membranes. Topical application (ie on the |
| They work very much like a diuretic, which takes | | | | skin) may produce an irritant dermatitis. Ingestion |
| away more water than it provides to the body. For | | | | may cause severe abdominal pain, hematemesis, |
| your body to process the high levels of sugar in soft | | | | hematuria, proteinuria, anaemia, acidosis, vertigo, |
| drinks it uses a considerable amount water, which is | | | | coma, and death. |
| required for other bodily functions. | | | | Visit for mor information. |