Mix into your soda for healthier living.
This brief presentation will discuss how colas and other soft drinks can harm your body and what we have discovered that will change things for the better. We will discuss the ingredients in these drinks and what they do various systems in your body. More important, we will tell you what you can do to live healthier.
For many years food nutritionists have been aware of health issues associated with colas. These resulted from ingredients such as sugars, sweeteners, phosphoric acid, caffeine and others found in all colas which we will review shortly. Any they have advised to limit the intake of colas and drink instead water, fruit juices, or milk. Many schools have taken the step of banning these drinks from school cafeterias and from playground vending machines. Have these efforts been successful?
School Bans Coca-Cola Sales at Football Games
Americans continue to drink massive amounts of cola drinks. The average American consumes one to two servings per day. That totals up to 7.5 billion gallons in the US annually. The reasons for this continued success of colas are the marketing techniques used by the manufacturers as well as the simple reason that they taste good. Many people prefer the taste of colas to water or other healthier drinks. And no amount of education of adults or children about the health of soft drinks will make them abandon a good tasting drink for a healthier one that doesn’t taste good.
Are School Soda Bans Useless?
by Bettina Elias Siegel on November 8, 2011
A recent study reported yesterday by the New York Times Well blog indicates they may be.
The study, published in this week’s The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, looked at the sugary drink consumption of 7,000 fifth and eighth graders over a three-year period and its first conclusion isn’t so surprising: when schools banned only soda but not other sugary drinks, sugary beverage purchases on campus did not drop as compared to schools with no beverage ban at all.
Look at the labels next time you buy a drink and you will learn a lot. We will show you some labels
from drinks you probably recently consumed which are among the more popular drinks on store
shelves.
The common ingredients in all these drinks include combinations of
carbonated water,
high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners,
phosphoric acid,
caffeine, and
other ingredients.
The effects of increased caloric intake from the non-diet drinks is well documented. The increased Caloric content of these drinks has been linked to obesity in children and adults.
What you may not know is the harmful effects of colas on bones and teeth. Drinking colas has been associated with osteoporosis, or softening of the bones, and with loss of tooth enamel. The softening of bones results in bones that are softer and fracture easier than normal health bones.
Loss of enamel in teeth has resulted in rotting of teeth in people in their teens who frequently drink cola. What is the mechanism that colas attack bones and teeth?
While the results of colas on bones and teeth has been well documented, scientists have proposed various mechanisms to explain this phenomenon.
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Phosphoric acid has been implicated as the cause.
This substance is found in all colas and is used to help keep the carbonated bubbles from going flat. This helps give colas their tangy taste. Phosphoric acid has been theorized to leach calcium from the bones directly.
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Other scientists claim that by drinking colas the body is deprived of nutrients such as calcium that the bones and teeth need to stay healthy. Whatever the cause, the net result is weaker bones and rotten teeth.
The Calcium-Phophorus ratio. Scientists have known for a long time that if you ingest phosphorus it must be neutralized by at least an equal amount of calcium to prevent harmful effects on your bones.
It is recommended that there be at least a 1:1 ration of calcium to phosphorus. The amount of
phosphorus in the form of phosphoric acid in colas varies between the different drinks, some having
more than others. So why don’t manufacturers just add calcium to the cola drinks in at least a
1:1 ratio to neutralize the effects of the phosphorus.
If you add calcium to colas, the calcium will combine with the ingredients in the cola and precipitate or
fall to the bottom of the container. The calcium will not stay dissolved in the drink. The technical
expression for this is that the calcium is insoluble. If you look at the ingredients of cola drinks they will
usually have a note that they contain no significant amount of calcium in the drink. It has been physically
impossible to maintain calcium dissolved in a cola drink. Up to now. This is our solution.
Using natural ingredients we have discovered a way to add calcium to colas and it will stay dissolved. It will not fall to the bottom of the container. The method we achieved this is patented. We now make it available in an easy to use pouch you just add to the drink. It won’t change the taste. You won’t know it’s there. But your bones and teeth will. They will be grateful to you.
In a study done at the University of Indiana, done independently and published without our input or prior knowledge, they measured the effect of various drinks on tooth enamel. Look at the graph.
The drink labeled Calci which contains the active ingredient in TopIt, had the least harmful effect on
tooth enamel. Compare this to the other popular soft drinks they tested.
