Soft drinks this bad?
 

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Shocking Soda Fact #2: Soda contains flame retardants

Some popular soda brands, including Mountain Dew, use brominated vegetable oil—a toxic flame retardant—to keep the artificial flavoring from separating from the rest of the liquid. This hazardous ingredient—sometimes listed as BVO on soda and sports drinks—can cause bromide poisoning symptoms like skin lesions and memory loss, as well as nerve disorders

from Wikipedia:

Health effects (of Brominated vegetable oil):

In one case, a man who drank eight liters of Ruby-Red Squirt daily had a reaction that caused his skin color to turn red and produced lesions diagnosed as bromoderma. The excessive quantities together with the fact that the man had a higher than normal sensitivity to bromine made this an unusual case.[2] A similar case reported that a man who consumed two to four liters of a cola containing BVO on a daily basis experienced memory loss, tremors, fatigue, loss of muscle coordination, headache, ptosis of the right eyelid as well as elevated serum chloride.[3] In the two months it took to correctly diagnose the problem, the patient also lost the ability to walk. Eventually bromism was diagnosed and hemodialysis was prescribed which resulted in a reversal of the disorder.[4]

8L = two gallons! Who drinks two GALLONS of sugarwater per day? Moderation is good, as with anything.

Shouldn't matter how much is consumed. It's a crime this stuff is our sodapop.

Yes it is, but anyone who drinks two gallons of pop per day is really asking for it, brominated oil or not.

The country is full of people with poor eating habits. Some habits would be less poor if the chemical ingredients in food were not so bad.
But you do have a point. Anyone drinking 2 gallons a day of any liquid, even good water, has some issues.

People get nutty with the stuff. My sister drank diet coke for years, thinking she'd lose weight. She finally quit drinking it and lost weight with a different, more thorough approach. The diet stuff is just awful - never thought it was a good way to go. What a bizarre mix of chemicals.

I could easily drink 3 or 4 12 oz. bottles a day in my teen years, mostly coke or mtn. dew. Didn't do my teeth any favors.

Most people gain weight when drinking diet coke. The first spike of obesity in the states was in the early seventies when corn syrup replaced sugar and the second in the 80's after the diet products were introduced. Aspartame; the artificial sweetener found in diet coke is pure poison. (link)

Maybe once a year I have a regular soda, on a super hot day when I'm on set.

It's basically chemical soup in this country.

Best tasting soda I ever had was French limonade, basically a natural equivalent of Sprite or 7up.

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I am not sure how the current garden variety French limonade is made, but this stuff can't be too bad for you.

Sierra Mist is the US equivalent- somehow I don't trust it.

I call BS. Heck, water puts out fire. Does that make it bad to drink? No. How long has soda pop been around? Long time.

I know its not the best and I drink it rarely. I primarily drink natural flavored seltzer water. But anything can kill, cause poor health. Including drinking too much water.

Crime? Really? What law was broken??

At least I won't spontaneously combust!

Most drinks are just liquid food. Liquid food substitute would be more precise.

You breathe nonstop to try to rid your body of CO2 and then you ingest CO2 in carbonated beverages - stupid. Carbolic acid. Acid/Base balance is a big part of emergency medicine. There are many medical slang names for pH imbalance and most of them include the word death. Phosphoric acid is also common in soft drinks.

Chemical mixes are not food. Many of them are waste products that are sold as food to save the cost of disposal. Instead of disposal costs they make a profit selling the garbage as food to addicts like you and me. When we get sick they sell us more chemicals as medicine. I know it is hard to take this as fact but it is your health and when it is gone, you're done.

Read about animal food and research. It is easier to find the unglossed truth there because they don't feel the need to hide the truth. They show you smart they are to profitably raise animals by feeding them garbage. You are nothing but livestock to them.

Your death notice means X number of dollars was pumped through the economy, goodbye.

Carbonic acid. Carbolic acid would be phenol, which would make you get serious chemical burns where you least want them :eek: Anyway, most of the CO2 comes out of solution whilst drinking or just after and gets burped out.

Of all the $h!t that's going to kill me, soft drinks are a ways down the list.

Soda is processed "food". Nuff said in my book. Still, about 3 or 4 times a year I'll get a craving for a 16 ounce Mexican Coke in the tall glass bottle. It tastes better than U.S. Coke to me, not as cloyingly sweet as it's still made with sugar and not HFCS.