The Diabetic Choice of a New Generation
I read something horrifying on msn.com the other day. Another indictment on soda consumption...but c'mon, we all know it isn't great for you. Right?
There was lots of stuff that was bad, but the clincher was a longitudinal study that looked at a couple thousand women through a very long period of time (yes, I forget specifics) which concluded that women who drank a single soda daily were 83 percent more likely to develop diabetes as compared to the group who reportedly had a soda monthly. None of the respondents were diabetic at the beginning of the study.
As someone who has a very serious Pepsi addiction and a very serious fear of needles, I am mortified. So much so, in fact, that it cut my Pepsi consumption by...oh, probably 98 percent.
The other thing they mentioned was that soda is essentially ''liquid candy,'' and it alters the pH and acidity of you saliva. The acid of level of soda is something ludicrously close to that of battery acid, anyway. The effects are compounded when you drink soda like most people do...slowly, over the period of an hour or two. If you just chugged the stuff down and you were done with it, your mouth would return to normal in about 20 minutes. But for those who drink it slowly and drink a few (?) cans a day, the acid levels never return to normal. It's like dropping your teeth in battery acid and leaving them there all day.
Might explain my dental woes, too. My wisdom teeth are giving me fits.
The only thing left to do is to find a way to make water more appealing. Which is unfortunate, since I really don't LIKE water that much.
There was lots of stuff that was bad, but the clincher was a longitudinal study that looked at a couple thousand women through a very long period of time (yes, I forget specifics) which concluded that women who drank a single soda daily were 83 percent more likely to develop diabetes as compared to the group who reportedly had a soda monthly. None of the respondents were diabetic at the beginning of the study.
As someone who has a very serious Pepsi addiction and a very serious fear of needles, I am mortified. So much so, in fact, that it cut my Pepsi consumption by...oh, probably 98 percent.
The other thing they mentioned was that soda is essentially ''liquid candy,'' and it alters the pH and acidity of you saliva. The acid of level of soda is something ludicrously close to that of battery acid, anyway. The effects are compounded when you drink soda like most people do...slowly, over the period of an hour or two. If you just chugged the stuff down and you were done with it, your mouth would return to normal in about 20 minutes. But for those who drink it slowly and drink a few (?) cans a day, the acid levels never return to normal. It's like dropping your teeth in battery acid and leaving them there all day.
Might explain my dental woes, too. My wisdom teeth are giving me fits.
The only thing left to do is to find a way to make water more appealing. Which is unfortunate, since I really don't LIKE water that much.
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