5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Drinking Soda

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 Five Reasons Why Soda is Bad For You

1. Regular consumption of soda can lead to many different medical conditions including but not limited to

• Heart Disease
• Cancers
• Osteoporosis
• Muscle Loss
• Weight Gain
• Accelerated aging and many more

2.  One can of Soda can have up to 200 calories. Some people consume up to 10 cans a day and that's possibly 2000 calories a day just from your liquids!! Considering 2000 calories a day is recommended for women and 2500 calories is recommended for men then that leaves little to no room in your daily allowance for food. Cutting soda out of your diet for water will be beneficial for weight loss.

3. Soda whether diet or regular is linked to accelerated aging. Many sodas contain phosphorates or phosphoric acid. This is a weak acid used to improve the shelf life of sodas and give them a tangy taste and flavor. Too much phosphoric acid could even cause accelerated aging. A journal that was published in the FASEB journal in 2010 found that the abundant and excessive levels of phosphate found in sodas caused lab rats to die on average 5 weeks earlier than the rats whose diet had much more normal phosphate levels. Soda manufacturers have also been increasing the levels of phosphoric acid in their products so there's another reason to give the soda habit a kick.

4. Soda cans are made out of Aluminium and are lined with a chemical to prevent the soda acid and the can reacting. The chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) is linked with infertility, obesity and reproductive cancer. Not exactly the kind of chemical you want in your body.

5. The artificial sweeteners used in soda do not break down in our bodies (perhaps natures way of saying that we shouldn't be taking them into our body) and water treatment facilities cannot filter them out of the water. These sweeteners start in our bodies and come out when we go to the toilet, then they end up in our water supplies and waterways and are thought to adversely affect sea life it comes into contact with.