Cola Effects on Your Health

The most toxic commercial beverages that people consume (i.e. cola beverages and other soft drinks) are made from distilled water. Studies have consistently shown that heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) lose huge amounts of calcium, magnesium, and other trace minerals into their urine. The more mineral loss, the greater the risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.

Soft drinks are extremely acidic, so much so that they can eat through the lining of an aluminum can and leach aluminum ions from the can if it sits on the shelf too long.  Autopsies of Alzheimer patients have revealed high levels of aluminum in their brains.  Heavy metals in the brain can lead to many neurological and psychiatric diseases.  The human body is healthiest at a pH of about 7.0.  Soft drinks have a pH of approximately 2.5, which means you are putting something into your body that is approximately 50,000 times more acidic than your body ought to be.  It is estimated that it takes 32 glasses of 7.0 pH water to neutralize the acid from one glass of soda.  Soft drinks can remove rust from a car bumper of other metal surfaces.  Imagine what it's doing to your digestive tract as well as the rest of your body.  All diseases flourish in an acidic environment.

There is a correlation between the consumption of soft water (distilled water is extremely soft and therefore acidic) and the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Cells, tissues, and organs do not like to be dipped in acid and will do anything to buffer this acidity, including the removal of alkaline minerals (calcium) from the skeleton and the manufacture of bicarbonate in the blood. Assisting in this process of mineral depletion is the addition of phosphoric acid in soda, which binds to calcium and other minerals.  The longer one drinks distilled water and/or soda, the more likely the development of mineral deficiencies and an overacid state. People who consume distilled water and/or soda exclusively, eventually develop multiple mineral deficiencies.

The high amounts of sugar in soft drinks causes the pancreas to produce an abundance of insulin, which leads to a "sugar crash."  Chronic elevation and depletion of sugar and insulin levels in the body can lead to diabetes and other hormonal imbalances.  This is particularly disruptive to growing children and can lead to lifelong health problems.

Diet soft drinks contain Aspartame, which has been linked to depression, insomnia, neurological disease and a plethora of other illnesses.  The FDA has received more than 10,000 consumer complaints about Aspartame.  This accounts for 80% of all complaints concerning food additives.

Disease and early death is more likely to be seen with the long term drinking of distilled water and soft drinks made from it.