Guest guest Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Comments? Misty L. Trepke http://www..com Is A Soft Drink Like Battery Acid? Before you drink another soft drink or diet soft drink, please read the following article on wellness. Scientists have found that healthy people have body fluids that are slightly alkaline, 7.1 to 7.5 pH. Scientists and doctors have also found that over 150 degenerative diseases are linked to acidity, including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, gall stones, kidney stones, and many more. All diseases thrive in an acidic, oxygen poor environment. Keep in mind that a drop in every point on the pH scale is 10x more acidic than the previous number--i.e. from 7 to 6 is 10x, from 7 to 5 is 100x etc. From 7 to 2 is 100,000x more acidic, colas are in the approximate 2.5 pH range. Almost no soft drink is higher than 3.0. Diet soft drinks are the worst as they have the highest acid content. The best liquid to drink is clean water ( tap water YUCK! ). Almost everything we do including our life styles and the food we eat push us into the acidic range: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are all digested down to acids. Even metabolic functions and exercise create some acids (lactic acid). Body fluids range between 4.5 and 7.5 pH. Your blood must maintain an alkaline range of 7.35 to 7.45 pH. So even our natural functions produce acids, and if we do not get the proper minerals in the proper forms, our bodies will begin to degenerate. When you drink soda, the deterioration will be much faster. For more information on pH see our article on Blood Rouleau. Do you want wellness? Does this make sense to you? Over the long term the effects of soft drinks are devastating to the body. Acidity, sugars, and artificial flavors and sweeteners can shorten your life. It would take 32 glasses of alkaline water at an alkaline pH of 9 to neutralize the acid from one 12 oz. cola or soft drink. When you digest a soft drink, the body will use up reserves of its own stored alkaline buffers, mainly calcium from the bones to raise the body's alkalinity levels, especially to maintain proper blood alkaline pH levels. There are enough acids in one soft drink to kill you if you didn't possess a mechanism to neutralize them. But your mineral buffers can be used up. Lets stop and think about this for a minute. Ok I know that this is allot of information and it may seem a little different than what you thought before. What if a person changed their life style and removed soft drinks from their eating habits for just 1 month and it helped would that be worth the effort? Others have done just that and by removing soft drinks from their life and creating a better life style they started getting their health back. Heck I used to drink lots of soft drinks myself. Now I don't even like the taste of them. Lets get back to the information on soft drinks and how to improve your wellness. The reason it is so bad, is that soft drinks, like water and other liquids, pass very quickly through the stomach into the small intestine where it is quickly assimilated into the bloodstream through the openings in the villi in the walls of the intestines. They can also be absorbed right through the stomach's lining directly into the blood. Liquids do not stay in the digestive tract like solid food does. All liquids go into the bloodstream, is filtered through the liver and the kidneys, and what is not needed is sent to the bladder and urinated out. The liquids that you drink including soft drinks come in contact with virtually every cell in your body. When a substance is an acid, it means that there are a large number of positively charged hydrogen ions in it. These positively charged ions are lacking electrons and steal electrons from other atoms in the body which themselves become electrically unstable and seek other electrons from other atoms. Acids are free radicals and what you've just created is a chain reaction of electron stealing. The problem with this is that whenever an electron is torn from an atom a little spark is produced, and this is what damages cell membranes. It's called free radical damage and can be seen under a microscope in a live blood cell analysis. If you have enough minerals the body can stop the process. But when you use up the supply of available minerals to neutralize the acids, at that point you may get a very serious degenerative disease. Every soft drink that you consume will contribute to this acidity. Even without soda our bodies naturally produce acids, and minerals are needed in our diets to stop the deterioration process. Unfortunately, most of the food that we eat no longer contains the minerals that we need. This may be the reason for all the degenerative diseases that are so prevalent today. Work to have eating and drinking habits for wellness. Most degenerative diseases we call " Old-Age Diseases " like memory loss, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, and many more are actually life style diseases caused by acidosis, the lack of supplements, what acids we ingest, what nutrients we don't ingest, or toxins we don't properly eliminate. The way I see it, soft drinks are like drinking from a car battery. You create a low pH condition in your body and cause health problems by putting soft drinks in your body. Isn't it better to remove soda from your life style to live a better life. Please don't put soft drinks in your body. Make your eating and drinking habits for your wellness. Be well, Darryl Milligan www.progressive-wellness.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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