Why Soft Drinks Suck! (Part 2)

Soft drinks suck for three main reasons: 1) Phosphoric Acid, which has a pH of just over 2, 2) Diet sodas have aspartame (Nutrasweet), which metabolizes into Vitamin C (not bad), methyl alcohol (causes retinal damage, blindness, and other nerve damage), and formaldehyde (which preserves animal specimens, but also causes cancer), 3) Corn Syrup (which causes inflammation and, oddly, low blood sugar). Soft drinks suck.

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[75SilentWarrior]

Soda won't clean off corroded battery posts because that is an acid as well.

[TheLogicJunkie]

TRY it, since you don't believe me.

[NWOSupporter2012]

High Fructose Corn syrup,and Corn syrup makes you fat.More fat people, the more the eat.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Actually, fructose -- especially HIGH fructose -- is much harder for the body to metabolise than the higher-glucose content found in just plain corn sugar.

[atheoexistentialist]

I enjoyed the video a lot. But you look just as unhealthy as the rest of North America. So either you don't live a completely healthy lifestyle (like most of us) or the healthy lifestyle you are possibly living is not a very effective one. This isn't meant to be an ad hominem attack against you, as I like your videos. Sorry for the poor punctuation.

[TheLogicJunkie]

True, I look like hell in this video. And the reason I give is that I was living in the last of my three years of miserable, dank hellishness in the Pacific Northwest.

I have recently moved from there, back to the east coast, where it is much more akin to my natural way of being. My mood and body are already starting to change back to a state of prior health.

[Remus0387]

repeated myself there but my point is i believe in moderation, drinking soft drinks occasionally would be best to not get fat, increase risk at diabetes and other health issues. I will preface this saying i myself need to practice this, i'm not in great health but neither i am woefully ill just someone who enjoys the fizzy stuff but knows too much can be a bad thing. Clearly you have no love for it whatsoever, fair enough but i dont think i could stop drinking them for all my life but i know

[Remus0387]

Soft drinks by nature are sweet, sugary beverages which contain acids and chemicals which arent good for you, diet sodas also have chemicals which can play havoc with your health as well. Sugar free drinks are probably the best, but i'm sure there's issue with them as well. Do drinking softies in large quanities bad, yes i'm pretty sure people know that, but seeing all the stuff that goes in them also shows why there bad. Saying that i cant in all honesty say soft drinks suck, i do like them.

[Remus0387]

Soft Drinks by nature are sweet, sugary beverages which have acids and chemicals in them which are probably not the best for you. Diet and Sugar free sodas also have chemicals that can cause health concerns for you. Do Soft Drinks suck, in all honesty can't say that, i happen to like soft drink i know drunk in large quanities, of course it's bad, alot of the mass produced softies have all that acidic chemicals that can eat away at your teeth and give you diabetes, obesity and kindey disease.

[andrewh817]

The idea that stopped me from drinking soda was that I realized I wouldn't want to take 42 grams of sugar in spoonfuls and drink 8 fl oz of water, but I was essentially doing that by drinking soda.... that and the last time I drank soda, it was like I could feel my teeth dissolving. It is very interesting to hear the science behind what makes it so bad though.

[soakless]

Screw the medical mafia!

[mandaJt]

Have you ever seen the movie, Fat head? It's amazing. You should watch it if you haven't already. He talks about this type of thing - your references to sugar and insulin.

[lostwookie]

@atheoexistentialist  That's not fair... there are a lot of good looking people consuming poison... He looks fine!