What soda does to your body

A great, eye-opening article. Check it out.

This is why I haven't drank soda in years. I don't miss it one bit!

While I will agree with many of the reasons not to drink soda, I really do wish that doctors (or "doctor" in this case?) would run their articles by a chemist before publishing them.  Carbonation has NOTHING to do with phosphoric acid content.  In fact, root beer (which is carbonated) has no phosphoric acid at all.  Fact checking would be nice.

Original Post by susiecue:

While I will agree with many of the reasons not to drink soda, I really do wish that doctors (or "doctor" in this case?) would run their articles by a chemist before publishing them.  Carbonation has NOTHING to do with phosphoric acid content.  In fact, root beer (which is carbonated) has no phosphoric acid at all.  Fact checking would be nice.

ditto

I've heard all of those reasons before. The main one I notice is when I don't drink soda I don't eat as much. I was reading that anything with a high sugar content elivates your sugar rapidly so your body produces insulin to counteract it but it's a bit behind so you wind up with too much insulin then your body craves sugar to balance insulin levels. It's a nasty cycle.

Most interesting thing about the Yahoo article was the difference between regular tea and herbal teas.

Original Post by susiecue:

While I will agree with many of the reasons not to drink soda, I really do wish that doctors (or "doctor" in this case?) would run their articles by a chemist before publishing them.  Carbonation has NOTHING to do with phosphoric acid content.  In fact, root beer (which is carbonated) has no phosphoric acid at all.  Fact checking would be nice.

And don't forget the famous "one study found" that always shows up when the author has no clue what he is talking about but wants to show some authority. Funny how these "one studies" aren't referenced so that we can't scrutinize the research and conclusions. Not to mention that "one study" proves nothing in science since support for a theory is a progressive process requiring repeatability by more than one study and more than one team of researchers.