A Problem With Soft Drinks

Some have phosphoric acid, which leaches calcium from your bones. Not all soft drinks have phosphoric acid:

In a survey designed to measure the amount of phosphoric acid in twenty different soft drinks, the following were found to contain the highest amounts: Tab, Coke, Diet Coke, caffeine-free Coke, and Mr. Pibb. The formulas may have been changed for the better since this survey was conducted. . . . Pepsi Free, Diet Pepsi Free, Like Cola, 7-Up, and Mountain Dew had no phosphoric acid.

Female Fertility and the Body-Fat Connection (2004) by Rose Frisch, an excellent book, tells about a 25-year-old college tennis player nicknamed Miss Tab because she drank 8-10 bottles of Tab a day.

When her bone mass was measured, her tennis arm was normal for a 25-year-old woman (it should have been a greater mass from the exercise) and her other arm had the bone mass of a 70-year-old woman.

I started drinking Diet Coke a week ago. Oops. I will switch to Diet Pepsi. Eventually I will learn the Chinese for phosphoric acid.

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