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Soft Drinks: A Safe Refreshment – (02-22-01)

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Soft Drinks: A Safe Refreshment

Excuse me, but is this author living in a cave?? This is a letter to the editor in regards to a recent article pointing to an increase in fractures in children with higher intakes of carbonated soft drinks. The author goes on to suggest that “Soft drinks serve to quench thirst and provide a safe and pleasant source of liquid needed by the human body to maintain proper hydration. Soft drinks can compliment many types of food, which when combined form a proper diet.” What planet is this guy from? How about the acidity of many carbonated beverages, the total lack of nutritive value, the presence of high fructose corn syrup, the numerous food colorings and flavorings and the caffeine content?? It’s just a good thing that this doctor’s myopic view did not make it to the evening news…

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Fractures, calcium, and the modern diet – (11-08-01)

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Fractures, calcium, and the modern diet

WOW!! How refreshing for an article in a major medical journal to cut through the PR from the dairy industry and lay some truths bare. Osteoporosis is NOT a disease of calcium deficiency. It is a result of a Westernized lifestyle. From a physiological viewpoint, the body wants to keep us alive for right now and that involves keeping pH and calcium levels of the blood in very tight levels. When a more acid-producing diet is eaten (i.e. more animal protein based) the body buffers with bicarbonate and calcium, causing the calcium levels in the blood to fall. The blood needs to get levels back to keep us alive for right now and where is the best source of calcium in the body?? Bone. Years of this pattern weakens the structure of bone.

AJCN — Abstracts: Hegsted 74 (5): 571

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