Soft Drink Labels

Did you know that the average American drinks 192 gallons of liquid per year? This equals about 3.7 gallons a week or 2 liters per day, and soft drinks on average 28% of this amount. According to Beverage Marketing reports, "Soft drinks are the main source of calories in the American diet, providing 7-9% of calories.

Look at these alarming statistics from the National Soft Drink Association (NSDA), "Adolescents 13 percent of their calories from soft drinks and non-carbonated" and "the consumption of soft drinks is now over 600 servings of 12 ounces ( 12 ounces) per person per year. Since 1978, consumption of soda in the United States has tripled for boys and doubled for girls. "

Author and nutritionist, Dr. Judith Valentine, writes that this phenomenon is rightly called, "drinking problem other American." Valentine warns: "Even drinking] [as little as one or two sodas a day is undoubtedly connected to a multitude of diseases. The risks most commonly associated with health are obesity, diabetes and other disorders of blood sugar, tooth decay, osteoporosis and bone fractures, nutritional deficiencies, heart disease, addictions and eating disorders power, dysfunctional neurotransmitters chemical sweeteners, and neurological and adrenal excessive caffeine.

You should know that carbonated beverages are harmful to health and well-being lie in two camps - the dangers of drink ingredients themselves, and the dangers resulting from the loss of healthy drinks, they push the Food --- namely milk and water.

Do you know that during 1977-78, boys drank twice as much milk as soft drinks and the girls drank 50% more milk than soft drinks, but in 1994-1996, the boys and girls were drinking twice as much sodium than milk? This alarming decline in the results of milk consumption in a lower intake of vitamins and minerals, and many report links soft drink consumption to an increase in osteoporosis and bone fractures. After conducting their own research, Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine warned in June 2000, "... The national interest and alarm about the health impact of soft drink consumption among adolescents is supported by the findings of this study ".

Not only can you develop health problems if you ignore the milk for soft drinks, but if you drink water instead of soda, you may encounter the body's systems out of balance, dehydration, weight gain, constipation, lack concentration, kidney stones, urinary infections, and even the poor of the skin. You need at least 2 liters of pure water per day for proper organ function, proper absorption of vitamins, and efficient system activity of the body. Every system in your body including your brain, depends on water to function.

Would you choose a glass labeled "Witches Brew" or "liquid candy"? Well, health experts have labeled soft drinks with names that are strong because they contain ingredients that contribute significantly to poor health.

Even if you can be relieved that corn syrup high fructose replaced most maligned as sugar, I must say that the syrup has its own health hazards. It contributes to poor collagen, copper deficiency, and problems similar to those of alcoholic liver of animals on a diet rich in fructose. In fact, Dr. Charles Best, the discoverer of insulin, claims that teenagers who consume too many soft drinks have cirrhosis of the liver similar to what develops in chronic alcoholics.

I'm sure you know that caffeine provides no food, but did you know that can stimulate the adrenal glands and can cause adrenal exhaustion, especially in children? It blocks the receptor sites in the central nervous system, and with saccharin, caramel coloring, has a depressant action in the brain, the heart.