SOFT DRINKS – SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARD?

Sometime back it was pesticides in the soft drinks, and now it is the research findings (reported in the newspapers) that it can cause severe damage to DNA in the cells. Let us see what the soft drink like Coke or Pepsi contains:

Sugar – 10.2 gm per 100 gm of the drink, Preservatives, Stabilizers, Caffeine and added flavours? One hundred milliliter of a cold drink (half a glass), say 100 ml of coke contains 40.4 Kcal of energy. The daily requirement of healthy human is around 2 Kcal. Half a glass of coke contains 20 times higher amount of calories than required. Ultimately, the human system will not be able to utilize so much sugar and the percentage of diabetics in the country will be multiplied. The label on the bottles also indicates the presence of a well- known addictive drug Caffeine.

Now let us see the repercussions of drinking of the soft drinks:

1. Adults and even children do not need so many calories of energy. Obesity may be the outcome of such calorie intakes
2. The DNA damage can ultimately result in Cancer or cause Parkinson’s or Liver Cirrhosis (as reported )
3. Sodium benzoate is used as a preservative. Vitamin C is one of the components used in some of the soft drinks. The two chemicals react to form Benzene, which is a known carcinogenic compound.
4. Caffeine is an addictive drug. Children get addicted to the soft drinks probably due to this component in the soft drink.

Now make sure that your dear ones are not overexposed to these drinks.