Are soft drinks really that bad for you?

[WildHorse]

Originally posted by: remagavon

Yeah I was wondering if you had any links handy. I'm not trying to be disagreeable, just wondering about the actual validity. There are a lot of 'experts' but also a lot of contradictory beliefs on many things.

Well some liks are in a few posts right above this one.

SO very true. What a controversial subject, full of big-money lobbiests, folk-beliefs, hooey, scientific announcements that get reversed by other studies later, and other turbulence. What to believe...hmmmm. Gotta take the best sources we are able to discern.

Lots of people chug soft drinks, and this behavior is passed down the generations as the 'normal' lifestyle. But it doesn't serve your healthfulness.

 

[OVERKILL]

soda = liquid candy :thumbsdown:

 

[MustangSVT]

if you consume alot of it for extended time.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
if you consume alot of it for extended time.

The reason most people consume alot of soda is because of high fructose corn syrup. Your body doesnt react to high fructose corn syrup. If they used real sugar in soda's, people wouldnt drink nearly as much because your body reacts to sucrose, and will tell you to stop, but will not do the same for fructose.