A couple of reasons to stop drinking sodas. Want to know more? Keep reading.

If drinking sodas is one of your little pleasures you should stop and consider what you are drinking. For those of you that don’t know what a soda is, it is essentially carbonated water with a sweetener and a flavour agent among other ingredients. Sodas have been around for a long time and have also changed in the process. How? Well you’ll just have to move on to the next paragraph to find out.

In the olden days, sodas were sweetened with natural sugar cane which is better for health than the artificial sweeteners and synthetic additives. One major drawback is that the High Fructose Corn Syrup or HCFS that is used in most soft drinks and sodas today is derived from corn. This is a drawback because most of the corn (at least in the US if not in the UK and US) is in fact genetically modified and so the drinks are likely full of GMO’s. GMO’s are devoid of nutrition and are full of pesticides and herbicides which are harmful – the glyphosate in Roundup for example increases the risk of cancer even in the parts per billion range.

Toxins are another reason to stop drinking sodas. Whether your soft drink is in a plastic bottle or aluminium can, it is likely to be made with or coated in Bisphenol-A or BPA. This in itself causes an array of health problems and ailments. Next, many sodas are made with low quality, unfiltered tap water which contains industrial waste, pharmaceutical drugs and other chemicals such as arsenic and bromate. Even the HCFS sweetener is laced with chemical residues including mercury, a harmful chemical that damages your brain. You can find more on this link: http://wakeup-world.com/2013/08/20/5-good-reasons-to-stop-drinking-soda-immediately/

I personally find this shocking mainly because I didn’t realize there would be so many chemicals in sodas and soft drinks. I also think it’s outrageous that so many things are going into our food and drink without us even knowing about it. Don’t hesitate to comment your thoughts and feelings on this subject. Also feel free to share this post with others if you like.