Considering that soft drinks are one of the most popular drinks to a lot of people all around the world, unfortunately, a lot of them love to drink it almost every day and may not live without it. Soda becomes addictive, preventing one from drinking what the body needs the most which is water. In the market, there is a infinite amount of choices with multiple varieties of flavors, different tastes, ranges from classic soda to diet soda. However, consumers do not recognize clearly the negative effect of soft drinks that have a high chance of eroding their health away. Some of these examples include dental erosion, energy intake, obesity and other health issues. Nowadays, people live a healthy life to avoid health problems, so taxes on soft …show more content…
Based on statistics, a can of classic coke contains 39 grams of sugar per serving. It is a huge amount of sugar that has been adapted into the system. Scientists started studies on the soft drink consumption and linked that amount of sugar in the soft drink which caused dental erosion, increase energy intake and related to obesity.
Generally, your dental hygiene becomes weakened when you lack the minerals that are needed. The higher the acidic level is within your consumption can be very brutal, it can make your teeth enamel softer and weaken your teeth strength. You end up lacking calcium which is supposed to make your bones stay strong. Soft drinks have the highest sugar and acid, yet lower the pH level compared to water. “It takes 32 glasses of water to neutralize a glass of cola” (Radomski, 40). Citric acid in cola makes a weakness of dental, changing the neutralization of saliva and destroys enamel surface as Ph.D. Manny explained the article Soft drinks and dental erosion, “Citric acid is the predominant acid in non- cola drinks and is especially erosive to teeth because it chelates calcium effectively” (Radomski, 41). If a kid drinks a can of soda every day, his enamel will be declining, stained teeth and cavities and plaque will start to build their teeth. Children’s teeth are new and weak, they must learn to take care of their teeth while they are young. Drinking a lot of soft drinks is a bad habit that most children have a hard time controlling. The oral
Sugar addiction is a problem that has been in our society for many years. In today's world this type of addiction is being composed into drinks. Sugary drinks are found everywhere from local stores, to in home refrigerators. Sodas, juices, and energy drinks, all fall under unhealthy remedies to thirst. Sugar addiction can only restrain us from accomplishing healthy goals in life. Sugary drinks can lead to harming one's body. Over the past few years, many cities and states have considered taxing sodas and other sugary beverages. Sugary drinks must be tax due to its unhealthy components and addiction.
The process of making soda starts with filtering water. Then they add sweetener and flavoring which is mixed and then added to the water. Then they cool the mixture. Carbon dioxide, CO2, is added to the mixture. This is what gives it its fizz. One of soda’s main components is fructose and glucose. Mixed together, these two sugars form another sugar called sucrose. Sucrose, C12H22O11, is comprised from carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms. Since carbon and oxygen make up carbon dioxide, this means that sucrose has carbon dioxide in it. With the carbon dioxide from the sucrose and the carbon dioxide from the last step of making soda, the soda is full of carbon dioxide. This is one of the reasons soda is bad for you. It contains too much carbon dioxide. Soda is bad because it can cause dehydration. Soda also has too much sugar. One can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar. Too much of soda can cause diabetes. Soda contains phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid does not let our bodies absorb calcium. This leads to our bones softening and to cavities. Soda has no nutrients, too. It doesn’t provide you with anything good for your
The impact sugary sodas have on our bodies is known by everybody. But this didn’t stop people consume large quantities of sugary beverages. This is what the change observed in the consumption of such drinks appears to be curious. In accordance with the report, the average American has cut down on soda consumption by 25 percent in the last 25 years.
According to the article of “Sugary Drinks”. New York City’s Board of Health passed a rule of banning super sized sodas in restaurants. This proves that they care about other people health besides themselves. This problem is that New York City’s Board might see or hear about people that are overweight, sickly , and might dissolve your teeth.
What causes soda to damage your teeth? Acids, dye, and sugar in soda can also harm your teeth, even if you drink diet soda it will be just as bad or worse than drinking regular soda. Teeth enamel hardens the outside of your teeth, protecting the dentin and pulp of the tooth from damage. Soda contains acids such as phosphate and citric acid that weaken the tooth enamel. However, non-cola drinks are less acidic but cause more enamel destruction than colas. Erosion from phosphoric acid affects the entire tooth, tooth erosion happens when acids wear away the enamel on teeth. Caramel dye yellows your teeth and weakened enamel makes it easier for teeth to become stained.Coke contains more than 9 teaspoons of sugar. As a result, it supports that soda does damage your
People reach for diet soda as a healthier alternative to regular soda, but as recent studies have shown, they are mistaken. Recent studies have shown that “diet soda can have the same effect on your tooth enamel as methamphetamine or crack cocaine use” (Diet Soda’s Effect on Teeth). They have done studies comparing drug addicts to soda drinkers and have found similar results to the effects of the substance on teeth. One study was published in the March/April 2013 issue of General Dentistry. The results of the study concluded that the erosion being the same on all the people was due to the fact that methamphetamine, cocaine, and soda are all highly acidic substances (Dental Erosion Due to Abuse). According to the article, “Soda’s Effect on our Teeth”, some scientists have come to suggest that drinking soda is just as harmful on your teeth as drinking battery fluid. Sugar is not the most harmful quality of soda, the phosphoric acid present in some sodas and the staining effect are much worse. The acid creates bacteria on our teeth and then that bacteria feeds on the sugar from the soda which just leads to an increase in tooth decay. Besides increasing the production of bacteria on our teeth, the phosphoric acid also increases teeth erosion. It can also lead to hypersensitivity in teeth. Drinking soda multiple times leads to multiple layers of sugars on your teeth that over time can cause teeth to yellow. If a person still wishes to drink soda, they should
Obesity can be caused by pointless calories. With the average soft drink containing about 300 empty calories in no wonder that the Public Health Experts often point to these high- calorie low nutritional drinks as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic (Bulletin). Drinking one or more can of soda a day can increase the pointless calories.Everybody knows that these drinks are high in calories (Alter, Kanigel). What people don’t realize is that these calories may be particularly effective at making people fat. Perhaps because they pass through the stomach more quickly than food (Alter, Kanigel). The average person needs about 2500 calories a day, so drinking soda can take up a lot of those calories. If the soda is taking up most of a person's calories, then they can not have anything else. Despite the fact that soda takes up pointless calories, soda also had a lot of sugar. Liquid sugar is a problem- but the type of sugar used in the majority of soft drinks may be making things worse (Alter, Kanigel). The sugar in soda is very harmful to the body. Drinking soda not only contributes to making people fat, but it also stresses the body’s ability to process sugar (Alter, Kanigel). People have now replaced healthy drinks with unhealthy drinks like soda. In the 1950’s, children drank 3 cups of milk for every 1 cup of sugary drink (Alter, Kanigel). Today that ratio is reversed: 3 cups of sugary drink to every 1
Soda contains Phosphoric acid, which interferes with the bodies ability to absorb calcium and can lead to osteoporosis, cavities and bone softening. For steric acid also interact with stomach acid, slowing digestion and blocking nutrient absorption, which then leads to obesity. The xx obesity has on your body is astronomical. For example, you could have hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnea, joint problems, cancer, stroke, liver and gallbladder disease, gynecological problems. “osteoporosis & sodas (softDrinks): phosphoric acid and other causes.” WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 18 march. 2018.)
If you drink soda every day you're 26%more likely than a person who drinks,soda every now and then to get type 2 diabetes. For most people that drink soda ,it's a daily habit. Even if it’s only one soda every day, it's still bad for you. Over time, if you have only one sugary drink per day you increase your chances of having a heart attack by 20%.Further studies came out with results that say that you could have up to a 40% increase in those chances. There have been extremely clear links established between soft drink intake and increased weight and the decrease of the consumption of milk,calcium,and,other
Soda is one of the unhealthiest drinks that can significantly damage your health. The sugary carbonated drinks contain a high level of caffeine, sugar and chemicals which have negative effects on your body. Only several minutes after drinking soda, your sugar levels and your blood pressure notably increase, which is very damaging to your health. Within just one hour of consuming this drink, your body develops a sugar crash, which leads to mental fogginess, fatigue, and change in your mood. Here are some of the health conditions that can be caused by consuming soda.
People who drink 3 or more glasses of soda each day have 62% more tooth decay, fillings and tooth loss than others. This means that soda has a huge effect on your teeth. We didn’t always have a tooth brush to keep our teeth clean. But now thanks to dental advancements we do. Teeth have been the same way since the human race has started.even when it's unflavored, fizzy water contains an acid—carbonic acid—that gives it its bubbles. That acidity can gradually wear away tooth enamel. Fizzy water is also in soda meaning that the carbonation in the soda wears away the tooth enamel.The bacteria contained in the plaque feeds on the sugar in foods you eat or drink. Acids are created in about 20 seconds and last for about 30 minutes. Those acids can
Drinking a lot of soda pop can affect the body in so many different ways that end up hurting your body. In Leung’s article she talks about how drinking to much pop can affect your cells as you get older (Leung, 2014). As you get older the carbonation from the pop can make the cells in the body weaker and more vulnerable to diseases or sicknesses like cancer. Because the cells are weaker, they cannot fight the diseases as well. Also, in Stanbrooks article he talks about how when people drink to much pop there sugar level is so high that they can end up with diseases like obesity (Stanbrook,2013). There are people in the Untied States who buy 24 oz - 32 oz cups of pop. That is way to much sugar for the body to handle and that is when we have
The producers of the soft drinks continue to face difficulty in the marketplace partly due to factors such as economic recession, the change consumer preference, cost of raw material, public policies over the past decade (Graph 2). Consumer are more health concerned as critics have pointed that the soda industry is a contributing factor to the US obesity epidemic (Reuters) . Thus, the consumer are switching to healthier substitutes such as flavored water and sports drinks. In the United State the CSD Industry which consists three segments regular carbonated soft drinks, diet
Starbucks is a major reason why things have changed for Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co, they have emerged in the market with balancing their menu with gourmet, coffee beverages that offer sweet and sugary options for their customers. In 2016, the soft drink industry is in the middle of the growing policy debate in the United States regarding taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages. Therefore, it hasn’t been a great year for Coca-Cola, Pepsi Co, and Dr. Pepper Snapple due to the public’s concern on the health issues of sugary sodas. The health problems with the sugar content in soft drinks have increased political pressures, as well as slowed the growth of these giant beverage companies.
In recent decades, uptake of sugar-sweetened drinks has increased around the globe. For instance, consume in Mexico doubled between 1999 and 2006 across all age groups. (Kelly D. Brownell,et al.,2009) In 2014, Mexico’s government implemented a tax of one peso per litre(10% tax)on sugar-sweetened drinks has resulted in a 12% reduction in sales. (M Arantxa Colchero,et al.,2016) This discovery have significant implications for the way to reduce negative externalities and policy decisions. This report presents the analysis of taxing on sugary drinks and the other possible methods to deal with access consumption.