#129: Are you a soda drinker? think again

I used to drink soda or soft drink everyday. I couldn't eat without soda on the table. It's certainly refreshing specially if it's ice cold. But that was three years ago. Since then I have taken out soda in my grocery list.

So what wrong with soda? Here's a good article on that.

Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and often food additives such as artificial coloring, flavoring, and preservatives.

A lot of research has found that consumption of soft drinks in high quantity, especially by children, is responsible for many health problems that include tooth decay, nutritional depletion, obesity, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease.

 What if you just drink diet soda? Well it's just as worse:

Diet soda is filled with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin. These artificial sweeteners pose a threat to your health. Saccharin, for instance, has been found to be carcinogenic, and studies have found that it produced bladder cancer in rats.

  So what the best thing to drink? Ever hear of water. Yes the good old water is your best bet. In our household we drink around 30 gallons of water each week. I know because I go to the water refilling station every to days to fill up my container. Another alternative is to drink tea (green tea is a favorite) or low sugar juice drink.

So next time you chug-a-lug your soda, think again.