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Read Dr. Elena Krasnov's Weekly Column in the Health & Fitness section of the 24 Hours Magazine. Look for new articles every week!

Thursday, June 08, 2006

More reasons to avoid soda pop

Continuation from last week -- reasons to avoid soft drinks:

5. Soft drinks severely interfere with digestion.
   Caffeine and high amounts of sugar virtually shut down the digestive process. That means your body is essentially taking in no nutrients from the food you may have just eaten, or even eaten hours earlier.
6. Diet soft drinks contain aspartame, which has been linked to depression, insomnia, neurological disease and a plethora of other illness.
7. Soft drinks are extremely acidic, so much so that they can eat through the liner of an aluminum can and leach aluminum from the can if it sits on the shelf too long. Alzheimer patients who have been autopsied all have high levels of aluminum in their brains. Heavy metals in the body can lead to many neurological and other diseases.
8. Another word on acidity: The human body naturally exists at a pH of about 7.0. Soft drinks have a pH of about 2.5, which means you are putting something into your body that is hundred of thousands of times more acidic that your body is! Diseases flourish in an acidic environment. Soft drinks and other acidic food deposit acid waste in the body which accumulates over time in the joints and around the organs. For example, the Body pH of cancer or arthritis patients is always low. The sicker the person, the lower the Body pH.
9. Don't even think of taking a sip of a soft drink when you are sick with a cold, flu or something worse. It will only make it that much harder for your body to fight the illness.
10. The high amounts of sugar in soft drinks cause your pancreas to produce an abundance of insulin, which leads to a "sugar crash." Chronic elevation and depletion of sugar and insulin can lead to diabetes and other imbalance related diseases. This is particularly disruptive to growing children which can lead to life-long health problems.

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Dr. Elena Krasnov is a registered Naturopathic Doctor and Clinic Director of the Toronto Naturopathic Clinic. Submit your questions online at 24hrs.ca

Co-written by Miranda Tallon-Malisani