Soft DrinksDanger Zone

“One Mexican non-veg pizza, a pack of French fries and a coke,” isn’t this a familiar phrase to all of us at restaurants. How many times do we go home tired and worn out by the day’s stress, open the refrigerator and help ourselves with a Pepsi? Or stop the car on a hot day to enjoy a ‘cold drink’?

Cold drinks or soft drinks are a passion to most of us, especially the smashing teenagers, but unfortunately it is the most dangerous liquid or I can call it slow poison which is sliding inside your digestive system to spoil it.

These crazy drinks or so called Pepsi, advertised by Bollywood star Sharukh saying ‘Yeh dil mange more’ or Coca-Cola recommended by Amir Khan or Aishwarya telling ‘Life ho to aise Coca-Cola enjoy’ or similar Mirinda , Thumbs up, Sprite, Fanta etc… are not the most delicious drinks to our bones & teeth (calcium related parts).

Soft drinks are sweetened carbonated water with different flavours. It’s just carbon! This is also mixed with soda water to encourage the quality of the flavour. This is not at all a healthy drink for our body. Chemicals mixed like this are not fit for consumption, but for other better purposes.
Benefits of Soft Drinks

1. To clean the toilet:
If your toilet is dirty & looks untidy with stains and marks, here I suggest you a good idea!!! Pour a tin of Coca-Cola & leave it for 20mins. Flush your toilet and it appears to be crystal clear and clean as ever.

2. Removes grease:
Your new dress has a patch of grease? Did you try all the methods of washing? Well, try this one. Soak your dress with detergent powder and pour a tin of Coca-Cola in that, leave it for 20 minutes, wash it as usual and your dress appears to be brand new.

3. Other cleaning purposes:
Is your show case glass, TV screen, fridge, cooking vessels, table, chairs or even your floor pale dull and untidy? Take no tensions and don’t worry at all!! You may try a tin of coke and zoom!!! You can witness the magic.

Now let us come back to the demerits, What if we drink this? Does it clean our digestive ystem too…? Yes!!! But, only once in a while. Soft drinks lead to cavities and later on to gum cancer. It also dissolves bones when consumed in excess. Doctors have also witnessed a case in which a m a n ’ s r i b c a g e w a s transplanted. I agree that present medical system is advanced, even dangerous HIV is finding its way to cure but why should we invite diseases? For fun?

Facts:
1) A man drank 18 bottles of Pepsi continuously and died on the spot.
2) Majority of the cancer patients are ex-soft drink addicted people. pH of the soft drinks is dangerously acidic.
4) Soft drinks are highly calorific, not a good diet. So stay away from soft drinks and drink natural fresh fruit juice or water from the good earth to quench your thirst, ‘pure and perfect’, advertised and strongly recommended.

                                                                                                                                                  Vibha Luvenia
                                                                                                                                                  B.Sc. Biotechnology