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A new health scare has errupted over softdrinks amid evidence they may cause serious damage.Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in fizzy drinks has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.
The findings could have serious consecquenses for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who consume fizzy drinks. They will also intensify the controversy about food additives, which have been linked to hyperactivity in children.Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as SODIUM BENZOATE, a preservative used for decades by the 74bn pound global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium Benzoate derives from Benzoic Acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but it is used large quantities to prevent molds in soft drinks. It is also added to pickles and sauces.
Sodium benzoate has already been the subject of concern about because when mixed with the additive Vit. C in soft drinks, it causes Benzene, a carcinogenic substance. A Food Standard Agency survey of Benzene in drinks found high levels in four brands which were removed from sale. Prof. Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology, and biotechnology tested the impact of Sodium Benzoate on living yeast cells in his labaorator, what he found, alarmed him, benzoate was damaging an important area of DNA in the power station of cells known as mitochondria.
The Professor advised the parents to think carefully about buying drinks with preservatives until the quantities of products were proved safe for new tests.
Source: The Gulf Times (about a years ago)
while cooking..tenderizes it and will carmelize in the bottom of the pan..really good on a ham..oops, sorry...
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
your so right about coke. One thing it is good for is cleaning your drains. Try it, it works wonders!!
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we drink the same drink...I think we need to do a study ourselves of how much rum it takes to detox diet coke...
whaddya say??
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I agree with u smoke, these karwa bus drivers dont know how to drive :/...
It's always the small things that make big differences.
dilute my diet cola.....with rum
Thank God I stopped drinkin fizzy stuffs ...
mm your avatar's gud lookin...
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will you all please stop bad mouthing coke...next you'll say smoking is bad for health too...grrrrrr
Where there is Fire...There is Coke. Where there is Rum..There is Smoke - Sir Smoke-a-Lot
put a piece of raw meat into a glass and pour coke over it..check it the next morning...its almost all dissolved...just think what it does to your digestive system.
Sodas also leach the calcium out of your bones...they are having issues with children that drink a lot of sodas, having brittle bones. Liek anything else, moderation in all things. I prefer fresh juices or bottled water to sodas..much better for you and they taste wonderful.
The only way I drink soft drinks is with rum...I think it probably detoxifies it...ahem...
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Many many years ago when I went to school we put an old penny in a glass of coke, (the science teacher wanted to show how dangerous coke was) and believe it or not after two days lying in the coke that penny was bright and shiney and looked like new, imagine what it does to the body.
Eat right, stay healthy, die anyway !!!
Soft drinks are terrible. Years ago, I was guzzling bottles of them daily at work and buying the jumbo bottles to take home. One day I was with a friend and wanted to buy a couple of soft drinks for us. He politely refused, saying that he worked in one of the soft drink factories and none of the employees in the factory ever drank a drop of the stuff they were chruning out ! He explained what went into it and that was enough for me. I switched over to drinking water and fresh fruit juices and said good bye to a variety of stomach related complaints ever since !
I can say that anything we take is dangerous if we consume much. So there is no better than "EAT MODERATELY' "DRINK SUEY-SUEY' HE HE!
"There's nothing we can do to change the past, if it teaches you a lesson profit from it then, forget it."
Researchers are always coming out with something or another to scare us its like they have nothing better to do with their time. I say eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you might get hit by a bus. :)
Where there is Fire...There is Coke. Where there is Rum..There is Smoke - Sir Smoke-a-Lot
Everything is dangerous to us - and eventually we will all die from something.
I saw a research like this a few years ago, it was really scary.. until I looked how many liters of Softdrinks you had to drink every day to become sick...
how can we stop to drinking softdrinks????????//
I suspect even the orange juices in the tetra because, benzoate it says plus Vit.C equals benzene...
"There's nothing we can do to change the past, if it teaches you a lesson profit from it then, forget it."
Professor Peter Piper...? I thought it was a joke but here
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/caution-some-soft-drinks-may-seriously-harm-your-health-450593.html
I'm definately going to stay away from the stuff knowing this.
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just dont step out in summer you will get skin cancer too.
BS all crap.
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