I have been avoiding soda pop because of the negative effects to bone from the caffeine and phophoric acid. My question is, are all "sodas" bad for the bones? It would be a lot easier for me to give up my colas and beloved Mountain Dew (now there's a scary concoction) if I could have a club soda or sparkling mineral water instead.
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Thirsty in Maine
Oriole
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Hi Oriole!
Being someone with osteopenia, I found your question very interesting. I am not a big soda pop drinker myself, but I did a search on google, and found several articles on the osteo and soda pop connection. I am including the link to the page of results here for you.
I think the problem is that people who drink large amounts of pop may not be drinking enough milk, so when they are thirsty, they go for the pop rather than a glass of milk, which we all know would be better for the ole bones. Thats what I gather from the reading I did on some web sites anyway.
Hugs
Maria
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See, it's how science works. They do large studies with questionnaires and find a statistical correlation between women with osteoporosis and drinking soft drinks. And worse that teenagers have weaker bones than they should have, so they have less to lose.
My understanding is that it's all three things.
One is, like Maria says, that we are all drinking soft drinks and not drinking drinks with more calcium aka milk. There was a big study just done that backs up that a lot of the problem is simply that we aren't drinking milk.
But the second theory has smaller studies backing it up too--that quite a few of the fizzy soft drinks are made with phosphoric acid, which does create an imbalance with calcium. You need some, but they should be roughly equal and if phosphorus and calcium aren't equal, then the phosphorus actually removes what calcium there is in the blood stream and binds with it. But it's only some soft drinks that use this process.
The third is that caffeine itself is bad for bones, which in itself is documented.
So, I think the answer is yes, a different soft drink that has no caffeine and does not list anything that sounds like
phospho--
phosporic acid in particular, on the label might be ok if you're getting calcium other ways. I've been poking around and most mineral waters seem to be a different process of fizzing.
It gets darn hard to do the right thing!
Trish
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Interesting, very interesting. I am down to one a day now thanks to God's help and a week from today I will have just finished my last "every day one".
I drank some milk and even less water and mostly Pop. Had them 3-4 times a DAY. I have often said it is a good thing they did not make you drunk or I would have serious problems. I would be interested in knowing if Gingerale or a "Shirley Temple" were better for you though.
That would give me some choice in a restaurant setting should I CHOOSE to have one.
Right now I am not at a point in my life where I can allow that yet. I am making progress but am fighting an addiction. Thank you for posting about this-- I had no clue.
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