According to a new report, soda is bad for us! I am almost as shocked as when I read that Lindsay crashed her car after drunk-driving.
Unfortunately, I doubt that reading this article will cause a sudden 180 in, dare I say, most of us who indulge, even though a more health-conscious society would probably take the purported/reported information to heart. I mean, telling the public they may risk liver cirrhosis and Parkinson's by drinking soda should shock them into change! Nevermind all the other ingestibles that can cause these diseases.
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Hahaha. I found that article genuinely hilarious. While I don't know the exact mechanism of reactions that cause benzene to form when in solution with Ascorbic acid, it shouldn't be shocking that a form of benzene couldn't be converted back into its base form.
Nevermind the fact that excessive caffeine intake wreaks havoc on your skeletal structures by causing your body to remove calcium deposits from them. Excessive sodium intake will also start to cause sodium to replace the calcium in bones, which is equally bad for you.
I think everyone should realize that everything we ingest or rub on our skin has the potential to cause cancer or any number of other diseases and disorders. Even that delicious porterhouse I ate for dinner about 4 and a half hours ago has the potential to give me the fun disease known as colon cancer, but that's certainly not going to stop me from enjoying it. The fact that motor oil is known to be carcinogenic in lab animals isn't going to stop me from changing my oil, either. We live in a society of fear mongering, complete with overblown risks. For example, everyone warned me about the "serious risks" of taking accutane (isotretinoin) but apparently no one reads the "drug information" pamphlets that come with every prescription that shows said side effects occur in less than one-tenth of one percent of patients. Not high enough to worry about, let alone start spreading fear about...
Anyway, this was far too long...
Welcome to how the media works. They find a study (probably one they don't understand all that much) eschew checking the science and then report and sensationalize the perhaps dubious findings. It's a method of selling newspapers or gathering eyeballs and little else.
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