More Bad News On Soda

 Low Down On Soda

A few cans of soda today in the young can be damaging when they are consumed during the peak bone-building years of childhood and adolescence. The girls who drank cola were about five times more likely to suffer bone fractures than girls who didn’t consume soda pop.

A big question is what happens when these soft-drinking youth  athletes become young to middle-aged adults? They may  have a higher rates of osteoporosis, sedentary living and obesity. Soda drinking is harmful to the long term health of our children.

 Your youth athletes shouldn’t be drinking soda PERIOD. The HFCS and all the other previously mentioned reasons should be enough to say no to soda.

Soda Causing Nutritional Deficiencies in Children

Children and adolescents who drink soda may be depriving themselves of several important vitamins and minerals, results of a new survey suggest.The researchers note that soda consumption among children and adolescents rose 41% between 1989-1991 and 1994-1995, mostly displacing milk and juice, the leading sources of many vitamins and minerals in the American diet.The results are based on data from more than 4,000 children aged 2 to 17 years.Among children aged 2 to 5: 75% drank milk 53% drank juice 34% drank soda In those aged 12 to 17: 63% of boy and 49% of girls drank milk 34% drank juice 68% of boys and 63% of girls drank soda Soda drinkers were less likely to get the recommended levels of: vitamin A calcium magnesium Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine November, 2000; 154: 1148-1152

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