I've had soda twice in the last year.
It tasted yucky.
Thats another thing... I've drunk so much soda that Im now able to tell if a drink with sugar or cornsyrup in it just by sipping it.
Has anyone ever tried 'organic' sodas made with real sugar cane juice? They makes regular sodas taste like crap. They're more costly though, but their worth it.
They taste good and all, but if they have that chemical added in the actual aluminum can, called BPA, then I wouldn't drink it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_AUse
Further information: Polycarbonate
Bisphenol A is used primarily to make plastics, and products containing bisphenol A-based plastics have been in commerce for more than 50 years. It is used in the synthesis of polyesters, polysulfones, and polyether ketones, as an antioxidant in some plasticizers, and as a polymerization inhibitor in PVC. It is a key monomer in production of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins.[4] Polycarbonate plastic, which is clear and nearly shatter-proof, is used to make a variety of common products including baby and water bottles, sports equipment, medical and dental devices, dental fillings and sealants, lenses, CDs and DVDs, and household electronics.[5] Epoxy resins containing bisphenol A are used as coatings
on the inside of almost all food and beverage cans.[6] Bisphenol A is also a precursor to the flame retardant, tetrabromobisphenol A, and was formerly used as a fungicide.[7]
Global production of bisphenol A in 2003 was estimated to be over 2 million metric tonnes (t).[8] In the U.S., it is manufactured by Bayer MaterialScience, Dow Chemical Company, General Electric, Hexion Specialty Chemicals, and Sunoco Chemicals. In 2004, these companies produced just over 1 million t of bisphenol A, up from just 7,260 t in 1991. In 2003, annual U.S. consumption was 856,000 t, 72% of which was used to make polycarbonate plastic and 21% going into epoxy resins.[5]
Research
The first evidence of the
estrogenicity :shocked: of bisphenol A came from experiments on rats conducted in the 1930s,[16][17] but it was not until 1997 that adverse effects of low-dose exposure on laboratory animals were first reported.[6] Since then, its endocrine disrupting properties have been extensively investigated, and more than 100 studies have been published
"rais[ing] health concerns" about the chemical.[18]
Recent studies suggest
it may also be linked to obesity[22] by triggering fat-cell activity[23] and have confirmed that bisphenol A exposure during development has
carcinogenic effects and produce precursors of breast cancer.
Most recently, a study by the Yale School of Medicine demonstrated that adverse neurological effects occur in non-human primates regularly exposed to bisphenol A at levels equal to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) maximum safe dose of 50 µg/kg/day.[28][29] This research
found a connection between BPA and interference with brain cell connections vital to memory, learning and mood. :shocked:
Hansens makers of Blue Sky organic soda, uses BPA in their soda lining. Although they say the FDA and the Plastic
industry claims its safe for beverages.
UGH and a lot of organic producers of canned food produce their stuff with BPA. :really-mad2: Best thing to do is contact the manufacturer. It has really bad effects on pregnant women, children and the unborn. And oddly enough, at LOW DOSES, it's said to be MORE TOXIC than at HIGH levels....
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Drinking out of glass is the best way to go, and good oral hygiene, (read: WITHOUT FLUORIDE) to make sure you don't get cavities from sipping, HFCS or not, is also good.
I've turned to coffee and water only, and sometimes organic tea. Bulk coffee I grind and brew myself, and tea in glass bottles. Sadly I have no water filter, so I've had to go with #1 refilled bottles plastic of Reverse Osmosis.
Hopefully that helped. You can look up BPA's effects on multiple different websites.
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