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A fizzy drink addict who sank a staggering eight litres of cola a day has lost all his teeth - and he's only in his twenties.
Australian hotel hospitality worker William Kennewell ignored repeated warnings from dentists that his fondness for soft drinks would rot his teeth and has now been left with a full set of dentures at the age of 25.
I see people all the time at the clinics I work at who are 22 and have no teeth. It's not necessarily the soda that'll decay your teeth, it's the lack of brushing and flossing. Granted, that's alot of soda to drink, but one can never say it was purely the soda that did it. It's the same with drug addicts. You can never just say, well the drugs decayed their teeth down to nothing. No! It's the drugs coupled with the fact that you don't brush and floss your teeth that decayed the teeth. Good article though!
Calcium is sucked out of your teeth by Coke, and particularly if you're female. Inotherwords, Coke is a bad as heroin since you're laying down calcium until you're in your late twenties. Your body then slowly loses it all your life. Bone loss, and tooth loss is very common and even life threatening for women in particular.
Lions' Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, B.C. has some leading doctors studying Osteo. bone loss occuring among the young and soda along with abuse of asthma inhalers accounts for their main focus. The wife of a French friend didn't read the instructions for her inhalor and is dealing with life threatening bone loss in her mid thirties.
This is not because he drank a lot of soda. This is because he neglected to take care of your teeth.
If you drink 8 liters of soda, brush after meals, floss, and visit the dentist every 6 months you won't lose your teeth. You might suffer from some erosion but there's no way you'd lose your teeth.
That's a reasonable decision, as who really needs soda? However, one or two twelve-ounce cans of soda per day will probably not have any particularly bad effects unless one is diabetic, in which case it should be diet soda. The amount cited in the OP is simply enormous. A liter is slightly more than a quart, and a quart is 32 fluid ounces. I have calculated that eight liters per day is the approximate equivalent of 22 twelve-ounce cans of soda!
Quite apart from the direct effect on teeth (a subject of debate here among posters), that much sugar (provided the subject of the article was drinking regular soda) is just horrible from the standpoint of a healthy diet. Who would eat 22 donuts a day, for example?
I see people all the time at the clinics I work at who are 22 and have noteeth. It's not necessarily the soda that'll decay your teeth, it's the lack of brushing and flossing. Granted, that's alot of soda to drink, but one can never say it was purely the soda that did it. It's the same with drug addicts. You can never just say, well the drugs decayed their teeth down to nothing. No! It's the drugs coupled with the fact that you don't brush and floss your teeth that decayed the teeth. Good article though!
Your statement which I placed in bold was a stunning eye-opener for me. I just had no idea that so many people could neglect their own health so completely as to achieve such a result by the age of 22! I am 68 and I am disappointed that I already have two implants and I have wondered how I came to have such poor results (loss of two teeth before age 70). Your post puts things in a quite different perspective, and perhaps I am not doing so badly after all.
OMG! thats horrible. how come people do this to themselves.. not taking care of their own health. The sparkling water contain carbon dioxide dissolved in it, small amount of carbonic acid is formed which makes it more acidic and contricute to dental erosion.
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