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This article is about how the propaganda about coca-cola, Pepsi and other coke soft drinks are not true or at least, just a one side story.
I always loved coke.

The propaganda coke facts from 2 sites are born to promote bottle waters. Convert to scientific terms, the authors is basically saying "would you want to drink water or acid mixed with other non-water substances".
First of all, I will admit drinking a good amount of water really helps, all the kids in my school that drinks a lot of water beats me at AP chem tests, I don't believe it's coincidence. My hypothesis are still correct under my observation: amount of water consumed daily is directly proportional to the amount of time consumer studies daily.
Back to coke. Is coke really that bad? Is coke so acidic it melt T-bone steak in a bowl in 2 days? I could not take on the experiment, my family are cheap people. Clever Magazine, however, did an experiment and said this is false. Credibility of the article are low, but I'm leaning toward the experiment, the articles I'm flaming are way to biased.

The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

First part is true, but this is about what? Phosphoric acid. Is coke pure phosphoric acid? No. A study have shown that soft drinks have no effect on the calcium level on bones.

# Soft Drinks are EXTREMELY acidic, so much so that they can eat through the liner of an aluminum can and leach aluminum from the can if it sits on the shelf too long. Alzheimer patients who have been autopsied ALL have high levels of aluminum in their brains. Heavy metals in the body can lead to many neurological and other diseases.

Coke have a really low pH, different websites have different pH for the same product, but it's usually ranging between 2 to 4. People have a huge amount of fear of the word "acid". Let me give you a hint, gastric acid produced in your stomach lumen have pH from 1 to 2. Drinking normal soft drinks actually neutralize your pH in your stomach to a higher pH!

# Soft Drinks are EXTREMELY acidic: The human body naturally exists at a pH of about 7.0. Soft Drinks have a pH of about 2.5, which means you are putting something into your body that is hundred of thousands of times more acidic that your body is! Diseases flourish in an acidic environment. Soft Drinks and other acidic food deposit acid waste in the body which accumulates over time in the joints and around the organs. For example, the Body pH of cancer or arthritis patients are always low. The sicker the person, the lower the Body pH.

Umm. Human body naturally exist at pH of about 7.0. WTF. What do you mean naturally exist? Our blood's pH is 7.35 - 7.45, our saliva pH range from 6 to 7.5. You might say, hey, that's like only points away. This is log scale, pH 7.35 has less than half of pH 7's H⁺. Each part of the body have different pH, it's not some fact only people with human physiology Ph.D would know. Fluid inside vagina have pH between 4.3 to 4.9, with their logic, people should stop having sex because "putting something into[well.. onto] your body that is hundred of thousands of times more acidic that your body is". I don't know if it's true that pH of people with cancer and arthritis are low, if it does, it still doesn't mean soft drink are bad. pH is likely the consequence of the cancer and arthritis and not the other way around. The original article did not explicitly say low pH causes cancer. Why? because it's not true that's why.

# Soft Drinks can remove rust from a car bumper or other metal surfaces. Imagine what it's doing to your digestive tract as well as the rest of your body.

same as before. It's like saying "Gastric acid can remove rust from metal surfaces Imagine what it's doing to your digestive tract!". It's helping the digestive tract by dissolving food, when it enters the intestines, it will be mixed with fluids that neutralize the acid, no harm is done.
Other claims like soft drinks have high sugar, caffeine, steal away water. So what? Cake have high sugar, Coffee have caffeine, chips steals away water. Let's stop consuming every single thing with those effect! In fact, anything with lower concentration of water than your body steals away water.
Let use their logic and create a list of Top 5 Reasons never have anything other than pure bottled water.

1. Most Food steals away water (osmosis), pure water doesn't
2. Some food have large amount of salt. Pure water never contain salt, no more high blood pressure.
3. Some food have large amount of sugar. Pure water never contain sugar, no more sugar rush.
4. Food can take hours to weeks to digest, water takes no time, it just diffuses! Saves the intestine from busy work!
5. Even the food that doesn't have high salt or sugar, they must be either acidic or basic. Pure water always have pH of 7. Human body naturally exist at pH 7, yeeah~
6. This one is extra. Food can have fat. Water never have any. You will never need to worry about your weight~!
Because of the reasons above, food is really really bad for your body and you should never consume them.

I still drink coke. Don't let the propaganda scare you.