I usually have eight before work. I bring eight or nine to work with me, then have two or three after work before I go to bed. That's a significant amount of sugar consumption. Regular pop has nine teaspoons of sugar in every 12-ounce can. That's enough for a normal healthy woman for the whole day.
Soft drinks are basically sugar water.
That sugar, combined with the phosphoric acid, eats away at tooth enamel. Dentists say it takes just 15 seconds after you take a sip. This is not to suggest that everyone who drinks soft drinks gets fat, loses their teeth and walks around on weak bones. We'd have a lot more money. Copyright 2000 by Channel 4000 .