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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: One possible REAL problem with diet sodas.
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 00:11:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 00:11:48 1985
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	While everyone is debating sugar/saccharine/nutrasweet, I might add
the following to the fire, having nothing to do with the sweetener.
	Quite possibly the greatest problem that diet softdrinks might pose 
is that women(+) now drink them instead of "high calorie" milk (*). Not only do 
sodas contain no Calcium, but they are high in Phosphoric Acid, i.e. Phosphate,
which interferes with Calcium absorbtion, multiplying the effect.
	Of course whether this theory is right or not will not be determined
for another thirty years or so. But if it is, it could be that today's Pepsi
generation will be the 21st century's Osteoporosis generation.

[(+) This is not to imply that women are more prone to drink soda, only that
	they are more prone to develope osteoporosis.
[(*) I receive no money from the Dairy industry. In fact, I pay them $2.66/gal]
-- 
				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"