Here is the next installment in my "Let's Get Sick!" series. Last month we covered the first five steps you can take to create weaker bones, this article covers the last five. Please, on bended—but not broken—knee, I implore you to remember that my objective is quite serious and quite sincere: I'm devoted to teaching each of you how to get sick. But if that's not your desire to the very depths of your bones, well then simply just do the opposite of what I recommend. Are we clear on that premise?
6) Drink more sodas! Now, for all you regular readers of my "Let's Get Sick!" series, you know how I delight in picking on all you Java drinkers out there. Okay, just this once, I'm going to shift our caffeine focus. Please, whatever you do, adopt the national average of drinking two–three sodas/day. And if you're a youngster (under nineteen) please keep up with your peers by downing three–six sodas/day!). I mean, come on, we've all got to do our part if we're going to hit the Big Pharma-contrived goal of 61 million osteoporotic Americans by 2020.
As noted in step #2 [December, 2011], keeping your pH low is critically important for ensuring osteoporosis and systemic bone loss. But best of all, you can't pee any liquid that's below a pH of 5.0! Yikes! Just relax, the body has an elegant design to neutralize these toxic fluids (sodas with a pH=~3). Now let me go "geek" on you. In order for the body to metabolize a 12-oz. cola so that it can be excreted via the urine (at a pH of 5), it's got to dilute this soda one hundred-fold (100X), in one of two ways:
1. Produce an additional 33 liters of urine (not likely, since that would be equivalent to drowning!), or
2. Create an equivalent amount of alkaline mineral which must be drawn from the body to buffer this excess acid. (Trust me, that's a significant amount of mineral.)
All that buffering for just one little can of cola! Now, imagine the effects of two–three cans of cola/day for ten to twenty years. Now how cool is that?!? And you thought the only problems with drinking sodas were the fact that they rot your teeth, have high fructose corn syrup and are made with artificial colors. What a relief to
