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How safe are fizzy drinks?
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| 17/08/2012 03:35 PM |
Damage your teeth, kidney, bones... it’s a long list of harm done
The craze for bottled drinks, the fizzy thirst quenchers, seems to have afflicted the young and old alike. Daily, more than 1.6 billion cans and bottles of sickly brown liquids are gulped down worldwide making Coca-Cola one of the world’s leading brand! The first concoction of this drink in the USA by Asa Chandler in 1886 was sold as a brain tonic for “sick headaches, neuralgia, hysteria and melancholy.” Chandler’s formula is still a secret as he did not write it down. The list of its ingredients ...
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