The harm of children drinking carbonated drinks

Carbonated drinks are one of the most popular beverages for children, but this is also the most dangerous beverage. As parents, you must keep your children away from carbonated drinks and avoid affecting normal growth and development. Here, we summarize the harms of children drinking carbonated drinks. Let's take a look.

The danger of carbonated drinks

Easy to drink and thirsty. Some experts pointed out that carbonated beverages contain a lot of pigments, additives, preservatives and other substances, and no one is good for the body. These ingredients require a lot of moisture when they are metabolized in the body, and the caffeine contained in cola also has a diuretic effect, which promotes the excretion of water, so the more you drink carbonated drinks, the more you will feel thirsty.

Lead to osteoporosis. Experts point out that drinking phosphate-containing beverages such as cola can affect the body's absorption of calcium. The ingredients of carbonated drinks, especially cola, contain mostly phosphoric acid. Usually people don't care, but this kind of phosphoric acid can affect your bones subtly, and people who drink carbonated beverages often suffer from bone health problems.

A large amount of phosphoric acid intake will affect the absorption of calcium, causing calcium, phosphorus imbalance. Once calcium is missing, the physical development of young people in the growth process is very serious. Calcium deficiency undoubtedly means slow bone development and osteoporosis. Therefore, data show that young people who frequently drink carbonated drinks are at risk of fracture. 3 times.

Easy to cause kidney stones. Calcium is the main component of stones. After drinking too much caffeinated carbonated beverages, the calcium content in the urine will increase significantly, making them more likely to produce stones. If you take more caffeine, the risk is even greater. Magnesium and citrate in human body can help people to prevent the formation of kidney stones. However, after drinking caffeinated beverages, they are also excreted, which greatly increases the risk of stone disease.

The harm of children drinking carbonated drinks

Affect the function of the digestive system. Carbonic drinks contain a lot of carbon dioxide, although it can play a certain degree of antibacterial and cooling effect, drink it is also quite refreshing, but a lot of gas into the stomach is easy to produce flatulence, affecting the normal function of digestive function. The antibacterial function of carbon dioxide is not selective, and it also has a destructive effect on many beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract. Children who drink carbonated drinks often will not be able to keep up with their nutritional intake, which is not conducive to physical development.

Seriously hinder the body's absorption of calcium. The children are still in a long period and the demand for calcium is very large. The proportion of calcium and phosphorus in the human body is a certain percentage, but after a large number of ingested carbonated drinks rich in phosphoric acid, this proportion will be broken, and the absorption of calcium will be severely hindered. The development is very unfavorable, and severe cases suffer from osteoporosis in adulthood and often have fractured bones.

Causes the health of the teeth to deteriorate. As the name suggests, carbonated beverages are acidic liquids that, when in contact with teeth, can attack the surface of the enamel, making the teeth more and more sensitive and unable to withstand the normal cold, hot and sour taste. In addition, the sugar content in beverages is also very high, and this ingredient is a fertile ground for the development of caries bacteria.

Types of carbonated drinks

Juice type carbonated drinks. Refers to carbonated beverages with fruit juice content of at least 2.5%;

Fruity carbonated beverages. Refers to the use of fruit flavor as the main flavoring agent, the original juice content of less than 2.5% of carbonated beverages;

Cola carbonated drinks. Refers to caramel-colored, cola-flavored or fruit-flavored, spicy, fruity blends of carbonated beverages;

Low-calorie carbonated drinks. Refers to all kinds of carbonated beverages and soda waters that replace sugars in whole or in part with sweeteners, with a calorie below 75 kJ/100 mL;

Other types of carbonated drinks. Refers to the inclusion of plant extracts or non-fruity flavorings for the flavoring agent and for supplementing the carbonated beverages such as sports sodas that were lost after exercise.

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