A study by Katherine Tucker director of the Epidemiology and Dietary Assessment Program at Tufts University in Boston and colleagues of 2,500 people showed an apparently direct link between drinking cola and low bone mineral density in women regardless of their age or calcium intake.
The results were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Click here for the BBC report.
A few questions spring to mind. Is it the phosphoric acid that helps leach calcium from the bones, or is the issue related to the 7 or 8 teaspoons of sugar in every can? Is regular cola drinking associated with being overweight more often in women than men and does this have any bearing on the observed osteoporosis risk.
Moreover, could this have anything to do with the levels of benzene in soft drinks that have been hushed up for the last fifteen years but came to a head earlier this year?
Why don’t men suffer an increased risk similar to the women in the study?