re: Tom Brady Calls Coca-Cola ‘Poison for Kids’

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After reading this, it made me thirsty for a Coke.

So I just went and bought one from the machine.

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you know what else is bad for kids Tom? Ill advised trips to Vegas with Ben Affleck and his kid's twenty-something year old nanny while your wife and kids are on vacation in the Caribbean. Or how bout your bat shite crazy wife that wants everyone eating non-GMO, organic only meals? (Then again, maybe this is TB just kissing Gissel's arse for the Vegas trip)

I don't disagree soda is unhealthy for children but I think you probably have bigger issues challenging your kids then a soft drink

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Nearly all carbonated soft drinks contain carbonic acid, which is moderately useful for tasks such as removing stains and dissolving rust deposits (although plain soda water is much better for some of these purposes than Coca-Cola or other soft drinks, as it doesn't leave a sticky sugar residue behind). Carbonic acid is relatively weak, however, and people have been drinking carbonated water for many years with no detrimental effects.

The rest of the claims offered here are specious. Coca-Cola does contain small amounts of citric acid and phosphoric acid; however, all the insinuations about the dangers these acids might pose to people who drink Coca-Cola ignore a simple concept familiar to any first-year chemistry student: concentration. Coca-Cola contains less citric acid than does orange juice, and the concentration of phosphoric acid in Coke is far too small (a mere 11 to 13 grams per gallon of syrup, or about 0.20 to 0.30 per cent of the total formula) to dissolve a steak, a tooth, or a nail overnight. (Much of the item will dissolve eventually, but after a day or two you'll still have most of the tooth, a whole nail, and one very soggy T-bone.) By comparison, the gastric acid in your stomach's digestive fluids is much stronger than any of the acids found in Coca-Cola.
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