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Soda Pop or Solvent?
If high levels of sugar, artificial sweeteners, preservatives and artificial coloring in soda pop don't convince you to find an alternative beverage, perhaps this will:
Recently in Britain, as much as 36 times the accepted level of highly toxic benzene have been found in soda pop. For those unfamiliar, benzene is a flammable petroleum product that is a key component in many solvents and cleaners as well as in gasoline. It's also a known carcinogen with strong links to leukemia in humans.
From my point of view, ANY amount of this in your food should be above the 'accepted' level, but if you want the official view, the World Health Organization says that drinking water should contain no more than 1 part per billion!
Do you know what's in your soda pop? It might not all be on the label...
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