How Bad is Mountain Dew for you?

Question

Well i drink about 2 cans or so a day and i just wondered how bad for me that is? What long term affects is this doing to my body?

Answer 1

The caffeine can give interfere with your heart rate and rhythm

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The phosphorous in any soda can leach the calcium out of your bones, including teeth, causing them to become brittle.

The acid can eat away the enamel on your teeth.

The acid, the phosphorous leaching the calcium, and the sugar all can cause your teeth to rot out.  Even if you brush, you cannot undo the undetectable damage being done slowly by the acid and the phosphorous.  By the time the damage it noticeable, it is too late.

The sugar can cause spikes in your blood sugar levels, which causes your body to over produce insulin, which will cause your blood sugar levels to drop too much, which eventually can take a toll on your pancreas (which produces the insulin) which will lead to the development of diabetes.

Too much soda and not enough other type of fluids (juice, milk, water) can lead to kidney inflammation which can lead to more medical problems.

All the empty calories will cause you to get fat.

All this can happen with any soda, but Mt. Dew has more sugar and caffeine than most.

Answer 2

I think Adair answered your question but just wanted to pass along an observation. My son opened a can of dew and was called back to his work station, he set it in his locker that he usually never used and forgot about it. Three months later he opened his locker and there sat the dew...all the moisture had evaporated and he had a can 3/4 full crystallized sugar.  Way too much for human consumption. He quit drinking dew and lost 15 pounds.

Answer 3

Never heard of it... I guess its American? Thus loaded with crappy additives!  

Answer 4

back then mountain dew had something in it that made a guy's private smaller XD but they changed that and also got sued well soda is bad for teeth and too much sugar ^^ read this http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...

my bf is addicted to caffine in soda and trying to stop XD