I'm not very fundamentalistic when it comes to things people drink or eat that's bad for them, but when it comes to soda pop, friends, the gloves come off.

As researchers Barzel and Massey calculated, the pH of colas with phosphoric acid has a pH of 2.8 to 3.2. However, the kidney cannot excrete urine with a pH much lower than 5, without significantly damaging the genitourinary tract. Neutral is 7. To achieve a urinary pH of 5, a 12 oz. (330mL) can of cola would have to be diluted 100-fold, requiring an additional 33 liters of urine. Otherwise, a corresponding amount of buffer must be drawn from the body to neutralize the excess acid.

Because 33 liters of urine is approximately 8 gallons we could never come up that amount of fluid so the acid buffers that are normally needed for cellular health are used to bring the urine pH up to a tolerable level to pass the acids out of the body without damaging the genitourinary tract.

Where do you think the mineral reserves are stored? In the skeleton! The two purposes of the skelton are to hold us upright and to act as an alkaline reserve in times of stress or overacidity.

The skeleton contains 99% of the body's calcium. It also contains substantial amounts of sodium, potassium, magnesium, citrate, and carbonate. This translates to 37 to 49% of our sodium stores, 0.1%-0.2% of the body's potassium, 53%-80% of the body's magnesium, 59%-83% of the body's carbonate.

The skeleton is alkaline.

When low calcium or magnesium shows up (low alkaline, high acid), you are in a later stage of disease. Elevated blood calcium indicates that low levels of magnesium, potassium and sodium are possible and calcium is now being used as a buffer. Literally your stores are running out.

The majority of the US population is in a constant state of leaching out alkalinity from the body's own skeleton. I know, it sounds like a horror movie, but that's exactly what's happening. And then we get an actress with a sympathetic background, Sally Fields, “The Flying Nun” (who wouldn't trust her? Certainly the elderly do), throwing in her nun hat, to make a few mil while pitching a bone drug called Boniva. Is this the best you can do, Sally?

Where are the spokespeople who know that it is a form of child abuse to have soda pop machines in tens of thousands of elementary, middle and high schools throughout America? Are they ignorant to the fact that obesity, diabetes, candida, and all kinds of other diseases are rampant in the youth, due to suppressed immune systems? The horror is that soda pop is a primary catalyst to the fermentation of the blood. This fermentation, caused by over-acidity is the cause of all diseases. It makes the blood to be in a constant state of disease whereby 45% of all women aged 20-24 carry the HPV virus, for example, and too many of them will die of cancer or other complications down the line. If that percentage is not indicative of a major problem, I don't know what is.

And that's just one disease of dozens caused by overacidity.

Sending a message to our government, school administrations and PTAs would be a great start to get soda machines out of these buildings once and for all. Use research that shows that soda pop causes heart disease. Or is a cause of obesity. And diabetes. And on and on. These are just the links we know of.

We are literally rusting ourselves to death.Well let's get it banned then. Soda makers, do not despair. There are other uses for you to squeeze out profits by selling your liquid acid. Here are some traditional other uses:

1  - Clean up spills. In many states the Highway Patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2  - Make something disappear. You can put a T-Bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days.