According to the UK newspaper The Telegraph, (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/nutrition/sparkling-water-teeth/), drinking some carbonated beverages can be harmful to your teeth. Should this cause you to stop drinking soda? If you read the article carefully, the answer is: No. Why?
Here are the caveats:
- “Drinking sparkling water is much less harmful for your teeth than high-sugar fizzy drinks.” (Dr. Tom Crawford-Clarke)
- “This won’t cause cavities or tooth decay in itself” but “can leave you more prone to cavities if you already have a high-sugar diet.” Obviously, that is something that, with Rio Soda, you would be controlling by making your own, natural drinks without added sugar.
- Dr. Crawford-Clarke recommends carbonated beverages “with a meal or as an occasional treat.”
- Do carbonated beverages cause leaching of calcium from bones? “That would only be the case with fizzy sodas that contain phosphorus.” (Phosphoric acid.) By using Rio Soda Sparkling Beverage Making machines you control your ingredients, therefore you would not put that in your beverages anyway, right?
- Do they raise blood pressure? Only “when consumed in large amounts, sodium can raise your blood pressure, but the amount of sodium in sparkling water when drunk in moderation is ‘negligible,’ Trotman says.” (Sophie Trotman, a registered nutritionist) Again, with Rio Soda, you have the control.
- The conclusion? According to Ms Trotman: “A glass or two of sparkling water a day can be a good option.” According to Dr. Crawford-Clarke: Plain sparkling water “is a much better choice than any other carbonated drink” when it comes to your teeth.
There you have it, even detractors agree that drinking Sparkling Beverages where you control what they contain is good for you! Rio Soda helps you do just that.