Re: Is Soda Bad For You?
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Also, it is amazing that Coke will eat a tooth in 24 hours yet leave an aluminum can unscathed.
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Not really. The surface of aluminum oxidizes almost instantly forming a very hard and very chemically inert coating. This coating is very resistance to the harsh chemicals in soda.
The enamel compund which makes up teeth has a hydroxyl or alcohol group on it which is damn near perfectly designed to be disolved by acids. It is the hydroxyl group which is replaced by Flouride that causes your teeth to last as long as they do. Without the aid of flouride, most of us wouldn't have our teeth by the time we his middle age. They don't repair themselves, and you don't get new ones. In my opinion teeth are designed very poorly.
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