Does diet soda leech calcium from bones?

While everyone else is at Starbucks getting their morning latte, you're at the vending machine picking up a Diet Coke. And if you're going to ... But when you look at the ingredients of the soda and give those to healthy people and measure what it does to their calcium composition, nothing happens at all. read more

Researchers at Tufts University, studying several thousand men and women, found that women who regularly drank cola-based sodas -- three or more a day -- had almost 4% lower bone mineral density in the hip, even though researchers controlled for calcium and vitamin D intake. read more

Soda is definitely bad for your bones, but scientists haven’t yet figured out if the phosphoric acid found in cola is partly to blame. Some researchers believe phosphoric acid leaches calcium from our bones or interferes with calcium metabolism in other ways, but our understanding is still limited. read more