Drinking Cola May Weaken Women’s Bones

In what has been described as a "pretty clear dose response," research at the
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts
University shows that women who drink cola daily had lower bone mineral density
than those who drink it only once a week. Forbes online reports on the research, which is published in American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and which relied on data from more than
2,500 participants in the Framingham Osteoporosis Study. Forbes reports that bone density among women who drank cola daily was almost 4
percent less than that of women who didn’t drink cola, and that the findings were similar for diet cola, but weaker for
decaffeinated cola. Cola intake was not associated with lower bone mineral density
in men.