I need you to stop what you’re doing right now and listen to me. I am taking the time out of my super important and busy day to write this article in a way that will capture your attention long enough for you to listen to me. Today I am going to be writing about the threat that you face each and every day if you partake in drinking very sugary drinks. Honestly, America is facing a bigger issue than economic recession and social security - I’m talking about the issue of soft drinks and similar beverages. What am I talking about? Well, I’m glad you asked. Because I have been waiting so long to be able to finally tell someone about this huge problem that has been laid heavy on my poor soul. I will first start this by telling you a story about my dental hygiene.
I used to be your average, everyday dude, until one day I was not. It all started in my early twenties, when I found a newly discovered affinity for sugary drinks. It didn’t matter to me if it was soda, juice, kool-aid, sports drinks, or alcoholic drinks - if there was a lot of sugar, I drank it all the time. My favorite drink was redbull, because it always got me absolutely juicing during my workday and I would type faster than anybody else you’ve ever seen. Have you ever heard of the peach edition red bull? Well, it’s a game changer. I am telling you all this to let you know that my teeth are absolutely destroyed. I went to the dentist several weeks ago because I noticed my teeth were in a lot more pain than usual, and I even had started to notice some bad breath pretty much all the time. Well, my worst fears became true when the dentist told me that my teeth were basically eating themselves and rotting so badly that it was causing an infection in my gums. As you can imagine, this meant that I pretty much had to go get all the rotting teeth pulled out so as to not succumb to mouth cancer in 4 years.
I asked my dentist what could have possibly caused this to happen to my mouth, because I had no idea that my lifestyle choices were leading to such a dark future regarding my dental hygiene. Well, believe it or not, the doctor told me that excessive drinking of sugary drinks like soda and energy drinks ruined my teeth. The sugar was too much on top of the fact that I don’t regularly floss my teeth or even floss them. The dentist said this is what they called “the motherload '' of decaying teeth, and that there was absolutely nothing they could do to save my poor pearly whites (well, they were mostly gray/brown towards the end of their life). Now I have no teeth in my mouth and I am forced to wear dentures the rest of my life. I understand that it could be worse, and that if this were to happen to a peasant in the 1400s, they would most likely die of infection rather than live semi-comfortably with dentures.
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