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A comment on Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda Pop (2014).

Re:Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic His... by subcosmos on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:51AM (#17979558)
To this day, almost all aluminum cans carrying soda are lined with a resin that inhibits the insulin signaling pathway, and is associated with Type 2 diabetes. Most of the manufacturers make claims that it's harmless.

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/contact-us/faqs

Despite what they say, the scientific consensus is opposite, really, with the vast majority of academic papers suggesting quite harmful effects : https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/diabetes-time-to-resort-to-plas...

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Re:Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic His... by Raphmedia on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:40PM (#17980635)
If BPA indeed cause those issues, we have more problems at hand than the coating in cans. BPA is everywhere those days.
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Re:Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic His... by brightball on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:52PM (#17980735)
Glass bottled soft drinks are a treat in more ways than one it seems.
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Re:Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic His... by milesvp on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:10PM (#17979709)
I was under the impression it's all aluminium cans that need a chemical buffer to prevent aluminium from leeching into the fluids. Long term Aluminium poisoning is probably worse than diabetes since it tends to eat away at your brain.

Either way I'm not particularly fond of the flavor that aluminium cans seem to impart on drinks, and have been starting to avoid them more as I get older.

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Re:Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic His... by subcosmos on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:21PM (#17979802)
Yup - bisphenol-a containing resins are the precise lining that is used to prevent the aluminum from getting eaten by the carbonic acid.

There was also this fascinating study showing that BPA drove liver fat accumulation much more profoundly than fructose, which I find interesting. Both are clearly bad, but futzing with hormones is especially bad : https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0300483X120036...

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