9. Soda
This product is undoubtedly one of the worst of the worst. It’s basically little more than liquid sugar with a good dose of artificial colors and flavors thrown in. Worse yet, the manufacturers of these beverages now substitute other sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners like aspartame for sugar since it probably costs them less to produce the product which boosts the money they make selling it to a mostly-unsuspecting public. It’s not hard to see just how awful this stuff is when you consider that much of it also contains phosphoric acid, which inhibits your body’s ability to absorb calcium. Don’t be fooled by labels that contain words like “natural” or “all natural,” since they are really meaningless, and there are no laws that strictly govern the use of those terms. Many manufacturers settle on plain old tap water to produce their product, meaning that it may also contain things like fluoride, chlorine and other contaminants.