Adverse effects on health and teeth due to carbonated soda drinks / soft drinks

Whether it’s a short respite from your work on a hot summer afternoon or a meeting with your college friend after many years, carbonated soda drinks are essentially one of the drinks you consume. Some of the few to name are: Cocacola, Fanta, Sprite, Pepsi, Mountain Dew , Mirinda, etc.
These go harmoniously with any casual fast foods like mo:mo: , chowmein, pizza, burger, etc. So, it’s not absurd if you find yourself drinking 2-3 drinks daily on a regular basis.

But, you might want to know few things about these so called soft drinks, because they are necessarily not as soft as you might have assumed

BPKIHS MCQs : Musculoskeletal System Past Questions MCQs 2000 May

Anatomy

1. The taste buds, composed of modified epithelial cells, in tongue have a varied distribution. In which part are these buds most numerous??

Foliate Papillae
Fungiform Papillae
Vallate Papillae
Central region of the dorsum of tongue

2. The infrahyoid group of muscles includes sternohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid , and omohyoid muscles. Which one of these muscles is supplied by fibers from the first cervical spinal nerve only?
Sternothyroid
Sternohyoid
Thyrohyoid
Omohyoid

MCQs in Pharmacology : General and local anesthetic agents

1. The immobility produced by by general anesthetics in response to painful surgical stimuli is primarily due to their action on:

Motor cortex
Basal ganglia
Thalamus
Spinal cord

2. The minimal alveolar concentration(MAC) of an inhalational anesthetic is the measure of its:
Potency
Therapeutic index
Diffusibility
Oil:water partition coefficient

MCQs on Renal System / Excretory system

1: The part of nephron least permeable to water is?
Proximal Tubule
Descending limb of Loop of Henle
Ascending limb of loop of Henle
Collecting Tubule

2. Tubular maximum for glucose is?
180 mg/dl
325 mg/dl
375 mg/min
375 mg/dl

MCQs on Endocrine System

1. Which of the following is not secreted by pituitary gland?
Prolactin
MSH
Oxytocin
ACTH

2. Which of the organs are capable of releasing hormones?
Endocrine gland
Brain
Heart
Liver
All of the above

MCQs on calcification and eruption of teeth

1.The first permanent tooth to erupt in the oral cavity is the:
Mandibular central incisor
Mandibular First Molar
Maxillary Central Incisor
Maxillary First Molar

2. The age of a child having 12 permanent and 12 deciduous teeth is:?
Four and half years
Eight and half years
Eleven and half years
Thirteen years
Fourteen years

MCQs in Pharmacology : Antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals

# The most common side effect of the oral administration of ampicillin is : 

A. Anaphylactic shock
B. Diarrhoea
C. Oral Candidiasis
D. Renal failure

# Which of the following drugs is likely to damage the eighth cranial nerve when administered for a long period of time ?
A. Ethambutol
B. Isoniazide
C. Rifampicin
D. Streptomycin