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Your dad has been wrong for almost 40 years.
Depends on if he made the statement in California or not.
In California sand has a warning label.
To be fair, eating, drinking, or inhaling sand is not great for you.
Oh crap, now what am I going to have for lunches.
There’s still no evidence that it does. Unless, perhaps, you’re injecting gigantic amounts of it into rats or something. But drinking it in a soda? Nobody’s ever proved any evidence that it’s anything but safe.
Anything can be dangerous if you consume too much of it.
just breathing air in a city is dangerous
It isn’t dangerous at all when used as a food additive. And if you have evidence to the contrary, you’d be the first ever to find it.