Tuesday, November 1

Soda Pop the beginning of a rant

I just was looking up information on soda pop for a client and found this on Coca Colas website.

The Coca-Cola Company

Active Healthy Living

As a Company, we care about people's health and well-being and want to make a positive difference in people's lives, both physically and emotionally. We aspire to help people lead active, healthy lifestyles through the beverages we produce and how we market them, the nutritional information we provide and our support of programs that encourage active living.
There is increasing concern about obesity. While there are many factors involved in obesity, the fundamental cause is an imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended. We are playing a leading role together with our partners and other stakeholders in identifying and implementing solutions to address issues of obesity as they affect consumers and our industry.
We promote active, healthy living through three guiding principles:
  • Think -- Education is essential to achieve sustainable, active, healthy lifestyles.
  • Drink -- Providing product and package variety is our commitment to consumers.
  • Move -- Physical activity is vital for health and well-being.
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Now here is what I want you to know about Soda Pop. Its evil, please don't drink it!
If you would like to read my paper I created for my client please continue on,
 
Coca Cola

Ingredients:

·         Carbonated water
·         Sugar (sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup depending on country of origin)
·         Caffeine
·         Phosphoric acid
·         Caramel color (E150d)
·         Natural flavorings
Carbonated water, like I mentioned during our assessment, expands your stomach. Causing you to be more hungry, and bloated from the direct effects of the bubbles. Carbonation can also cause heartburn, esophagus irritation and burning.
Now with your husband being a diabetic you are probably an expert on sugar. Sugar is converted into glucose in your body and used for energy. Our body does need glucose, but you should be getting it from a source that is better for your body such as fruit. Without getting too technical the table sugar is a different chemical makeup than the sugar in fruit. Chemically table sugar should be treated more like a poison than something you sprinkle in your drinks. The reason diabetics need to worry about going blind or losing a leg, is due to the sugar eating away at healthy tissue. This is the same sugar in soda pop.
High fructose corn syrup, just read HFCF as poison. It’s the cheapest sweetener companies can buy. It is so much worse than regular sugar because it does not suppress your hormone ghrelin (it tells your body to eat more) regular sugar will slow this hormone down. So you actually end up feeling hungrier (think about it, your belly is expanded and you mind is sending out hormones that are saying you are hungry, it leaves you defenseless) I know the corn companies have been trying to promote it as a healthy natural sweetener, but do you homework on HFCF. It’s really horrible stuff.
Caffeine, such a common word in our pantry that you will be surprised at what it really is, a stimulant drug. Caffeine acts as a stimulant on the central nervous system, classified as a phycoactive drug along with other stimulants like tobacco, amphetamine, cacao, guarana, ephedra, and khat. If you are trying to calm your mind and develop better sleep habits, caffeine is not what you want in your diet.
Phosphoric acid, along with being used in our food it is also common in duel energy X ray technology, rust removers, and chemical lab work. Phosphoric acid is the thing that cleans off pennies, and destroys your bones. This should not be consumed.
Caramel color E150d, I learned this new scary information that right now the FDA is trying to pass with legislation to ban this in our country as a toxic substance. YIKES (do I really need to say more?)
Natural flavoring, whatever that means. As you learned from reading the above ingredients that “natural” is not so natural when you are breaking down these strands of cells and mixing them together.
So that is our number one drink in America! Coca Cola, cheers.
Fact: Consumption of soft drinks has increased 500% in 50 years. Every corn syrup or sugar sweetened drink a child consumes each day increases his or her obesity risk 60%

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