Soft drinks will be the next problem found in daily foods and groceries consumed by most of us. Let us look at the next problem found in everyday foods and groceries consumed by most Americans: soft drinks.
We are a nation of people hooked on soft drinks. As I know from experience - and maybe your own experience agrees with this - many of us turned overweight or obese firstly by doing diets high in soft drink consumption. As a result, we are now “addicted” to these soft drinks while having a hard time removing them from our diet.
This addiction works at many levels. It is more than just a need: it is a biochemical, multisensory addiction that can be hard for individuals to break.
I know this well because of my friend: He grew up on a diet that was high in soft drink consumption. During most of our younger years, He hardly drank water at all and, instead, relied on soft drinks. It only took six months for him to stop the habit. In addition, I am happy to say today that he has been 100 percent free of soft drinks for nearly 10 years.
Obviously, this is the goal you should shoot for: the complete and permanent removal of soft drinks from your dietary habits.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to reach the goal, and most people trying to lose some weight inevitably turn to diet soft drinks to prevent the extraordinary refined sugars present in regular soft drinks.
The damaging health effects of soft drink use
While it is a good decision avoiding refined sugars, especially when they are introduced in liquid candy form as it is in soft drinks, there are features of soft drinks that pose great dangers to your health, which go way beyond corn syrup.
People widely ignore these characteristics.
There is a frustrating amount of proof, which shows soft drinks leach minerals from your bones, resulting in decreased bone mass as well as the onset of osteoporosis. There are many other problems associated with the repeated consumption of even diet soft drinks, as you will see.
Let us start by looking at some statistics that show an alarming increase in consuming soft drinks through the years and the huge spending by the soft drinks manufacturers to market this disease-promoting substance
Soft drink consumption and marketing statistics
• The Coca-Cola Company spends nearly $300 million each year on soft drink advertisements
• The typical American consumes over 200 pounds of sugar and artificial sweeteners each year
• The typical teenage male who drinks soda drinks over 42 ounces every day, and the habits of women are just better
• The typical American drinks more than 50 gallons of soft drinks each year.
Soft drink amounts - Super size me!
At the same time advertising expenses on soft drinks are increasing, and fast food restaurants, movie theaters, quick stop convenience marts and other shopping establishments that offer soft drinks be upsizing their amounts to ridiculous levels:
The largest movie-theater soft drink contains 800 calories if not too diluted with ice. Larger amounts can contribute to extra weight unless of course people compensate with exercise and diet. From an industry perspective, however, larger amounts make good promoting sense. The cost of food is lower labor and other causes that add value.
Large amounts attract customers who go to all-you-can-eat restaurants and order double-scoop ice cream cones because the relative prices discourage the choice of smaller portions. It does not need much mathematical skill to know the larger portions of McDonald’s french fries are a better choose compared to “small” when they are 40 percent cheaper an ounce
-Marion
Diet soft drinks do not cause you to lose weight
Despite all of this increase in consuming soft drinks - especially diet soft drinks - it, turns out diet soft drinks do not help people drop some weight first.
If you have not already experienced this yourself (you know, a longtime of buying “diet” soft drinks with no losing a single pound), just head into any grocery store and look at those who are buying diet soft drinks. They are not thin people.
From my own observations, the more diet soft drinks a person buys in line at the grocery store, the more overweight they be.
There have been no scientific studies detailing which “diet” soft drinks help people lose weight. In fact, the experience of most people is the contrary. Soft drink manufacturers definitely do not claim their products cause people to lose weight, simply because they understand they could not get away with that claim with no some proof - and they have none.
Technically, then, all diet soft drinks are mislabeled.
There is nothing about them that qualifies as “diet,” and the FDA should need soft drink manufacturers to either prove their drinks help people lose weight or disallow the use of the word “diet” in the product names.
A closer look at the health problems linked to soft drink intake
Now, let us look at the various problems and health problems involving diet soft drinks. First, the obvious: artificial chemical sweeteners:
Artificial chemical sweeteners
Factoid: One liter of most aspartame-sweetened soft drinks covers about 55 mg of methanol.
- H.J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame: Is It Safe?
We have already covered artificial chemical sweeteners in some information, so I will limit my comments in this section.
However, allow me to summarize what we have learned so far:
- Most diet soft drinks are sweetened with aspartame. It is known that aspartame breaks into methanol (free methyl alcohol) which is a chemical regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency and considered an environmental pollutant. This methanol, in turn, breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde inside human body.
- Formaldehyde is a potent nerve toxin, which may explain why so many users of aspartame complain of nerve-related symptoms such as blindness, dizziness, migraine headaches, and seizures. Aspartame alone is responsible for 75 percent of the food and beverage-related health complaints to the FDA.
- Aspartame remains legal solely because of the financial and political interests of those who make money from its sales and consumption. The FDA does not protect the public from aspartame because FDA acts in collusion with private industry, than of the public.
I believe when the truth about aspartame becomes publicly known, it will get in on the artificial sweetener cyclamate on the list of toxic chemicals restricted from use in the food supply.
Once this ban is applied, I predict the FDA will champion that ban, claiming they are “protecting the public!” Sure, they are, but only after tens of millions have been unnecessarily harmed.
As a reminder of the toxic nature of aspartame, here is a quote from the book Aspartame: Is It Safe?
The unknowing consumption of aspartame, whether by swallowing or chewing gum, predictably caused resulting grand mal seizures. Aspartame swallowed in some patients was remarkably small.
This is illustrated by (1) a baby whom developed convulsions when his nursing mother drank an aspartame soft drink, and (2) a young woman thought to have aspartame-related epilepsy who convulsed within minutes after chewing one-piece of “sugar-free” gum.
- H. J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame: Is It Safe?
Soft drinks, phosphorus, meat and osteoporosis
Besides the significant health risks caused from the artificial chemical sweeteners present diet soft drinks, another major health risk exists.
This one is seldom discussed, nevertheless, and because few people know about it. They enjoyably drink gallons and gallons of diet soft drinks every year, thinking they are “protecting themselves” from ravages of refined sugars and high-fructose corn syrup.
The things they do not realize is the fact that although they may be avoiding the refined sugars, they are not preventing another problem that is perhaps worse: the damaging mineral imbalance.
To understand how this works, however, you will first need a fundamental understanding of how minerals work in the human body. Minerals like calcium and magnesium needs to be present in a certain ratio (2 to 1, in this case) to support healthy, balanced work within your body. If this ratio is substantially altered, imbalances begin to occur.
These mineral imbalances can create destructive health results.
One important mineral ratio in the human body is the calcium-to-phosphorus ratio. For the best balance and healthy work throughout the body, calcium and phosphorus must exist in a ratio of around 1:1. In other words, for every 500mg of calcium you consume, you should ideally get 500mg of phosphorus as well.
The standard American diet is excessively high in phosphorus because of its heavy reliance on foods and drinks having high phosphorus content such as meats and dairy products. All by itself, this dietary pattern presents possible imbalances in the calcium-to-phosphorus ratio.
Most people are simply not getting enough calcium in their bodies, however they are consuming an excess of phosphorus through meats and other high-protein foods (protein, in general, contains a high phosphorus content). Remember: phosphorus is not a “bad” mineral; in fact, it is essential to your health. What is wrong here is the ratio of these minerals when phosphorus is consumed in excess.
There is also the issue of the acidity of soft drinks.
When you consume these acidic drinks, your body must neutralize that acid by loading it with alkaline minerals such as calcium. In addition, where do you believe your body might find stores of calcium? Your bones, of course, which are like “calcium banks” on your body.
This way, eating or drinking soft drinks causes your body tapping your bones to find the calcium needed to “balance” the phosphorus ratio in your body.
This calcium is stripped out of your bones and then removed through your urine.
Whenever you drink soft drinks, you are peeing away your bones
Putting it simple, if you often drink soft drinks, you are starting a series of biochemical cause-and-effect events that cause you peeing your bones away.
As explained in The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine:
Soft drinks have traditionally become suspected of causing lower calcium levels and higher phosphate levels in the blood. When phosphate levels are high and calcium levels are low, calcium is taken out of the bones. The phosphate content of soft drinks is high, and they contain no calcium. It appears that increased soft drink intake is a major reason that contributes to osteoporosis.
The link between soft drink consumption as well as bone loss is going to become more important as children who were nearly weaned on soft drinks reach adulthood. Soft drink consumption in children poses an important risk reason for weakened calcification of growing bones.
Since there is such a strong correlation between maximum bone-mineral density and the risk of osteoporosis, the rate of osteoporosis may reach even greater epidemic proportions.
The severe negative impact that soft drinks exert on bone development in children was clearly shown in a study that compared fifty-seven children with low blood calcium levels, aged eighteen months to fourteen years, to 171 matched controls (children with normal calcium levels). The purpose of the study was to assess whether consuming at least 1.5 quarts each week of phosphate-containing soft drinks is a risk reason for developing low blood calcium levels. Not surprisingly, a strong association was found.
Of the fifty-seven children who had low blood calcium levels, thirty-eight (66.7 percent) drank over four bottles (12 to 16 ounces a bottle) of soft drinks a week, but only forty-eight (28 percent) of the 171 children with normal serum calcium levels consumed as much soft drink. For all 228 children, an important relationship between serum calcium level and the number of bottles of soft drink consumed each week was found. The greater amount of soft drinks consumed, the lower the calcium level.
These results more than support the contention that soft drink consumption leads to lower calcium levels in children.
This situation that finally leads to poor bone mineralization, explaining the higher risk of broken bones in children who consume soft drinks.
Though this study focused on children, the same is true for adults: the more soft drinks you consume (diet), the lower your levels of calcium. These soft drinks leach calcium out of your bones.
Loss of calcium and bone mass brings directly to osteoporosis and other bone disorders:
The skeletal system suffers most from calcium shortage. Tooth minerals are more stable, though there is a possibility of poor dentition with inadequate calcium. Tooth loss, periodontal disease, and gingivitis can be problems, especially with a high phosphorus intake, from soft drinks. All sorts of bone problems can occur with prolonged calcium shortage, which causes a decrease in bone mass.
Rickets in children, osteomalacia (decreased bone calcium) in adults and osteoporosis (porous and fragile bones) can happen when calcium is withdrawn from bones faster than it is deposited. Fractures are more common with osteoporosis - nearly eight million yearly in the United States are related to this common nutritional shortage disease.
The typical American diet provides too much phosphorus and not enough calcium, resulting in reduced body storage of calcium; thus, many of the problems of calcium shortage discussed earlier may develop. Phosphorus and calcium can compete for absorption in the intestines. Higher consumption of meats or soft drinks increases phosphorus intake and may play a role in this imbalance. The ideal ratio of calcium to phosphorus in the diet is 1:1.
Recently, the increased consumption of soft drinks, which are buffered with phosphates, has become a concern. There might be up to 500 mg. of phosphorus each serving of a soft drink, with no calcium.
- Elson Haas M.D., Staying Healthy With Nutrition
High phosphorus content combines with high meat consumption to spell disaster
As the statement above describes, most Americans’ diets are too high in phosphorus to begin with. If you add diet soft drinks, your phosphorus consumption skyrockets.
This only increases losing calcium from bones and the following bone disorders that naturally result.
...One of the leading contributors to osteoporosis in the U.S. is carbonated soft drinks containing phosphorus. Studies show a direct link between too much phosphorus and calcium loss. If you are guzzling down a couple of fizzy soft drinks a day, you are most likely creating bone loss.
Our other source of excessive phosphorus in the U.S. is eating too much meat. The average American gets enough protein, so for many of us it can simply help to cut down on our meat consumption.
- Earl Mindell, Ph.D., Prescription Alternatives
Dr. James Balch, author of the A to Z Guide to Supplements, supports the same line of thinking:
The average American diet of meats, refined grains, and soft drinks (which are high in phosphorus) leads to increased excretion of calcium. Consuming alcoholic drinks, coffee, junk foods, excess salt, or white flour also leads to the loss of calcium by the body
- James F. Balch, M.D., A to Z Guide To Supplements
The meat link to excess dietary phosphorus is also well explained in The Doctor’s Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals:
Excess dietary phosphorus, present meat, soft drinks, grains, and potatoes, might promote bone loss by interfering with calcium balance. In theory, the higher your phosphorus intake, the greater your tendency to leech calcium out of bones, which could weaken the bony foundation beneath your gums.
Recommendation: ...try not to drink carbonated soft drinks, diet or otherwise.
As you can see, high-protein diets and soft drink consumption increase each other’s mineral imbalances.
Although keeping away from refined carbohydrates is a healthy way to lose weight, if people do not look into their calcium / phosphorus ratios, a few of their weight loss might be because of their loss of bone mass!
Calcium supplements alone will not solve this problem
You might think you could solve this problem by simply taking calcium supplements.
However, think again: the high consumption of phosphorus will make it hard for your body to absorb calcium. Phosphorus competes with calcium for absorption in the intestines, which means the more phosphorus you have in your diet, the less calcium you can absorb.
In this way, taking calcium supplements to “balance” the intake of diet soft drinks may not be nearly as effective as you hoped:
Should your diet contains an excess of phosphorus, from too much animal protein or too many carbonated soft drinks, you may fail to absorb calcium from the food as well as lose more calcium from your urine. Americans often eat more phosphorus than calcium, which looms large if you are at risk for bone thinning. ...Avoid carbonated soft drinks and yeast products.
- Mary Dan Eades, M.D., The Doctor’s Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals
Eventually, with enough bone loss and emptied calcium stores, bone fractures start to occur at a quickened rate.
This has been well showed in clinical studies of soft drink consumption, even in young adults whom typically have stronger bones compared to those who are older:
Significant calcium instability may come about because of high intakes of phosphorus. Phosphorus exists in high quantities in protein-containing foods and soft drinks. There is some evidence that because of the large increase in soft drinks in the last decade this reason alone may contribute to poor peak bone mass in younger individuals.
According to data from more than 4,000 children aged 2-17 years, soda consumption among children and adolescents rose 41 percent in the time of 1989-1991 compared to 1994-1995. A 1994 study of 127 children aged 8-16 discovered that 39 percent of the women and 41 percent of the boys had a history of bone fracture.
Women who consumed higher amounts of cola drinks had a greater chance of bone injuries than those who consumed low amounts. A high calcium intake was found to protect against fractures, especially among women who had high physical activity (Ballew et al. 2000).
- Disease Prevention and Treatment by the Life Extension Foundation
(If you noticed, this study also showed that high physical activity helped protect against bone fractures - something I have supported for years. The more physical you get every day, the stronger your bones.)
This study showed that calcium supplementation helped prevent bone fractures. It just makes sense: if you get more calcium, you will help balance out the ratios. However as the earlier quotes mentioned, to absorb this calcium may be seriously impaired by the excessive phosphorus. Therefore, the best strategy is to reduce phosphorus intake to balance the calcium / phosphorus ratio in your body.
In addition, the easiest way to do that is to simply avoid soft drinks for life.
Milk is not necessarily the answer to calcium shortage
Most people believe they are getting “lots of calcium” from all the milk they consume, and therefore, they think they can drink diet soft drinks without having to worry about the imbalance.
The more milk they drink, it is said, the more soft drinks they can safely consume.
This position is however misinformed. Milk does not have much calcium in it to begin with, regardless of the hype and promotional efforts of the dairy industry (that will be discussed in detail later). Just one cup of broccoli juice, for instance, has more calcium than a cup of milk. An ounce of spirulina (a microalgae super food) has far more calcium than milk, with magnesium and zinc as well.
Second, the calcium in milk is not well used by the human body unless magnesium and vitamin D are also present - and these two are typically lacking in the American diet.
Milk also plays a part in the phosphorus mineral imbalance because of its own high phosphorus and protein content:
Excessive protein - milk again, as well as meat - increases calcium loss. In addition, phosphates (in processed foods and soft drinks, common in the average child’s diet) can cause calcium loss or excretion.
-Robyn Landis, Herbal Defense
Supplementing with magnesium will help the body absorb more added calcium, and increased exposure to healthy, natural sunlight would increase vitamin D stores, but even so, there are better places to get calcium. Namely: whole food complexes and super foods like chlorella and spirulina.
Plant sources of calcium are clearly your best choice:
Get as much calcium and magnesium and other trace minerals from your diet as possible by ...eating dark leafy green vegetables, broccoli, nuts, and seeds; get rid of or lessen the use of colas and other soft drinks to decrease phosphorus intake.
Postmenopausal women probably should supplement with calcium or magnesium capsules.
Calcium citrate is better absorbed and used than calcium carbonate. Daily intakes should reach at least 1,000 mg of calcium and 500 mg of magnesium, with enough trace minerals including zinc, boron, and copper.
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
Soft drinks make you ugly by altering your facial bone structure
Consuming soft drinks can even alter your physical appearance by slowly damaging the bone structure of your face and jaw.
Most of the calcium loss that affects bones impacts on the dominating jawbone, which makes a person’s face look older, weak and sunken:
The differences between people who had consumed their ancestral diet from birth and people who had feasted on sugar, white flour products, and soft drinks are astonishing. The traditional nutritious diet plan produced broad faces with jaws wide enough to adapt all thirty-two teeth with proper spacing, high cheekbones, few to no cavitations, and wide foreheads to house their brains.
The facial frameworks of those whom enjoyed a more “civilized” diet are not so beautiful. Their jaws are narrow with the little room the teeth crowd together in two crooked rows. Cavities are normal, and in cultures where dental treatment is inadequate, the pain is intolerable.
Their foreheads are also narrow, or misshapen, with hardly enough space for a growing brain.
-Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers
The solution to whatever presented here is deceptively simple: drink water, not soft drinks. It is the only liquid I consume: no soft drinks, no juices, and no milk.
However many people simply refuse to drink water:
Americans do not drink much water. We drink coffee, a drink that brings more minerals out from the tissues and excretes them in the urine. Americans drink soft drinks that are often loaded with more sodium and that further imbalance the mineral stores. People drink V8, loaded with sodium. We drink everything but water, which could remove the excess sodium out of the blood and out of the brain.
We defeat the body’s own mechanism of balancing the critical sodium-to-potassium ratios by overindulging in these entrees and drinks containing so much sodium, and then by not drinking water to flush it out of the system.
-Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers
So how serious is this problem of calcium depletion and bone mass reduction firstly. It is a hidden, damaging health result that comes from drinking any soft drinks, and few people know about this.
The reality about caffeine, an addictive, psychoactive drug
Around sixty-five percent of all soft drinks sold have caffeine, and an average American drinks over 576 twelve-ounce cans of soft drinks every year.
-Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers
Beyond the bone ailments, mineral imbalances and osteoporosis problems mentioned in the section above, soft drinks do serve yet another dangerous ingredient: caffeine.
It is arguably the cheaper of the evils when thinking everything that goes into soft drinks, but caffeine also gives serious problems once consumed to excess. First, it is acidic and increases the mineral imbalances detailed in the previous section.
Most notably, however, caffeine is addictive. Soft drink manufacturers, in fact, depend on caffeine, which keeps people addicted to their products in the same way that cigarette manufacturers rely on nicotine for repeat sales. Caffeine causes it hard to “quit” soft drinks because your nervous system keeps telling you, “You need caffeine!”
However, indeed, you do not need caffeine, especially if you are fighting mineral depletion problems or osteoporosis.
This case is crucial for women:
If you are vulnerable to osteoporosis, lessen your intake of caffeine to not as much as two servings of coffee, tea, or caffeinated soft drinks everyday. If you already have osteoporosis, you should get rid of caffeine from your diet. This can include regular coffee and tea, chocolate, and many soft drinks (although carbonated drinks will already be on your list of things to avoid, as just noted).
Women that consume four to 15 caffeine-containing drinks everyday (coffee, tea, soft drinks, or chocolate) suffer PMS at higher rates than women whom drinking little caffeine. Recommendation: Reduce your daily caffeine intake to less than four caffeinated drinks a day.
Reduce your intake of caffeine even more strictly (to only two caffeine-containing drinks) at least three days before the usual time of symptoms each month.
- Mary Dan Eades, M.D., The Doctor’s Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals
There are, indeed, many health problems linked to the excess consumption of caffeine:
Caffeine is a concern for people with heart disease, because it raises the blood pressure and puts stress on the circulatory system. I tell my patients with angina to limit themselves to no more than to limit one caffeinated drink a day.
Most people opt for a cup of coffee each morning and cut out all extra coffee or caffeinated sodas or teas. I might point out here more than a few of the bottled iced teas and soft drinks (even “uncolas” like Mountain Dew) have much caffeine in them.
- Robert M. Giller, M.D., Natural Prescriptions
About caffeine, soft drinks are not the only concern, either.
Everyone is getting an overdose of caffeine from other sources regardless of whether they consume soft drinks:
Caffeine is obviously more prevalently used stimulant in the world. Coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, many soft drinks, diet pills, aspirin, various analgesics used for migraine headache and vascular pain, and even some herbal preparations contain either caffeine or even closely related substances.
Examples of such caffeine-like substances are theobromine in chocolate and cocoa and theophylline in tea.
When caffeine and similar substances are taken excessively, any of several symptoms usually result: anxiety and nervousness, insomnia or light sleep patterns, various types of heart disease, stomach and intestinal maladies, and moodiness.
Caffeine can be a lifetime drug for many. We start out with hot chocolate or chocolate bars, which contain some caffeine, move into colas or other soft drinks with caffeine, and then add coffee and tea. Many older people use caffeine everyday; however, this is slowly changing with knowledge and experience showing the long-range problems resulting from caffeine abuse.
Physiologically, caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant. The amount necessary to produce the wake-up and stimulation effect increases with regular use, as is typical of addictive drugs. Higher and more frequent doses are needed for a similar effect, and symptoms can produce if we do not get our “fix.”
Caffeine intake causes even more calcium loss
Even moderate caffeine intake has been linked to serious health problems like miscarriages, besides promoting yet more calcium loss.
From Food Additives:
Caffeine is the most recognized psychoactive drug. Gained as a by-product of caffeine-free coffee. It is a central nervous system, heart, and respiratory system stimulant. Caffeine can alter blood sugar discharge and cross the placental barrier. It can cause nervousness, insomnia, irregular heartbeat, noises in ears, and, in high doses, convulsions.
It has been linked to spontaneous panic attacks in anyone sensitive to caffeine. It has been found to be addictive. It also causes increases in calcium excretion. Because of its capability resulting in birth defects in rats, the FDA suggested controls to seek new safety studies and to encourage the make and sale of caffeine-free colas.
A University of Montreal
Overall, caffeine is not only the most often abused psychoactive drug in America ; it holds important a significant negative health risk as well.
Aluminum cans may present another health danger for soft drinks
The news on soft drinks keeps getting worse, it seems, and another toxin found in soft drinks isn’t something added by manufacturers: it’s something leaching out from the containers which soft drinks are stored and shipped: aluminum cans.
No intelligent person in his or her right mind would eat or drink aluminum, however almost everyone will happily drink acidic substances that have been rubbing molecules with aluminum for any number of days, weeks or months.
No metal is “100 percent solid,” as any physicist knows.
A few of the aluminum inevitably leeches into the soft drink itself.
Although aluminum is not a heavy metal, environmental exposure is frequent, resulting in concerns about accumulative effects and a potential connection with Alzheimer’s disease.
At home, we are in constant contact with aluminum in foods and in water; from cookware and soft drink cans; from consuming items with high levels of aluminum (e.g., antacids, buffered aspirin, or treated drinking water; or even by using nasal sprays, toothpaste, and antiperspirants).
- Disease Prevention and Treatment by the Life Extension Foundation
The ability of aluminum to contaminate drinks stored in aluminum cans is well explained by Elson Haas:
One of the most common sources of aluminum fluoride complexes is in liquids packaged in aluminum cans, a combination that is especially unsafe with acidic fruit juices and diet drinks. Acidic juices leaching aluminum from the wall of the can and spread out it throughout the juice. Soft drinks also present special hazards.
Although all soft drinks that contain fluoride will leach aluminum from the can, diet sodas might be worse than regular sodas because the fluoride content, at least in just one study, was higher in the diet drinks. Although most aluminum cans have inner linings, the coating might be defective and that can be fractured during shipping.
Besides, the longer a canned drink sits, especially at higher temperatures, the more aluminofluoride substance will be created in the drink. This would be a major consideration, for example, in the millions of diet soft drinks contributed to soldiers in the Persian Gulf . These drinks sat in the blasting temperature, over 105° F, for weeks.
In addition, the drinks contained the toxic sweetener, aspartame, which in the heat breaks down quickly into the carcinogenic compound, diketopiperizine, as well as formaldehyde and formic acid.
- Russell Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life
Soft drink manufacturers, of course, claim that their aluminum cans are safe.
However, they also claim that their high-sugar products do not cause obesity, either, and they staunchly protect the safety of aspartame.
Therefore, it is hard to lend credibility to anything claimed by soft drink manufacturers. Clearly, they are mainly interested in selling products, not in protecting the health of their customers. After all, sick customers do not demand refunds from soft drinks companies for their medical bills. Making people sick and promoting diseases as if osteoporosis has financial results to soft drink companies themselves.
The medical expenses of dealing with these diseases are fully shouldered by the customer.
Soft drink organizations rotate the technology to declare their products are harmless
There is some rotate coming out of the marketing divisions of smooth consume organizations.
Not amazingly, the smooth consume rotate device has contaminated all sorts of scientific-sounding groups and organizations whose employees unabashedly protect the smooth consume manufacturers:
Corporations also finance ‘’nonprofit research institutes” which provide “third celebration experts’’ to suggest on their behalf. The America Authorities on Science and Wellness (ACSH), for example, is a commonly used market front group that produces PR ammo for the meals processing and substance areas.
Headed by Elizabeth Whelan, ACSH regularly presents itself as an “independent,” “objective” technology institution.
This declares was dissected by Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post in the Goal 1990 Mexico Literature Review, which analyzed the special interests that finance ACSH.
Kurtz revealed that Whelan good remarks the healthy benefits of junk meals and gets cash from Hamburger King. She downplays the link between a high fat consuming plan and cardiovascular disease, while receiving funding from Oscar Mayer, Frito Lay and Land O’Lakes.
She protects saccharin and gets cash from Coca-Cola, Coke, NutraSweet and the Nationwide Soft Drink Association.
- John Stauber, Toxic Debris Is Excellent For You
Despite all the rotate efforts, it is recognized that sodas are unhealthy and not “wholesome drinks” as stated by smooth consume creators.
Yet, every time lawmaker efforts to ban sodas in schools, for example, or pass new “junk meals taxes” that would help suppress consumers from buying so many sodas, they are steamrolled by an apparently unbeatable governmental impact device.
The combined areas of meals producers, press entrepreneurs, and drug organizations, when taken as a whole, simply are not interested in making individuals healthier since that would cut out their profits.
Marion Nestle in Food Politics describes this trend:
Ethical or not, an idea to eat less various meats, milk products, and junk meals is not going to be well known among the producers of such meals.
The idea will not be well-known with livestock ranchers, various meats green bay packers, milk products producers, or milk products bottlers; oilseed gardeners, processor chips, or transporters; feed producers (most feed is used to feed cattle); creators of sodas, candy bars, and snack foods; entrepreneurs of fast-food sites and series restaurants; press organizations and marketing agencies; producers and marketers of TV sets and computers (where marketing takes place); and, eventually, drug and medical care areas likely to lose business if individuals stay healthier longer.
The variety of financial areas that would be impacted if individuals changed their diets, avoided being overweight, and avoided serious diseases surely competitors the variety of areas that would be impacted if individuals stopped cigarette smoking.
Perhaps because of this, USDA authorities believe that motivating individuals to follow dietary guidelines would be so expensive and troublesome to the farming economy to create impossible governmental limits.
Rather than recognizing the challenge and planning a serious national campaign to encourage more nutrition styles, they propose a more politically convenient solution: the market should work to improve the meals through vitamin ft and develop meals with added healthy value.
-Marion
To get an idea of the power of this governmental / financial device, look at the impact of just one player: big glucose organizations.
In 1991, 1,700 plants brought up sugarcane and 13,700 brought up glucose beets in the United States, but 42 % of the glucose financial support went to just 1 % of these gardeners. The entrepreneurs of these few plants give nicely to both governmental events.
The Fanjul family, for example, manages about one-third of Florida ’s sugarcane production and gathers at least $60 thousand yearly in financial support.
The Fanjuls contributed more than $350,000 to the two governmental events - more to Dems than to Conservatives - through their Flo-Sun organizations in 1997-1998. Alfonso Fanjul organized a dinner joined by President Bill Clinton that brought up more than a thousand dollars for the Florida Democratic celebration.
-Marion
Four easy actions to rebalance the vitamin material of your body
As you can see from all this, the risks to well-being from taking consuming plan sodas expands far beyond the artificial substance sweetener contained in those drinks.
You may have avoided the glucose, but you have not avoided the acidity of the drink. If you continue to consume these drinks, you will undoubtedly experience extra health repercussions in the lengthy run that you never intended. Now that you know about the risks of taking sodas, you are hopefully considering giving them up permanently.
To finally rid yourself of sodas forever, be sure to check out the report, “The Five Soft Drink Monsters”.
You may also wish to take the following actions to rebalance the vitamin material of your diet:
1. Supplement with calcium
Coral calcium vitamin is the ideal choice, but plant-derived calcium vitamin from dark vegetables is even better. The best source? Chlorella. Besides aiding with your calcium vitamin / phosphorus rate, extra calcium vitamin provides extra benefits.
Coral calcium vitamin is the ideal choice, but plant-derived calcium vitamin from dark vegetables is even better. The best source? Chlorella. Besides aiding with your calcium vitamin / phosphorus rate, extra calcium vitamin provides extra benefits.
2. Supplement with mineral magnesium to help your whole body better incorporate the extra calcium vitamin you are consuming. Most People in America are lacking in mineral magnesium. Best source? Once again, chlorella.
3. Get sunlight that is more organic
By revealing your epidermis to organic sunshine, without sunscreens (in control, of course), your whole body will naturally produce vast stores of Vitamin D, which is critical for the construction and maintenance of healthier bones. Without enough Vitamin D, your whole body cannot efficiently use the extra calcium vitamin you are taking. Also, by the way, the deeper your epidermis, the more sunshine you need to produce Vitamin D. This is one purpose why most America males of Africa nice are highly lacking in Vitamin D and experience from increasing rates of prostate cancer. To learn more about this, read “The Healing Sun: an interview with Dr. Eileen Holick.”
4. Engage in
physical exercise: both cardiovascular and durability training
These actions promote healthier cuboid tissue huge and
increase your cuboid tissue huge density, regardless of your age or gender.
Older women especially need to take part in weight coaching actions to combat
the hormone-related and age- relevant cuboid tissue vitamin inadequacies so
common in the community.
Source: Mike Adams study extracted from "Grocery Warning"
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