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Detrimental health effects of soda consumption revealed in new study
Detrimental health effects of soda consumption revealed in new study
The dirty little secret of the soda industry has just been
exposed by a huge new California study:
Drinking sodas leads to obesity,
and obesity leads to other deadly
diseases like heart disease,
cancer and diabetes.
Much like Big Tobacco once did with nicotine,
the soda industry and high-fructose corn syrup
producers of America have maintained a ridiculous state
of flat-out denial about the links between
soda consumption and obesity.
"Sodas don't make you fat," they insist.
Meanwhile, as Americans guzzle down insanely large
quantities of soda and liquid sugar with each passing year,
rates of obesity and diabetes continue to steadily climb.
Surely diet must have something to do with it, right?
Thanks to a new California study, soda companies can
no longer hide behind the defense of uncertainty when
it comes to links between soda consumption and obesity.
This massive study questioned the soda consumption habits
of 43,000 adults and 4,000 adolescents and concluded this:
Drinking one or more sodas a day increases
your chances of obesity by 27 percent.
A whopping 62% of adults who drink at least
one soda each day are overweight or obese.
The study also found that Californians are
gulping down sodas at an unprecedented rate:
At least one soda is consumed daily by 41 percent of children,
62 percent of adolescents and 24 percent of adults.
Through the study, another shocking statistic was revealed:
The average California teen consumes 39 pounds
of liquid sugar a year solely from soda consumption.
Sadly, the study didn't look at rates of diabetes and bone loss --
the phosphoric acid in sodas causes osteoporosis, even in males --
but there's little doubt that a similar correlation exists
between soda consumption and those diseases, too.
The whole issue of aspartame and diet
sodas also wasn't looked at in this study,
but that's yet another important area of investigation
that will probably be delayed for many years until the
number of people drinking diet soda who get diagnosed
with brain cancer can no longer be denied.
We've been warning about this for years
The interesting thing about all this is that the champions of
natural health have been warning society about this for years.
Whether you're talking about myself and NaturalNews,
or Dr. Julian Whitaker, or even going back to Weston Price,
we've all been shouting about the dangers
of widespread cola consumption
long before it appeared on the radar
of mainstream consciousness.
Now, in the thick of a disastrous epidemic of obesity and diabetes,
more mainstream health authorities are finally starting to put the
pieces together and realize just how bad sodas are for public health.
There's now no question about it:
When soda consumption goes up, so do rates of obesity.
And with higher obesity rates, you automatically get
greatly increased rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease,
depression and other diseases that are very expensive to treat.
Ultimately, that means that soda consumption greatly increases the
health care costs of any nation, because higher soda consumption
leads to higher rates of diseases that are expensive to treat.
I'm guessing that for every dollar a consumer spends on soda,
another dollar's worth of long-term health care
cost is created at the same time.
Except those costs are paid directly by the consumer;
they're paid by the taxpayers and health insurance customers.
That's why reforming health care necessarily
requires doing something drastic to reduce soda
consumption across first-world nations.
You can't have both affordable health
care and a nation full of soda guzzlers.
How to reduce soda consumption
Greatly reducing the consumption of sodas is easier than you think.
It just takes some political backbone... and a willingness for politicians
to stop pussyfooting around with the issue in an effort to please the rich,
powerful soft drink corporations.
It's time to start treating soft drink companies as what they truly are:
The enemies of public health and financial parasites that drain public
coffers through increased health care costs caused by their products.
Their ads promise happiness, but their products deliver disease.
The first step to reducing soft drink
consumption is to ban all soda advertising.
In fact, that might be the only step that's necessary.
Simply reveal that sodas are a clear and
scientifically-proven hazard to public health,
and declare that in order to protect our nation's youth,
products that pose a clear and imminent hazard to public
health will no longer be allowed to be advertised in any form:
Not on television, magazines,
sporting events or even through Internet advertising.
They are still free to have their own websites, of course,
where they can describe their products.
They just can't advertise on someone else's website.
But what about free speech?
Doesn't the U.S. Constitution guarantee free speech for all individuals?
Indeed, it does, but in my opinion -- and I know that far better-informed
Constitutional lawyers would probably disagree with me on this --
there's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees
freedom of speech to corporations.
That "right" has been invented through a loose
interpretation of what the Constitution really says.
I don't believe that corporations should have the same rights
as individuals, because the free speech of one person is all too
often completely drowned out by the "free speech" of a multi-billion
dollar corporation that can buy virtually unlimited air time on television.
Can't we just tax sodas instead?
Another popular suggestion is to tax the heck out of sodas,
thereby making them more expensive in order
to discourage consumers from buying them.
If you believe in levying new taxes on the poor,
this is a great idea,
because poor people buy and consume
far more soda than wealthy people,
making a "soda tax" largely a tax on the poor.
I strongly disagree with the idea of using
new taxes to shape consumer behavior.
Why?
Because the current tangle of government taxes
and subsidies is so complex and confusing that it
has long since lost any attachment to common sense.
For example, there are currently subsidies on sugar and corn.
Yet one of the sweeteners used in soft drinks is
high-fructose corn syrup, which is derived from corn.
If a new soda tax passes,
it means our government would simultaneously be in
the business of providing subsidies to corn while taxing
another product that uses an ingredient derived from corn.
The overhead of tracking and collecting all these
taxes is an enormous waste of government resources.
It's far better to just deny these soda companies
the ability to use the media to influence teens and
adults into buying and consuming their products.
With no advertising, soda consumption would plummet,
and the obesity epidemic would begin to turn around.
Health care costs would ease and we'd be on our way
to a healthier generation of future adults in America.
The mainstream media: Running on disease
The mainstream media, of course, would have a tissy fit with this idea.
A significant portion of their advertising revenues come directly from
companies that sell sodas and sugary drinks, putting them in the
business of promoting products that directly harm children and teens.
But that's business, and the media doesn't feel any
special responsibility to protect people from dangerous
products that just happen to be paying their salaries.
That's why they'll openly advertise dangerous,
deadly pharmaceuticals designed to treat the very
diseases caused by other products they advertise,
like junk foods and soda.
There's a lot of money to be made from
selling harmful products the people,
and just like everybody else,
the mainstream media wants its piece of the action.
If you ban the advertising of harmful foods and beverages,
many newspapers, magazines and
television shows would collapse in weeks.
It is precisely the advertising expenditures of high-margin
junk product companies that keep the media afloat.
Never forget that... especially when you're reading
an article about sodas in the mainstream media.
Choose one: Children or corporations
At some point, America has to make a decision:
Do we, as a nation, continue to sacrifice the health of our children
in order to keep our powerful corporations flush with cash?
Or do we sacrifice the profits of powerful corporations
in order to save the health of our children?
That's really the only choice we have on this issue.
We cannot protect both children's health and the profits
of the corporations selling products that harm them.
Right now, the status quo has chosen to sacrifice
the children in order to protect the corporations.
That has been the stance of the FDA, Senators,
Congressmen (and women) and even the mainstream media.
To heck with the children, they say.
We've got to keep this economy running,
even if it means selling poison to our kids!
That's a stupid, short-sighted stance.
But it's business as usual in America today:
Sacrifice the future in order to create the illusion of wealth in the present.
But even if all these soda-pumping corporations continue to
rake in more profits, is the nation really economically better off?
I think not.
The long-term health care costs of treating diseases caused by
soda consumption equal or outweigh any short-term benefits
derived from the economic activity of selling sodas.
While it may seem like a net gain in this fiscal year,
in the long haul it's a net loss to the nation.
When our political leaders begin to demonstrate an
understanding of those concepts -- and they begin to act
in accordance with the long-term interests of the nation --
we might have a future that can be salvaged
out of the health care mess that exists now.
We can, of course, turn this nation around and eliminate
virtually all obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and
other chronic degenerate diseases, but doing that will
require making courageous decisions that directly
violate the profiteering interests of some of
the most powerful corporations in the world.
This will likely never happen.
Poisoning children generates far too much profit to see it stopped.
The media makes money, the politicians get campaign
contributions that keep them in office, and the corporations selling
their harmful products get to pocket obscene profits from doing so.
And so we end up with a nation of fat children and fat-cat adults
who rake in the profits from soda companies even while wondering
why their own kids have diabetes and can't concentrate in school.
If it weren't so sad, the whole thing would be truly laughable.
We are doing this to ourselves.
We are poisoning our own children and calling it "profitable."
And We the People of the United States of America
continue to let this happen, day after day, year after year,
even as we go bankrupt from the whole sickening charade.
I have a message for every newspaper, television station,
sporting event and website that accepts advertising from
soda companies: You are part of the problem!
By agreeing to promote these products that directly harm the health
of your readers, you are promoting a culture of disease and death.
Greed is powerful in the western world,
and it often overshadows compassion.
In a world where compassion took precedence over greed,
no one would dare advertise sodas and sugary drinks.
But we don't live in that world;
we live in the world of ingrained American
greed and blatant pass-the-buckishness.
Some of the wealthiest people in the world have accumulated that
wealth primarily by pushing products that harm or kill children.
It's true for Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and the junk food giants, too.
Sources for this story include:
LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/boo...
California Center for Public Health Advocacy:
http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org
The inside story reveals on what this study found
and why the mainstream media continues to
advertise these harmful products to children.
Read it all right here:
The worst health effects from drinking soda aren't merely from the
huge quantities of liquid sugar that promote obesity and diabetes;
they're also from the highly acidic phosphoric acid
found in carbonated soft drinks.
The acidity is so high in these drinks that you would have to drink
at least eight full glasses of fresh vegetable juice to neutralize it.
That's why drinking sodas strips your bones of minerals --
it's a strategy for your body to buffer the acid.
So, here's the moral of this story, take heed,
stay away from those dangerous soft drinks...
drink healthy non-polluted water derived from
Multi-Pure's highly efficient Water Filter Systems.
See them here at:
www.PreciousWatersUSA.com
Norbert M. Scholz
Independent Distributor for Multi-Pure
ID: 423831
Skype ID: preciouswaters
Email: PreciousWater@aol.com
1-800-210-9365 OR (386) 246-3272
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The dirty little secret of the soda industry has just been
exposed by a huge new California study:
Drinking sodas leads to obesity,
and obesity leads to other deadly
diseases like heart disease,
cancer and diabetes.
Much like Big Tobacco once did with nicotine,
the soda industry and high-fructose corn syrup
producers of America have maintained a ridiculous state
of flat-out denial about the links between
soda consumption and obesity.
"Sodas don't make you fat," they insist.
Meanwhile, as Americans guzzle down insanely large
quantities of soda and liquid sugar with each passing year,
rates of obesity and diabetes continue to steadily climb.
Surely diet must have something to do with it, right?
Thanks to a new California study, soda companies can
no longer hide behind the defense of uncertainty when
it comes to links between soda consumption and obesity.
This massive study questioned the soda consumption habits
of 43,000 adults and 4,000 adolescents and concluded this:
Drinking one or more sodas a day increases
your chances of obesity by 27 percent.
A whopping 62% of adults who drink at least
one soda each day are overweight or obese.
The study also found that Californians are
gulping down sodas at an unprecedented rate:
At least one soda is consumed daily by 41 percent of children,
62 percent of adolescents and 24 percent of adults.
Through the study, another shocking statistic was revealed:
The average California teen consumes 39 pounds
of liquid sugar a year solely from soda consumption.
Sadly, the study didn't look at rates of diabetes and bone loss --
the phosphoric acid in sodas causes osteoporosis, even in males --
but there's little doubt that a similar correlation exists
between soda consumption and those diseases, too.
The whole issue of aspartame and diet
sodas also wasn't looked at in this study,
but that's yet another important area of investigation
that will probably be delayed for many years until the
number of people drinking diet soda who get diagnosed
with brain cancer can no longer be denied.
We've been warning about this for years
The interesting thing about all this is that the champions of
natural health have been warning society about this for years.
Whether you're talking about myself and NaturalNews,
or Dr. Julian Whitaker, or even going back to Weston Price,
we've all been shouting about the dangers
of widespread cola consumption
long before it appeared on the radar
of mainstream consciousness.
Now, in the thick of a disastrous epidemic of obesity and diabetes,
more mainstream health authorities are finally starting to put the
pieces together and realize just how bad sodas are for public health.
There's now no question about it:
When soda consumption goes up, so do rates of obesity.
And with higher obesity rates, you automatically get
greatly increased rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease,
depression and other diseases that are very expensive to treat.
Ultimately, that means that soda consumption greatly increases the
health care costs of any nation, because higher soda consumption
leads to higher rates of diseases that are expensive to treat.
I'm guessing that for every dollar a consumer spends on soda,
another dollar's worth of long-term health care
cost is created at the same time.
Except those costs are paid directly by the consumer;
they're paid by the taxpayers and health insurance customers.
That's why reforming health care necessarily
requires doing something drastic to reduce soda
consumption across first-world nations.
You can't have both affordable health
care and a nation full of soda guzzlers.
How to reduce soda consumption
Greatly reducing the consumption of sodas is easier than you think.
It just takes some political backbone... and a willingness for politicians
to stop pussyfooting around with the issue in an effort to please the rich,
powerful soft drink corporations.
It's time to start treating soft drink companies as what they truly are:
The enemies of public health and financial parasites that drain public
coffers through increased health care costs caused by their products.
Their ads promise happiness, but their products deliver disease.
The first step to reducing soft drink
consumption is to ban all soda advertising.
In fact, that might be the only step that's necessary.
Simply reveal that sodas are a clear and
scientifically-proven hazard to public health,
and declare that in order to protect our nation's youth,
products that pose a clear and imminent hazard to public
health will no longer be allowed to be advertised in any form:
Not on television, magazines,
sporting events or even through Internet advertising.
They are still free to have their own websites, of course,
where they can describe their products.
They just can't advertise on someone else's website.
But what about free speech?
Doesn't the U.S. Constitution guarantee free speech for all individuals?
Indeed, it does, but in my opinion -- and I know that far better-informed
Constitutional lawyers would probably disagree with me on this --
there's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees
freedom of speech to corporations.
That "right" has been invented through a loose
interpretation of what the Constitution really says.
I don't believe that corporations should have the same rights
as individuals, because the free speech of one person is all too
often completely drowned out by the "free speech" of a multi-billion
dollar corporation that can buy virtually unlimited air time on television.
Can't we just tax sodas instead?
Another popular suggestion is to tax the heck out of sodas,
thereby making them more expensive in order
to discourage consumers from buying them.
If you believe in levying new taxes on the poor,
this is a great idea,
because poor people buy and consume
far more soda than wealthy people,
making a "soda tax" largely a tax on the poor.
I strongly disagree with the idea of using
new taxes to shape consumer behavior.
Why?
Because the current tangle of government taxes
and subsidies is so complex and confusing that it
has long since lost any attachment to common sense.
For example, there are currently subsidies on sugar and corn.
Yet one of the sweeteners used in soft drinks is
high-fructose corn syrup, which is derived from corn.
If a new soda tax passes,
it means our government would simultaneously be in
the business of providing subsidies to corn while taxing
another product that uses an ingredient derived from corn.
The overhead of tracking and collecting all these
taxes is an enormous waste of government resources.
It's far better to just deny these soda companies
the ability to use the media to influence teens and
adults into buying and consuming their products.
With no advertising, soda consumption would plummet,
and the obesity epidemic would begin to turn around.
Health care costs would ease and we'd be on our way
to a healthier generation of future adults in America.
The mainstream media: Running on disease
The mainstream media, of course, would have a tissy fit with this idea.
A significant portion of their advertising revenues come directly from
companies that sell sodas and sugary drinks, putting them in the
business of promoting products that directly harm children and teens.
But that's business, and the media doesn't feel any
special responsibility to protect people from dangerous
products that just happen to be paying their salaries.
That's why they'll openly advertise dangerous,
deadly pharmaceuticals designed to treat the very
diseases caused by other products they advertise,
like junk foods and soda.
There's a lot of money to be made from
selling harmful products the people,
and just like everybody else,
the mainstream media wants its piece of the action.
If you ban the advertising of harmful foods and beverages,
many newspapers, magazines and
television shows would collapse in weeks.
It is precisely the advertising expenditures of high-margin
junk product companies that keep the media afloat.
Never forget that... especially when you're reading
an article about sodas in the mainstream media.
Choose one: Children or corporations
At some point, America has to make a decision:
Do we, as a nation, continue to sacrifice the health of our children
in order to keep our powerful corporations flush with cash?
Or do we sacrifice the profits of powerful corporations
in order to save the health of our children?
That's really the only choice we have on this issue.
We cannot protect both children's health and the profits
of the corporations selling products that harm them.
Right now, the status quo has chosen to sacrifice
the children in order to protect the corporations.
That has been the stance of the FDA, Senators,
Congressmen (and women) and even the mainstream media.
To heck with the children, they say.
We've got to keep this economy running,
even if it means selling poison to our kids!
That's a stupid, short-sighted stance.
But it's business as usual in America today:
Sacrifice the future in order to create the illusion of wealth in the present.
But even if all these soda-pumping corporations continue to
rake in more profits, is the nation really economically better off?
I think not.
The long-term health care costs of treating diseases caused by
soda consumption equal or outweigh any short-term benefits
derived from the economic activity of selling sodas.
While it may seem like a net gain in this fiscal year,
in the long haul it's a net loss to the nation.
When our political leaders begin to demonstrate an
understanding of those concepts -- and they begin to act
in accordance with the long-term interests of the nation --
we might have a future that can be salvaged
out of the health care mess that exists now.
We can, of course, turn this nation around and eliminate
virtually all obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and
other chronic degenerate diseases, but doing that will
require making courageous decisions that directly
violate the profiteering interests of some of
the most powerful corporations in the world.
This will likely never happen.
Poisoning children generates far too much profit to see it stopped.
The media makes money, the politicians get campaign
contributions that keep them in office, and the corporations selling
their harmful products get to pocket obscene profits from doing so.
And so we end up with a nation of fat children and fat-cat adults
who rake in the profits from soda companies even while wondering
why their own kids have diabetes and can't concentrate in school.
If it weren't so sad, the whole thing would be truly laughable.
We are doing this to ourselves.
We are poisoning our own children and calling it "profitable."
And We the People of the United States of America
continue to let this happen, day after day, year after year,
even as we go bankrupt from the whole sickening charade.
I have a message for every newspaper, television station,
sporting event and website that accepts advertising from
soda companies: You are part of the problem!
By agreeing to promote these products that directly harm the health
of your readers, you are promoting a culture of disease and death.
Greed is powerful in the western world,
and it often overshadows compassion.
In a world where compassion took precedence over greed,
no one would dare advertise sodas and sugary drinks.
But we don't live in that world;
we live in the world of ingrained American
greed and blatant pass-the-buckishness.
Some of the wealthiest people in the world have accumulated that
wealth primarily by pushing products that harm or kill children.
It's true for Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and the junk food giants, too.
Sources for this story include:
LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/boo...
California Center for Public Health Advocacy:
http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org
The inside story reveals on what this study found
and why the mainstream media continues to
advertise these harmful products to children.
Read it all right here:
The worst health effects from drinking soda aren't merely from the
huge quantities of liquid sugar that promote obesity and diabetes;
they're also from the highly acidic phosphoric acid
found in carbonated soft drinks.
The acidity is so high in these drinks that you would have to drink
at least eight full glasses of fresh vegetable juice to neutralize it.
That's why drinking sodas strips your bones of minerals --
it's a strategy for your body to buffer the acid.
So, here's the moral of this story, take heed,
stay away from those dangerous soft drinks...
drink healthy non-polluted water derived from
Multi-Pure's highly efficient Water Filter Systems.
See them here at:
www.PreciousWatersUSA.com
Norbert M. Scholz
Independent Distributor for Multi-Pure
ID: 423831
Skype ID: preciouswaters
Email: PreciousWater@aol.com
1-800-210-9365 OR (386) 246-3272
Tags: Advertising, Health, Health care, High-fructose corn syrup, Julian Whitaker, Obesity, Soft drink, United States
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