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Say No Coca-Cola !

Sunday, April 5, 2009 11:49:42 PM

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Today I decided to stop drink Coca-Cola and some other harmful to health soft drinks. Those soft drinks are: Coca-Cola, Diet Cola, Fanta, Soda, RC Cola and Pepsi. Why have I decided not to drink these products? Because of few reasons.
One of the reasons is harmfulness of those drinks. Without any doubts all those soft drinks are harmful to human's health.


According to research of several universities (including British University) all those drinks lead to the following diseases:

  • - Heart disease
  • - Obesity
  • - Tooth decay
  • - Cavities
  • - Bones' fragile
Also, excessive consume of those fizzy drinks may lead to heart attack, diabetes and strokes. There is about 20 spoon-fulls of sugar in each bottle of soft drink and even more in the drinks like Gator aid. That much sugar is not good for human's health and can make one become very overweight quite rapidly. "Diet" drinks with aspartame are even worse. Technically, if one is using any of the diet coke products to avoid the sugar of the original drink, it is like substituting one health evil not just for another, but for a greater one. Aspartame, one of ingredients of diet products is a dangerous chemical drug. Also, Coca-Cola, Britvic's Pepsi Max, Diet Pepsi and all diet drinks contain sodium benzoate, known as E-211. [/COLOR]

Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the £74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks such as Sprite, Oasis and Dr Pepper. It is also added to pickles and sauces.

Sodium benzoate has already been the subject of concern about cancer because when mixed with the additive vitamin C in soft drinks, it causes benzene, a carcinogenic substance. A Food Standards Agency survey of benzene in drinks last year found high levels in four brands which were removed from sale.
THE INDEPENDENT (UK newspaper)[/QUOTE][/SIZE]The whole post in reed more...

If you still don't believe, please buy next time you want to drink Coca-Cola Zero. When you finish it, just reed the ingredients of this drink. You'll see following:

  • Carbonated Water
  • Color : E-150d
  • Acesulfame-Potassium : E-950
  • Aspartame : E-951
  • Caffeine
  • Phosphoric Acid : E-338
  • Potassium Benzoate
  • Potassium Citrate
  • Sodium Benzoate : E-211
  • Sodium Citrate : E-331
  • Sodium Cyclamate : E-952
  • Natural flavors
I don't think you suppose that any of the above-listed ingredients are healthy for human :-) Even if you see "Natural flavors" - don't be so sure about it. You mean to tell me that a product which will not disclose its full ingredients and has been criticized from various health angles is using all truly natural flavors - I don’t think so.

In Conclusion

I used to judge everything by comparing both sides, in this case the sides are: Coca-Cola company and its opponents. Always there is a possibility that the resources about harmfulness of fizzy and soda soft drinks are trying to destroy the Coca-Cola company because of some not-known to me motives. However we have to understand that even if Coca-Cola's ingredients aren't harmful, they are exactly not healthy! So, I will better drink natural juices, or nectars instead fizzy and soda drinks. May be as exception I'll drink Sprite sometimes, but as says famous proverb: Too much water drowned the miller.

Resources:
Coca-Cola Wikipedia
The Independent (UK newspaper)
http://www.solarnavigator.net/solar_cola/coca_cola_zero.htm
http://diet-zone.org/2008/11/12/coca-cola-maybe-the-real-thing-but-definitely-not-the-healthy-thing.html

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