So, we all know that companies are put together to make money right... but do we really really understand how far some will take it to continue to make money? I am always teaching my clients to analyze what they hear and research things that they put into their body...question everything--even what I tell them. Why? Because our food supply really is messed up and the food companies are out of control. They are, in my opinion, slowly poisoning us, making a lot of money doing so and just denying the hell out of all of it. I see it every day...and so do you if you learn to look for it. So why don't we do something about it? Because we are being fed a line of marking crap EVERY SINGLE DAY making us complacent...urging us to just trust those nice folks at the food and drug companies.
Here is why we can't trust, why we have to wake up:
Most people, but particularly holistic practitioners have realized the dangers of Diet soda for years and years.
The artificial sweetener hikes food cravings and poisons the neurological system and kills your metabolism. The carbonation and acidity threaten bone density, and the "no-calorie" appeal makes it one of the most over-consumed junk foods in history.
Finally, even the main-stream news shows are unable to ignore the threat of this "food".
A recent ABC news report tells of some of the dangers of diet soda. You can watch the clip at:http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com
The report tells us that companies sell over $21 billion/year on Diet Sodas! Yes, Billion!
When asked to comment on recent studies pointing to the danger of over-consuming diet sodas (now, mind you, I would rather my clients drink regular soda than ANY diet soda so the newscast is cutting a break by adding the term "over-consumption" to the question), Coca Cola sent an official respose:
"Great taste. No Calories.
Wholesome Ingredients.
How could you drink too much."
Diana Garza
Communications Director
Coca-Cola North America
I'm sorry, I just threw up a little in my mouth. Are you kidding me? Wholesome ingredients?
So, I figure that I will post list of all of those wholesome ingredients:
High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sucrose, Water, Caramel Color, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavors, Caffeine.
Yummmy...if only we could have a little more wholesome High-Fructose corn syrup in our America diets. What??? You say that HFCS is the NUMBER ONE ADDED INGREDIENT IN PROCESSED AMERICAN FOODS???!!! Thank god! Im feeling more wholesome already...although I certainly can see how these wholesome food ingredients might explain the ridiculous spike in adult onset diabetes amongst 6-year-olds. Perhaps we should come out with a wholesome Diet Coke baby formula...get us off to a great start from infancy!
Ok, I'm going to get off of it now and leave you with just one simple request: LEARN ABOUT YOUR BODY AND ABOUT WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT. Unfortunately, we just can't trust the companies or government to be straight with us on it...they have billions riding on us continuing to buy into their garbage.
Even after EVERYONE knows that cigarrettes kill people, are the companies even admitting to it? NO NO NO. How much proof will we have to have to make food companies admit that the things we are doing to our food is causing chronic fatigue, diabetes and cancer? Who cares? You don't need them to admit to it, you just need to know the truth and buy accordingly...then you don't have to worry about buying a load of crap because you, your family and friends will be living great, healthy lives without their processed trash.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Diet Coke Nation.
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About the HFCS--
Every now and again I hear or read something about how bad that stuff is. But so many people don't realize it's in almost everything from ketchup to pudding to "ginger ale". Unless you buy the organic version (which I do). If we attacked this junk the way the American Heart Association goes after eggs and butter, I think people would lose a few pounds without really trying.
The human body isn't designed for all of this beverage consumption anyway. Other than mother's milk for the first few years of life and then water after that, humans didn't evolve to receive calories from beverages. We've done ok with beer and wine for the last few thousand years, but the 20th century has really screwed things up.
HFCS isn't actually in the Diet versions of sodas, but the no-cal sweeteners are not blameless. Who knows the effects that we'll see from these things 50 years from now?
If you like fizz, it's so easy to make a drink from some juice (not a lot) diluted with mineral water. Yes there's a bit of sugar there, but at least it's not some engineered corn sugar that doesn't even let your body have the normal response it's supposed to have when you've consumed something sweet. The one that let's you know that you're satisfied and it's time to move on to something besides filling your piehole with calories.
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