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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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2 Gallons of Coke per day? I don't even drink 1 gallon of anything. In fact, I don't drink much more than a half gallon a day. With anything, the key is to use moderation. I might have a soda every now and then, but I certainly don't consume it everyday and usually go weeks between having any. My main beverage is filtered water. I agree, balance is important. I use distilled water where I am because there is considerable toxic risk of the well water here. I probably have a soda or two a year--depending on circumstances. It's a much better beverage to accept than beer when I'm in the community! Blessings, Green Cochoa.
We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self. We can discern the character of God, and accept Christ by faith, only as we consent to the bringing into captivity of every thought to the obedience of Christ. And to all who do this, the Holy Spirit is given without measure. In Christ "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him." [Colossians 2:9, 10.] {GW 57.1} -- Ellen White.
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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I'm a little confused if someone takes the caution of drinking filtered water why would they ever drink sodas. I'm just trying to understand here.
Are you saying sodas are made using unfiltered water?  Like "filtered" cigarettes?!
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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2 Gallons of Coke per day? I don't even drink 1 gallon of anything. In fact, I don't drink much more than a half gallon a day. With anything, the key is to use moderation. I might have a soda every now and then, but I certainly don't consume it everyday and usually go weeks between having any. My main beverage is filtered water. I agree, balance is important. I use distilled water where I am because there is considerable toxic risk of the well water here. I probably have a soda or two a year--depending on circumstances. It's a much better beverage to accept than beer when I'm in the community! Blessings, Green Cochoa. In Central America years back, we could not drink the water and the only bottled liquid available was either liquor or soda. Guess which one we drank........
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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In Central America years back, we could not drink the water and the only bottled liquid available was either liquor or soda. Guess which one we drank........ It wasn't too far back that in much of the world, the safest thing one could drink was alcohol. Even children would drink alcohol with their parents' full approval rather than risk catching a deadly disease such as dysentery or cholera or all manner of parasites through the water supply.
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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California Senator Proposes Bill for Labels on Soda Warning of Obesity, Diabetes and Tooth Decay
by PF Louis
(NaturalNews) California State Senator Bill Monning (D-Carmel) and others are proposing legislation that would require warning labels on sodas and juices with added sugars. The California State warning would include this phrase: "Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay."
Senator Monning stated in a news conference, "When the science is this conclusive, the state of California has a responsibility to take steps to protect consumers." The warning label is similar to what goes on cigarette packages and is intended to leave the consumer responsible for his or her decision after seeing the label.
One commenter on the LA Times article announcing this proposed legislation lamented that politicians have to do these things instead of medical authorities. Let's see, medical authority, oh yes, the FDA. The ones who have more adverse effect reports of aspartame in their files than any other food item, which are ignored while aspartame remains on the market as GRAS (generally recognized as safe) without any warnings. Right, the medical authorities.
Substances proven to be dangerous should be banned -- period. One medical authority in Venezuela did that. The Health Minister removed Coke Zero from the shelves, removed as in banned. Exactly why is confused by earlier reports. We all know that diet cokes contain harmful excitoxic sweeteners.
But exactly which one in Coke Zero drew the Health Minister's attention has been muddied by the mainstream's ignorance of excitotoxins and the history of how the FDA's approval of aspartame was manipulated politically.
The mainstream media preferred to paint the ban as a socialist stance on capitalism, you know, the free enterprise angle. That gets all the corporate serfs and corporate CEO wanna-be libertarians pumped up about how the commies are out to kill capitalism. One sarcastically wonders how much banning GMOs should be considered anti-free-market ideology.
It's unfortunate that many "free market" and libertarian types have been duped by the "corporations as individuals" fraud. Redefining issues with new wording gets the realities confused, and economic theory attachments sadly trump survival realities. Before the Civil War, corporations did not have all this power.
Corporations before they morphed into international monarchies
Up until the post-Civil War era, corporations had to be reviewed and granted a charter that detailed the approved activity in which they could operate for a specific period, say 10 years or so. The charter could be dissolved if the corporation's activity went outside the charter's allowance or if public or environmental harm was caused by that corporation.
Charter dissolution meant that they were done, over, and what remained of value was left for the shareholders to divide among themselves.
Corporations during those times were not allowed to influence political decisions, even with campaign contributions on a party level. Corporate individuals could be held responsible for corporate crimes or misdeeds according to their level of complicity.
If they became conglomerates and trusts, they could have their charter revoked for exceeding their charter's defined activity.
The major issue of corporate personhood was established as implied precedence by a Supreme Court decision in 1886. The case was between Santa Clara County and Southern Pacific Railroad.
From then on, the 14th Amendment, originally intended to protect the citizen privileges and liberties of freed slaves and ex-confederates, was used and manipulated under the false "personhood" of corporations, allowing them to evolve as ruthless dynasties.
The USA is neither a democracy nor a republic. It is an oligarchy. A handful of corporate leaders have the wealth and wherewithal to control us and destroy the environment while harming our health with impunity. Any group of citizens should have the power to completely ban proven dangerous corporate products or processes.
There's more on the corporate personhood issue at ReclaimDemocracy.org.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.latimes.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://reclaimdemocracy.org
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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It's Not Just the Sugar That Destroys Your Teeth: Carbonated Beverages Are All Made With Acid
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) By definition, a carbonated beverage is a liquid that has had carbon dioxide gas dissolved into it. This gas produces the fizzy bubbles that have made such beverages so wildly popular.
Yet, a side effect of forcing carbon dioxide gas into a beverage is that some of the carbon dioxide will react with water to form carbonic acid. This acid is responsible for the characteristic "bite" of most sodas, and its absence is part of the reason that flat sodas taste so different.
In addition to the naturally occurring carbonic acid, colas including Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola are made with added phosphoric acid.
No matter how low the concentration, it's not a good idea to drink acidic beverages too frequently. Of people who drink carbonated beverages regularly, this acid gradually wears down the enamel of their teeth and leave them vulnerable to tooth decay.
Combined with the high quantities of sugar found in many carbonated drinks, the effect is obviously devastating. Yet, even if all you drink is diet soda, you're still stripping your teeth's defenses away.
Sources:
http://www.ehow.com
http://www.healthyyounaturally.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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Diet Soda, Aspartame Linked To Premature Deaths In Women
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) A decade-long study of 60,000 women has confirmed that drinking diet soda sweetened with aspartame is linked with a 30 percent increase in heart attack risk and a 50 percent increase in death risk.
The findings, presented at the American College of Cardiology(1), have already been partially swept under the rug with the false explanation that diet drinks don't necessarily cause these risks but are instead merely correlated with them. "Women who toss back too many diet sodas may be trying to make up for unhealthy habits," claims an article on CNBC,(2) while citing no evidence whatsoever to support the claim. Keep in mind that any time a synthetic vitamin is correlated with increased mortality, the entire scientific community immediately describes those synthetic vitamins as "causing" death. Correlation is causation only when industry-funded scientists say it is.
Aspartame is a neurotoxin
What scientists refuse to explore -- even when the data clearly show a strong death risk association -- is that aspartame is a neurotoxin. The reason why women who drink diet soda have a 50 percent increased death risk is, of course, far more likely to be caused by what's in the diet soda rather than some lifestyle choice.
Aspartame, after all, is made from the feces of genetically engineered bacteria. It is not a natural sugar but rather a chemical compound created in an industrial lab. Used in diet sodas, it breaks down into a number of chemical compounds including formaldehyde and methanol. During digestion, the formaldehyde is oxidized into formic acid, a chemical known to cause toxicity in mammalian biology. Formic acid is also secreted by ants as part of their "chemical weapons" arsenal.
Aspartame linked to long list of neurological problems
Aspartame denialists try to pretend that all this formaldehyde, methanol and formic acid has no effect on human health. Their argument is identical to that of GMO denialists: "GMOs are harmless!" It's even the same argument as mercury denialists: "Mercury is harmless!"
Why, then, is aspartame so frequently linked to blurred vision, headaches and neurological problems when repeatedly consumed in the form of diet drinks? In fact, there are over 90 side effects linked to aspartame consumption, including headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, rashes, depression, irritability, insomnia, hearing loss, vision problems, loss of taste vertigo and memory loss.
Soda companies and misinformed doctors all try to pretend none of these side effects are real -- that people are all imagining headaches, blurred vision, numbness, insomnia and so on. That's how unethical the soda industry is: they poison their own customers with a neurotoxic chemical, then call them delusional when they suffer neurological side effects.
If you drink diet soda, you are murdering yourself
The bottom line in all this? If you drink diet soda, you are essentially murdering yourself. Call it "slow suicide."
There are a thousand beverages healthier than diet sodas: tea, fruit juice, mineral water, raw almond milk... even non-diet sodas are better for you than diet sodas! (And diet sodas have been conclusively proven to have no effect whatsoever on weight loss. So drinking them is a useless diet gesture to begin with.)
If for some reason you are still drinking diet soda, find a healthier beverage and stop poisoning yourself to death.
From the American College of Cardiology website:
[A] study led by Ankur Vyas, MD, of the University of Iowa found that postmenopausal women who consumed two or more diet drinks a day were 30 percent more likely to experience a cardiovascular event and 50 percent more likely to die from related cardiovascular disease than women who never, or only rarely, consumed diet drinks. The analysis of 59,614 participants in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, who had an average age of 62.8 and no history of cardiovascular disease, saw that after an average follow-up of 8.7 years, the primary cardiovascular outcome occurred in 8.5 percent of the women consuming two or more diet drinks per day compared to 6.9 percent in the five-to-seven drinks per week group; 6.8 percent in the one-to-four drinks per week group; and 7.2 percent in the zero-to-three per month group. The difference persisted when researchers adjusted for other cardiovascular risk factors and co-morbidities. The association between diet drinks and cardiovascular disease warrants further study to define the relationship, Vyas said.
Sources for this article include:
1) http://www.cardiosource.org/en/News-Media/Pu...
2) http://www.cnbc.com/id/101536768
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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04/03/14 11:23 PM
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The Down Side Of Diet Soda
by Mayimina
(NaturalNews) Diet soda was, for a long time, touted almost as a cure-all for those people who love to drink these fizzy, sparkling, bubbly beverages to do so nearly without guilt. With diet sodas that offer their sweetened liquid without all the weight-producing calories, people could continue to drink to their heart's content without worrying about gaining weight or harming their teeth and bones. The advent of diet soda meant that Americans, who, on average, drink around two cans of soda each day, did not have to kick their soda habit after all. Diet soda, however, did not end up being the cure that people had hoped it would be.
Not good for kidneys
Many people do not realize the harm they are potentially doing to their kidneys. In fact, a Harvard Medical School study that followed 3,000 women over the course of 11 years found that a decline in kidney function is associated with drinking soda. When women drank more than two sodas each day, their kidneys showed a decline. This decline had not been seen when regular soda was consumed, so researchers concluded that the artificial sweeteners must be responsible.
Increases metabolic syndrome
Metabolic syndrome involves a group of symptoms that are associated with heart disease. These include high cholesterol and belly fat. A University of Wisconsin study from 2008 found that the risk of such symptoms jumped to 34% for diet soda consumers. While researchers were not able to pinpoint whether this jump was the result of the drinking habits of the study's participants or an ingredient in the diet soda, these results are sobering, given the fact that many people drink diet sodas to avoid extra weight gain.
Could cause weight gain
This drawback will likely be a surprise to many people, since they specifically drink diet sodas to help prevent weight gain. A study by the University of Texas Health Center found that people who drink a great deal of diet sodas face a greater risk of obesity. In fact, these researchers found that, simply by drinking two sodas a day, study participants increased their waistlines by a whopping 500%. Researchers point to the fact that artificial sweeteners are able to disrupt the ability of the body to properly regulate its caloric intake, according to a Purdue University animal study.
Alcohol and diet sodas are a bad combination
When cocktails are made with diet soda, people tend to get drunker, faster, according to Australia's Royal Adelaide Hospital. The culprit behind this phenomenon is the fact that using mixers that are sugar-free enables the alcohol to enter a person's bloodstream at a much quicker rate.
Though it turns out that diet soda is not really a viable alternative to sugar-laden drinks, all is not lost. Water makes a good substitute for diet sodas, and the occasional sugary drink will likely be fine.
Sources:
http://www.today.com
http://www.prevention.com
http://articles.chicagotribune.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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Drinking Soda Rapidly Accelerates Aging and Leads To Early Death
by Julie Wilson staff writer
(NaturalNews) Soda, pop, soda pop, coke, whatever you might call it depending on which part of the country you're from, this sugary drink is still by far one of the worst things that you can put into your body, and the research continues to substantiate this claim.
Published in the American Journal of Public Health, this latest study regarding the horrors of soft drinks comes from the University of California, San Francisco, with results disturbing enough to deter anyone from taking another sip of the syrupy, sugar-sweetened beverages.
Attempting to identify whether or not soda speeds up the body's aging process, researchers observed and assessed over 5,300 healthy adults who drank sugar-sweetened beverages, diet soda and fruit juice over a five-year period.
The participants, ages 20 to 65 years old, had no history of diabetes or cardiovascular disease according to the 1999 to 2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, scientists say.
Sugary beverages discovered to be even more incredibly unhealthy and dangerous than previously thought, scientists admit
In order to test for a link between sugary drinks and cell aging, researchers compared the participants' beverage consumption with leukocyte telomere length, or the ends of chromosomes. The shorter the telomere, the less a cell can regenerate, indicating accelerated aging and an increased risk of disease and early death, reports CBS San Francisco.
The findings revealed that the more of a certain type of sugary drink the participants consumed, the shorter their telomeres turned out to be.
"This finding is alarming because it suggest[s] that soda may be aging us, in ways we are not even aware of," said one of the study's lead authors, Dr. Elissa Epel, who dedicated five years to the experiment.
The diets of the volunteers were reportedly assessed using 24-hour dietary recalls, while associations were made using multivariate linear regression to document chromosome length. An estimated 21 percent of survey respondents admitted to drinking 20 ounces of soda per day, which by scientist's calculations sheds about four and a half years off their lives.
After making adjustments for sociodemographic and health-related characteristics, researchers concluded with 95 percent confidence that sugar-sweetened soda was linked to shorter telomeres in this particular study.
Scientists were unable to draw "significant" connections between consumption of diet sodas and noncarbonated sugar-sweetened beverages with telomere length, according to reports. However, consumption of 100 percent fruit juice was "marginally" associated with slightly longer telomeres.
100 percent fruit drinks could be beneficial to human health, while carbonated sugary sodas are likely detrimental to long-term health
The authors admit that they can't definitively say drinking sugary soda is the cause of shortened telomeres; however, previous studies have proven that drinks containing sugar do appear to accelerate the aging of cells, reports Guardian Liberty Voice.
Regular consumption of sugar-sweetened sodas might influence metabolic disease and development through accelerated cell aging, concludes the researcher's report, indicating that other factors may have contributed to telomere shortening and the onset of disease.
"We think we can get away with drinking lots of soda as long as we are not gaining weight, but this suggests that there is an invisible pathway that leads to accelerated aging, regardless of weight," said Dr. Epel.
An estimated 50 percent of Americans are still drinking sugary beverages daily, while approximately one out of four Americans say they consume at least 200 calories from soda alone, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.
Professor Epel plans to perform another study that will track volunteer's sugary drink habits in "real-time" before comparing the results to cell aging.
Sources:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
http://ajph.aphapublications.org
http://guardianlv.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Re: Soft Drinks, Colas
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Here's What Happens In The 60 Minutes After You Drink A Can Of Coca-Cola
by L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
(NaturalNews) Cleaning a toilet is cheap and easy with a can of Coca-Cola. After the Coke sits in the toilet for an hour, the carbonic and phosphoric acid gets the job done, leaving behind a scum-free toilet bowl!
When that same can of Coke is poured into the mouth and down the esophagus of a human being, a much more complex chain of events occurs. After burning its way down the throat and leaving behind a film of caramel coloring on the teeth, the Coca-Cola begins its nutritional destruction on the inside of the body.
In 60 minutes, a can of Coke takes the body on a roller coaster ride, taxing the liver, spiking the blood sugar, accelerating the production of bad fat and robbing the body of beneficial nutrients.
With 1.6 billion servings of Coke sold worldwide every day, it's no wonder why heart disease, malnutrition, dehydration, diabetes and obesity are slowly killing people.
Doctors often advise obese patients to stop eating fats, but many fats are good for the heart and the brain, like Omega-3 fatty acids. To top it off, simply avoiding fats disregards one of the most silent perpetrators of weight gain and disease – high fructose corn syrup.
Instead of drinking poisonous soda, drink a hydrating glass of WATER.
Soda robs the body of nutrients and burdens the liver
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is found in all sorts of processed foods, condiments and sweet drinks. It's even in the "low fat" alternative foods that people are conned into buying for losing weight.
The thing is this: HFCS is NOT like glucose. Glucose is recognized by the body, metabolized by the cells, and more readily used for energy, whereas HFCS breaks down into glucose and fructose, making it harder for the body to use.
The fructose that is broken down is nothing like the fructose in fruits, either. Fruits naturally have fiber to prevent the body from absorbing too much of the fructose. HFCS does not contain fiber. It floods the body with no accountability or balance, taxing the liver. HFCS is often consumed with other artificial sweetening agents that are only there to enhance a product's flavor. This flood of toxins is hard on the blood, skin and detoxifying organs.
HFCS is ultimately metabolized by the liver in similar fashion to ethanol found in an alcoholic drink. As fructose floods the liver, the liver becomes confused and ends up producing a bunch of bad fats. As the body is "intoxicated" by HFCS, the brain never receives the signal that it is full either. This may lead to a person to eating and drinking more, adding to weight gain woes.
Read other interesting articles on both toxic sweeteners like aspartame and natural sweeteners like coconut sugar at sweeteners.news
60 minutes of abuse
In the first 10 minutes of drinking a Coke, 10 teaspoons of sugar enter the body. That's 100 percent of a person's recommended daily intake. A person can only tolerate the extreme sweetness because the teeth-rotting phosphoric acid offsets the sweetness.
After 20 minutes has gone by, the blood sugar spikes, causing a burst of insulin. As the fructose runs rampant and goes unabsorbed, the liver goes into overtime, drawing in the sugar molecules and turning them into bad fats.
By the time 40 minutes hits, caffeine absorption maxes out. A person's blood pressure spikes and their pupils dilate. This spurs the liver to dump more sugar into the bloodstream. Consequentially, the brain's adenosine receptors are blocked, making the person feel awake.
Five minutes later, dopamine production goes up in the brain, giving the person feelings of pleasure that addict them into wanting more.
After an hour, the phosphoric acid that has made its way through the system has pulled out vital nutrients from the body. Calcium, magnesium and zinc bind with phosphoric acid in the lower intestine.
Calcium, magnesium, zinc, electrolytes and water are then urinated out the body and wasted. The Coke has not only addicted the brain to its curse but it has also caused the formation of bad fats, blood sugar spikes, blood pressure changes, dehydration and the loss of bone building nutrients!
As the hour climaxes, a person begins to have a sugar crash. Irritability and fatigue sets in. The bones are robbed of vital nutrients and the system is left dehydrated.
It's 60 minutes of abuse and it happens with every can of soda.
Sources for this article include:
http://therenegadepharmacist.com
http://therenegadepharmacist.com
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