have cut down my pepsi addiction since finding out about the pesticides it contains, but since found out about a few other nasty surprises.....
firstly.....high fructose corn syrup in soft drinks/junk food contains..... mostly genetically modified corn.
secondly.....they extract the syrup, then add a chemical to the syrup so its not even a natural sweetner.
alan watt, quoting from article in washington post.... it contains mercury!
now i know why i am a bit dumded down.
will have to think twice or three times before buying my next 1.25 litre pepsi.
The report that claimed pesticide levels in India (and nowhere else) can be found at http://www.cseindia.org/html/cola-indepth/softdrinks_report.pdf and if you are concerned about this kind of thing I recommend you read the whole thing.
From another article (www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2003/2003-08-08-01.asp):
Peter mac is paranoid but high frustose corn syrup is interesting. He is still wrong though...
High fructose corn syrup has been linked to obesity. In America, it is used instead of sugar. The American corn lobby have pushed for it as an alternative to importing South American sugar.
It has been suggested that North America is not interested in any white powder being imported from South America....
Peter is paranoid though because
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IS NOT USED IN AUSTRALIA. IF HE READS THE LABEL IT WILL SAY "CANE SUGAR"
On the subject of sugar and it's connection with obesity.
How many of you have heard of a natural sugar substitute called Stevia?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia
Thought it would be an appropriate link because of it's health and political controversies in some countries over the past 30 years or so.
corn syrup is now in hundreds, maybe thousands of different foods.
much of this corn is probably genetically modified.
much of the australian produced food we buy is made from imported ingredients.
not heard anything that this corn syrup is not allowed in australian food production.
then there is the food we buy direct from U.S.
look at the studies that have already been done on rats fed G.M food.
australians are consuming this stuff from imported foods.
maybe from australian produce as well.
hope its not a tenth as bad for us as studies suggest.
i don't know.... just a theory unlike the other stuff.. my guess, listen to some of the things he said before they, sorry before he died.
Look up cysteine, made from hair commonly rendered in China collected from barbers.
I had 12 years with Masterfoods. Everything that comes out of a processing factory is highly suspect. The amount of powders that go into giving food a shelf life is quite staggering. Most are fairly new compounds, many of which have only been tested on your pets.
cisco....I am now starting to wonder about anything that comes in a packet, can jar or bottle.
.........that has not been deliberately contaminated bt the N.W.O.
4 grams is one teaspoon... it's bad
There's something about the way it tastes that hides the fact that it's ten spoonfuls of sugar
The guys that make it are trying to get you to drink more toohttp://www.preventioninstitute.org/portionsizerept.html
I don't understand this thread. Surely there is nobody around who believes that soft drinks have any dietary or nutritional value.
But if you you are going to discuss soft drinks then Coca Cola is the first and best. Who can actually admit to ordering a "bundy and Pepsi" as opposed to "bundy and Coke"
A Pub in Darwin switched from coke on tap to Pepsi on tp a few years ago. It encouraged me to drink more beer
Sugar is critical to a mans existence.
18 kilos of sugar mixed with two bags of turbo yeast and fifty litres of water yields 10 liters of ethanol which, when filtered carefully will do you a whole world of good! Much much better than Grey Goose.
all i get is an image of city slickers worried about softdrinks while in peak traffic sucking up those car fumes.