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Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

In fact, the experience of most people is quite the opposite. soft drink manufacturers certainly don't claim their products cause people to lose weight, because they know they couldn't get away with that kind of claim without some sort of proof - and they have none. Technically, then, all diet soft drinks are mislabeled. There's nothing about them that qualifies as "diet," and the FDA should require soft drink manufacturers to either prove their drinks help people lose weight or disallow the use of the word "diet" in the product names.

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If a person gets diabetes from consuming soft drinks, especially when those soft drinks don't contain the honest labeling that warns consumers about the inevitable health effects of consuming them, that citizen should have the right to sue the soft drink manufacturers for damages related to their disease. This is called justice, and in a just society, citizens who are harmed by corporate marketing and the quest for corporate profits should be able to sue those corporations in order to recoup their losses. I know this is a highly controversial subject, and it's certainly not my first choice.

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There's nothing about them that qualifies as "diet," and the FDA should require soft drink manufacturers to either prove their drinks help people lose weight or disallow the use of the word "diet" in the product names. A closer look at the health problems linked to soft drink consumption Now, let's take a look at the various problems and health risks associated with diet soft drinks. First, the most obvious: artificial chemical sweeteners: Artificial chemical sweeteners Factoid: One liter of most aspartame-sweetened soft drinks contains about 55 mg of methanol. - H. J. Roberts, M.D.

Most notably, however, caffeine is highly addictive. soft drink manufacturers, in fact, depend on caffeine to keep people hooked on their products in much the same way that cigarette manufacturers rely on nicotine for repeat sales. Caffeine makes it hard to "quit" soft drinks because your nervous system keeps telling you, "You need caffeine!" But in fact, vou don't need caffeine, especially if you are battling mineral depletion problems or osteoporosis.

So it's difficult to lend credibility to anything stated by soft drink manufacturers. Clearly, they are primarily interested in selling products, not in protecting the health of their customers. After all, sick customers don't demand reimbursements from soft drinks companies for their medical bills. Making people sick and promoting diseases like osteoporosis has absolutely financial consequences to soft drink companies themselves. The medical costs of dealing with these diseases are fully shouldered by the customer.

Not surprisingly, the soft drink spin machine has infected all sorts of scientific-sounding groups and organizations whose employees unabashedly defend the soft drink manufacturers: Corporations also fund "nonprofit research institutes" which provide "third party experts" to advocate on their behalf. The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), for example, is a commonly-used industry front group that produces PR ammunition for the food processing and chemical industries. Headed by Elizabeth Whelan, ACSH routinely presents itself as an "independent," "objective" science institute.

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What the USDA says, and what many companies say -- especially junk food manufacturers, soft drink manufacturers and so on -- is that any food can be part of a healthy diet. That's their statement. That's their common defense. If you became overweight drinking soft drinks and eating Big Macs at McDonald's, and you try to sue McDonald's, the restaurant's defense will be, in part, based on the idea that McDonald's food can be part of a healthy diet. Now, I disagree with this because if you look around, every company is saying this.

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This information reduces the profits of popular product manufacturers Water, for another example, takes away profits from soft drink manufacturers. This is why, in years past, Coca-Cola actually ran a campaign in restaurants called "Just say no to H20." This campaign was designed to dissuade people from drinking water and, instead, convince them to consume highly profitable carbonated beverages like Coca-Cola or Diet Coke. So there hasn't been a lot of economic incentive for people to promote the healing benefits of water.

Consumption of soft drinks and high-fructose corn syrup linked to obesity and diabetes Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

They're afraid that junk food companies and fast-food companies (and especially soft drink manufacturers) are going to be blamed for the nation's obesity crisis in the same way big tobacco companies are blamed for lung cancer. And it's sort of hard to tell where most doctors are going to fall on this issue. It wasn't too long ago when doctors were being paid by cigarette companies to actually endorse cigarettes.

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