Some Famous Soft Drinks are a bit Cancer-y

Seems like everyones favourite brown drinks - Coke and Pepsi - may have to make some alterations to their respective secret ingredients.  They both use an ingredient which the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the U.S. has linked to cancer in mice and rats.  Well rats and mice shouldn't be drinking coke anyway, how did they get the bottle open?  But due to concerns that humans might suffer the same effects, out goes the ingredient.  But Coke and Pepsi reassure us that it will be same great taste we know and love, just a bit less cancer-y.  Or words to that effect.


Source:  Independent UK

Don't Drink Alcohol. (Or Coffee, or Soda, even the Diet Version)

Because they are all bad for you, especially the alcohol.  Alcohol sucks B vitamins out of your body like a delightful hoover.  All you're left with is the shell.  Plus it makes you fat.  So do soft drinks.  And so do diet soft drinks because 'studies show they increase your desire for sweets'.  Now I haven't embarked on any studies myself, but might I suggest that the sweets thing is just fat people rewarding themselves for not glugging down a 2 litre bottle of regular Coke?The rather tedious dietician featured in this article (link below) also doesn't like coffee, but it's just a vague dislike, nothing you can hang your hat on.  I imagine all dieticians instinctively distrust coffee.  I also imagine that they do not make great road-trip buddies.

Source:  Chicago Tribune

Soft Drinks are Bad For You

According to a Study, drinking a can of soda a day will increase your risk of heart disease by 20%.  If you are a man. This particular study was a men-only affair, probably due to some undisclosed bias on the part of the surveyors. The 'study leader' is a professor at Harvard - or at least the Harvard School of Public Health, which you, I and everyone else on the planet assumes is the same thing.  And maybe it is.  But anyway this professor and his team (of students?) have come to the conclusion that even one can of Popsi or Cake per day and you massively increase the chances of your heart packing it in.  Or in other words, carbonated drinks containing large amounts of sugar and various other unpronounceable chemicals are bad for your health.  Thanks Harvard Professor!


Source: Irish Independent