Good Ol’ Sunny D
Parents still give it to their kids and people still drink it! Why? Because it’s sweet, it tastes good, and most importantly…it’s cheap!
Aside from the high amount of sugar and calories, guess what one of the ingredients is?
Vegetable oil! It’s true, they use it as a thickener. You can see for yourself on the ingredients label of the drink. It’s kind of disgusting thinking you are drinking fattening, artery clogging, vegetable oil just so that the manufacturers can save money!
Also, many other drinks like this one contain sodium benzoate. Sodium Benzoate is used in just about every canned drink, fruit juice, pickles, etc., as a preservative. But did you know that Sodium Benzoate is also used in fireworks and as chemical to prevent mildew and rust. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_benzoate). It was also recently used as a corrosion inhibitor in engine coolant systems. And we eat / drink this….why? Because it is a lower costing preservative and manufacturers probably need to add preservatives so they can produce more products cheaper and in larger amounts.
How about a food product like Cheetos or cheesy twists, or even gummy-bears? Well these foods aren’t aren’t natural! You can’t find it somewhere on the earth growing naturally. They were brewed up by scientists! Just as pesticides came to be within the last century. Farmers spray fruits and veggies with pesticides (obviously to keep the bugs off so they can grow a larger amount of produce) but if they’re enough to kill and keep away insects, why would humans want to ingest that?
On top of the pesticides, most grocery stores then put wax on their fruits and veggies! Why? So they look better on display! In many states it is illegal for stores not to let you know if there is wax on their fruits and vegetables or not, so read up! Search the internet for your local grocery store’s policies on waxing. Definitely buy organic products if you can. They are a little more expensive, but you can’t put a price on your health. Even something that grows underground like potatoes, or carrots, that you think don’t get sprayed with pesticides… well, farmers usually have pesticides in the soil in which these vegetables grow in.
Cancer and diabetes as well as many other new-age diseases could caused by our lifestyle. The foods we eat, the drinks we drink, not getting enough exercise, smoking, etc. have long been thought to cause most disease.
That could be true. If you think about it, if these diseases were hereditary, why didn’t they exist centuries ago? Like in the decades before scientists and farmers started using chemicals in our food and before manufacturing companies began adding so much sugar and salt but displaying the nutrition information in a way that confuses people.
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