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ON AREATED COLD DRINKS |
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JUST A MOMENT PLEASE….
A note on---- Aerated soft drinks
Parents just do not know, or refuse to realize, the menace of aerated cold drinks to our children. Irrespective of the plausible-sounding explanations of the cold-drinks industries that aerated drinks are absolutely safe, please be well-informed of the opposite views too, before feeding it to your kids.
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While one may not find fresh juices, milk drinks or even safe drinking water while traveling, one is sure to spot a cold drink stand even in the most remote corners of rural India. And now, with so much aggressive advertising, even the uneducated and illiterate children in rural or remote areas, who were somewhat unaware of and hence protected from these aerated drinks till now, (or were too poor to afford them), now know that “Paanch matlab Coco-cola” or “Dil Maange more”—means Pepsi drinks, and they can have these for five bucks (about10 cents).
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Parents, do remember that the soft drinks that you so freely give your children, are a very real health hazard! Each 300-ml bottle of it contains atleast seven to ten spoons of sugar, 35-45 mg of caffeine, acids, volatile oils, Benzene and other chemicals & additives.
It has no calcium, organic salts/ sugars/ minerals or any other nutrients, and the high phosphate content from the phosphoric acid binds the calcium in the digestive system and makes it unavailable for absorption.
Together with these facts, know also, that cold drinks are highly acidic (with its carbonic & phosphoric acid, high sugar content and other chemicals), and tend to make the blood acidic, which then draws out calcium from the bones to maintain its alkalinity. So aerated cold drinks probably contribute in a major way to osteoporosis later on in life, a disease becoming rampant in Coke and Pepsi guzzling nations, as are diabetes, juvenile diabetes and hyperactivity in kids, probably due to the high sugar and caffeine content.
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Caffeine, besides being habit-forming, is also a natural diuretic and causes an increased output of essential minerals in the urine, and combined with the high sugar content, is doubly more likely to cause osteoporosis.
Other added chemicals are believed to cause respiratory allergies, and chemicals like benzene are highly toxic and known to cause cancer. The fact that the aerated drinks are usually drunk absolutely chilled or topped up with ice, does not help the child’s health at all! An anti-freeze chemical added to aerated drinks, prevents the drink from freezing at 0 degrees, thereby allowing it to get really chilled to below zero temperatures, without freezing. The industry claims that the Propylene/ ethylene glycol added to soft drinks is a safe and suitable solvent—widely used by the food and beverage industry, but what that low temperature of aerated drinks does to the digestion & absorption of the food and nutrients in the stomach, is of no concern to them! We know that one needs an optimum temperature in the stomach (about 37C) for the food to be properly digested, while the ‘below zero’ chilled drinks brings down the temperature inside the stomach so much that your child is not likely to digest much food, nor absorb or utilize the undigested or semi digested nutrients!
Both, the caffeine & high sugar content are definitely habit-forming for a child, causing mood swings, lethargy, irritability, a droopy feeling, tantrums and other ‘withdrawal’ symptoms when you try to withdraw soft drinks from your child, or when he cannot have his daily ‘fix’.
‘Benzene’ is another cancer-causing chemical added to soft drinks, in quantities greater than allowed in drinking water (in U.K.), since there are no minimum limits fixed for its presence in soft drinks!
It is frightening to see how freely these carbonated, chemicalized, aerated cold drinks (and possible producer of many a chronic, if not lethal, disease), is available in every nook and corner of our country, served at children’s parties, and ‘pushed’ free with junk food meals and at fast food restaurants.
And perhaps, the scariest of all, is how the parents themselves allow, even encourage their kids to drink this toxic liquid whenever they want it. Parents who would never dream of letting their precious toddlers have a cup or two of steaming black coffee with seven to twelve spoons of sugar and all kinds of inorganic/ toxic/ cancer-causing chemicals added, think nothing of letting them have one or more bottled aerated drinks in a day, containing even more caffeine, sugar and other chemicals than the 5 oz. cup of coffee. It is amazing how they ‘reward’ their children with edible food poisons such as cold drinks.
YES! You are doing this to your children all the time, without realizing that it is not love, but slow murder to pamper your precious kids with these ‘poisons’. If they are really precious to you, you should start ‘de-addicting’ them today.
And don’t forget that the “Energy Drinks” flooding our markets today, have extremely high quantities of Caffeine which is not listed as caffeine, but included under ‘natural ingredients’!!
BY: DR CHANDA SETH |
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