44. The Madness of Softdrinks
Chapter 44 from "Castrated in the womb - everyone a guinea pig"
The arguments for a buyer's strike should also suffice when it comes to sweet drinks in PET bottles and aluminum cans.
For years, we had a young Albanian mother working as a domestic helper. She often brought her preschool-aged son with her, and he was always sucking on a bottle of sweet drink. How often I advised her against it. Later, the school dentist found cavities in all of his baby teeth; only brown stumps remained. These teeth had to be extracted one by one to prevent the decay from spreading to the permanent teeth. Of course, the mother blamed the dentist.
Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, and other sweet drinks also occupy meters of shelf space in supermarkets and contain 9-11 percent sugar by weight. Such sugar intake was not intended in the wild, where there was at most a little honey. Regular high sugar consumption leads to obesity and tooth decay and increases the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and vascular disease. Artificially sweetened drinks do not solve the problem because they trick the body into a state of ravenous hunger, causing people to eat more.
Aluminum beverage cans are also lined with a plastic film that releases harmful substances into carbonated drinks.
If you want to spare yourself and the world from obesity, disruptors, PET, and microplastics, stick to tap water and the universe of teas and syrups. COOP Switzerland also sells Demeter sweet cider in glass bottles.
The next chapter 45 we will demonstrate how most bio-food packed in plastic is just a fraud. And this link takes you to the start of the book.
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