MedicalConspiracies- Poison found in Soft Drinks

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I found this info for a friend who is trying to kick the soft drink habit.  And it turns out it is even worse than I thought!  It not only poisons you, but it robs you of essential nutrients, opening the way for cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s and more.  Read this and stop poisoning yourself and your family!  Kick the soft drink habit.

 

Poison found in Soft Drinks

 

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THE SOFT DRINK POISON
>by Sean Kennedy  /   April 12, 2006 01:48 AM EDT  
>The news for the soft drink industry hasn't been good. With links to
childhood obesity and tooth decay, soft drink sales are down for the
first time in 20 years. And sales of bottled water, juices and energy
drinks are continuing to eat into the soda market.
>
>But a larger problem may loom.
>
>In
February, the FDA quietly revealed that some soft drinks were found to
contain the human carcinogen benzene in levels up to 10-20 parts per
billion (ppb) -- four times the acceptable limit found in drinking
water. (if these levels are found in drinking water Federal Laws Mandate

the public be notified immediately by TV, News papers, Radio & by letters to each residence.)
>
>Benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other forms of cancer, forms in
certain beverages under certain conditions, such as exposure to heat and
light. It also forms naturally in forest fires, gasoline and cigarette
smoke, among other things, and it's widely used industrially to make
plastics, rubber, detergents, drugs and pesticides.
>
>The  Environmental Protection Agency requires public notification and
alternative water supply for drinking water contaminated with levels of 5
ppb. Even "relatively short periods" of exposure at that level can
"potentially cause  temporary nervous system disorders, immune system
depression [and] anemia," according to the agency. A lifetime of
exposure, says the EPA, can cause "chromosome aberrations [and] cancer."
>
>Though the FDA has not set an acceptable level of benzene for beverages,
arguing that the public consumes soft drinks and other beverages in far
lower amounts than they do drinking water, parents are sure to be
alarmed. Most would likely admit that the amount of soda their kids
drink dwarfs water consumption.
>
>The story first broke late last year when an industry whistleblower named

Larry Alibrandi posted previously
undisclosed documents on the Internet. In 1990, a Cadbury-Schweppes
study called Project Denver found that certain soft drinks, particularly
diet orange-flavored sodas, had the tendency to form benzene when
exposed to heat and light. And memos reveal that the FDA knew about the
problem all these years, yet never revealed it to the public or took
adequate measures to fix it.

Cadbury-Schweppes' chemists eventually determined that the benzene was caused by a chemical reaction
between the preservative sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid (Vitamin C).
The effect was found to be especially prevalent in diet sodas, and shot
up to even higher levels after products were subjected to extremes of
heat and light. According to the documents, Cadbury-Schweppes' Diet
Crush was found to contain benzene at 25 parts per billion (ppb) -- five
times the acceptable EPA limit. After exposure to 16 hours of
ultraviolet lightat temperatures around 30 C (86 F), that level jumped to a whopping 82
ppb. Diet Slice (made by Pepsi) contained 1 ppb before exposure, and
41.5 ppb after exposure. Diet Minute Maid (made by Coca-Cola) contained
less than 0.5 ppb before exposure and 4.5 ppb afterwards, the documents
say.
>
>The problem has lead to recalls in the both U.S. and U.K.
>
>Alibrandi speculates that the Big Three soft drink makers (Coca-Cola, Pepsi and
Cadbury-Schweppes) didn't publicly recall their products in 1990 because
of fears that they might have to replace sodium benzoate -- an
important anti-microbial preservative. Without it or its cousin
potassium benzoate, he says, manufacturers would be unable to
cold-bottle their drinks, instead having to undertake the more costly
process of heat pasteurization. "The Big Three are going to safeguard
that preservative," says Alibrandi. "If they told authorities the
magnitude of it, maybe the risk was to have the preservative pulled. I
imagine that would create a technical nightmare for these folks."
>
They likely had financial concerns as well. In January 1990, Perrier
sparkling water in the United States was found to be contaminated with
benzene at levels up to 22 ppb. More than 160 million bottles of water
were recalled worldwide, at a loss of $263 million to the company.
Perrier's reputation took a hit as well, as the company was condemned
for its failure to act quickly and for continuing to advertise during
the recall.
>
>After the Project Denver tests, the industry moved
quickly to minimize the problem. In less than a month, Cadbury-Schweppes
changed the formula for Orange Crush, removing ascorbic acid from the
drink. Later, chemists discovered that the benzene-causing reaction
could be slowed by a "technical fix" -- the addition of other chemicals
called "chelating agents," of which the most common is called calcium
disodium EDTA. "The soft drink industry promptly took steps to address
the causes of benzene formation, and the matter was resolved through
improved manufacturing procedures," said American Beverage Association
(ABA) spokesperson Kathleen Dezio in a statement, when the whistleblower
documents were posted last year.  (not before!!!)
>
>While the industry contends the problem was corrected in the most popular sodas, no public recall was
ever done. Judging from their ingredients, dozens of products now on the
shelves could potentially have the same problem, including such popular
brands as Sunny Delight, flavored Diet Pepsi and Fanta Orange. (The
Environmental Working Group has posted a partial list of possibly risky
products.)
>
>Concerned parents, worried that there might be
cancer-causing benzene in kids' drinks, recently filed class-action
lawsuits against Polar Beverages Inc. and In Zone Brands Inc. for not
taking steps to keep benzene from forming in their beverages.
>
>Atlanta-based In Zone makes BellyWashers, juice drinks that come in reusable
bottles featuring Spiderman, Hello Kitty, Scooby Doo and dozens of other
well-known characters. Worcester, Mass.-based Polar Beverages makes
fruit-flavored sodas and seltzers as well as mixers.
>
>The lawsuits allege that independent laboratory tests found benzene in the
companies' drinks at levels above the federal drinking-water limit (5
ppb).
>
>Food and Drug Administration sampling from 1995 through 2001 found similar results in unidentified brands.
>
>"The question is, how much does this problem still exist today?" says
Alibrandi, who is now head of American Quality Beverages, a small New
York producer of health drinks. "We have hundreds of examples from the
trade, and many of them could potentially be a problem. What's
especially disconcerting is the products engineered for children, where
it's a potentially bigger problem for them since their body mass is very
small."
>
>Alibrandi says he was shocked when he recently pulled
trade samples of hundreds of beverages and found the same combination of sodium or
potassium benzoate and ascorbic acid, including some without the
"technical fix" of one of the chelating agents. "I was astounded to see
the number of products that contained this combination," says Alibrandi.
"If this broke 15 years ago, why wasn't this rectified across the
industry? The consumers of America deserve better."
> 
>
>Lawsuit: Coca Cola drinks may cause cancer
>
>http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3235539,00.html
>In request to file NIS 200 million class action suit plaintiff claims
Fanta brand soft drinks contain ingredient that may cause cancer and are
not suitable for drinking. Coca Cola: Our products undergo strict
quality assurance process / Vered Luvitch
>A request to file a NIS 200 million (USD 43
million) class action lawsuit against the Central Bottling Company (Coca
Cola Israel) was submitted to the Tel Aviv District Court
>The plaintiff, Yaakov Huri, who filed the request through his lawyer Yochi
Geva, alleges that the Central Bottling Company misled consumers of its
Fanta brand soft drinks because the drinks are not suitable for human
consumption. The plaintiff claims that the Fanta drinks contain a
combination of two ingredients -- sodium preservatives and acerbic
acid? that together create Benzene, which is believed to be a
cancer-causing ingredient in humans. The plaintiff additionally
claims that the quantity of these ingredients in a Fanta bottle are
eight times more than the acceptable, or the recommended amount in
drinking water, and it should be applied soft drinks as well.
>
>'Fanta products carry no health risks'
>He said that he used to trust the company's
approval and the labels on the bottles stating that the product does not risk one's health and that obviously there are no ingredients that in
combination could produce cancer causing elements.
>
>Additionally, Huri claims that the company was fully aware of the health risks it subjected the public to.
>
>Coca Cola said in response that it didn't receive the lawsuit yet and that
their products are safe for drinking and undergo a strict quality
assurance process as part of a quality assurance system which is one of
the most advanced in the world.
>
>"Products stand the requirement of not only the global coca cola company but also all the
strict norms and standards of the Health Ministry and the Standards
Institution of Israel," the company said in a statement.
>
>The company explained that a combination of the ingredients exists in two
Fanta products and both were analyzed by the company's global laboratory
in Europe.
The findings also support the claims that the amount of Benzene is
drastically lower than the Israeli standard and the World Health
Organization standard for drinking water. Therefore, Coca Cola said,
"it's important to stress that Fanta products carry no health risks."
>
>http://muqata.blogspot.com/2006/04/poison-israeli-soda-soft-drinks.html
>
>While reading up on our local economic news in Israel, I was rather surprised to read about a $42.8 Million dollar class action suit against Coca-Cola in Israel, the owners of the Fanta product line.   Apparently, Fanta contains sodium preservatives and acerbic acid? that
together create Benzene, which is believed to be a cancer-causing ingredient in humans.
>
>In response the article states  The company explained that a combination of the
ingredients exists in two Fanta products and both were analyzed by the
company's global laboratory in Europe. The findings also support the
claims that the amount of Benzene is drastically lower than the Israeli
standard and the World Health Organization standard for drinking water.
Therefore, Coca Cola said, "it's important to stress that Fanta products carry no health riss."
> 
>http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/food_what_happens_to_body_after_drinking_coke.htm
> 
>What Happens to Your Body Within an Hour of Drinking a Coke
>Mercola | January 16, 2008
>
>Do you want to be healthy? Drinking soda is bad for your health in so many ways; science can't even state all the
consequences. Here's what happens in your body when you assault it with a Coke:
>
>Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is
100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you
don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because
phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.
>
>Within 20 minutes, your blood sugar spikes, and your liver responds to the resulting insulin
burst by turning massive amounts of sugar into fat.
>
>Within 40 minutes, caffeine absorption is complete; your pupils dilate, your
blood pressure rises, and your livers dumps more sugar into your
bloodstream.
>
>Around 45 minutes, your body increases  dopamine production, which stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain
a physically identical response to that of heroin, by the way.
>
>After 60 minutes, you'll start to have a sugar crash.
>
>Sources:
>
>Nutrition Research Center October 24, 2007
>
>How many sodas have you had today? How about your kids? As of 2005, white
bread was dethroned as the number one source of calories in the American
diet, being replaced by soft drinks.
>
>The average  American drinks more than 60 gallons of soft drinks each year, but
before you grab that next can of soda, consider this: one can of soda
has about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine,
and is loaded with artificial food colors and sulphites. Not to mention
the fact that it’s also your largest source of dangerous high-fructose modified corn syrup .
>

Let’s take a look at some of the other major components of a can of soda:
> 
>Phosphoric Acid : Which can interfere with the body's ability to use calcium, leading to osteoporosis or softening of the teeth and bones.
> 
>Sugar : It is a proven fact that sugar increases insulin levels , which can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, premature aging and many more negative side
effects. Most sodas include over 100 percent of the RDA of sugar. Sugar
is so bad for your health in so many ways, I even created an entire list outlining 100-Plus Ways in Which Sugar Can Damage Your Health
> 
>Aspartame : This chemical is used as a sugar substitute in diet soda. There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption including brain tumors, birth defects, diabetes, emotional disorders and epilispsy/seizures.
> 
>Caffeine : Caffeinated drinks cause jitters, insomnia, high blood pressure,
irregular heartbeat, elevated blood cholesterol levels, vitamin and
mineral depletion, breast lumps, birth defects, and perhaps some forms
of cancer.
> 
>Tap Water : I recommend that everyone avoid drinking tap water because it can carry any number of chemicals including chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead,
cadmium, and various organic pollutants. Tap water is the main ingredient in bottled soft drinks.
> 
>Clearly, the over-consumption of sodas and sweet drinks is one of the leading causes fueling the world-wide obesity epidemic.
>
>One independent, peer-reviewed study published in the British medical journal The Lancet demonstrated a strong link between soda consumption and childhood obesity.  They found that 12-year-olds who drank soft
drinks regularly were more likely to be overweight than those who
didn't. In fact, for each additional daily serving of sugar-sweetened
soft drink consumed during the nearly two-year study, the risk of obesity jumped by 60 percent .
>
>Here’s another sobering fact, if you’re struggling with weight issues: Just one extra can of soda per day can add as much as 15 pounds to your weight over the course of a single year!
>Other statistics on the health dangers of soft drinks include:
> 
>One soda per day increases your risk of diabetes by 85 percent
> 
>Soda drinkers have higher cancer risk. While the federal limit for benzene in drinking water is 5 parts per billion (ppb), researchers have found benzene levels as high as 79 ppb in some soft drinks, and of the 100 brands tested , most had at least some detectable level of benzene present
> 
>Soda has been shown to cause DNA damage courtesy of sodium benzoate, a common preservative found in many soft
drinks, which has the ability to switch off vital parts of your DNA.  This could eventually lead to diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver and Parkinson's
> 
>If you are still drinking soda, stopping the habit is an easy way to improve your health. Pure water is a much better choice, or if you must drink a carbonated beverage, try sparkling mineral water with a squirt of lime or lemon juice.
>
>There is absolutely NO REASON your kids should ever drink soda. None, nada, zip, zero. No excuses. The elimination of soft
drinks is one of the most crucial factors to deal with many of the health problems you or your children suffer.
>
>If you struggle with an addiction to soda, (remember, sugar is actually more addictive than cocaine !) I strongly recommend you consider Turbo Tapping as a simple yet highly effective tool to help you stop this health-sucking habit. Turbo Tapping is a simple and clever use of the Emotional Freedom Technique , designed to resolve many aspects of an issue in a concentrated period of time.   
> 
>Website:   http://www.mindconnection.com/library/health/softdrinks.htm
>Amazingly, Americans (and people in other countries) actually drink a product that
can rightfully be called Osteoporosis In a Can. And, it gets worse from there. Read on.
>
>This poison goes by many brand names, such as Coca Cola and Pepsi. Generically, this poison is on the market in formulations known as soda, pop, andsoft drinks. It includes all carbonated beverages--even carbonated plain water. The various substances in sodas
compound the problem, especially the typical formulations with their carbonic acid or phosphoric acid.
>Reading the rest of this article may be the best use you've ever made of 5 minutes. Yeah, we know Pepsi
will never sponsor an ad on this site. But your health is more important to us.
>It's tragic that the "beverage" industry shoves this toxic brew at human beings. Let's take a closer look at what it does.
>
>The carbonation in all soft drinks causes calcium loss in the bones through a three-stage process:
> 
>The carbonation irritates the stomach.
> 
>The stomach "cures" the irritation the only way it knows how. It adds the
only antacid at its disposal: calcium. It gets this from the blood.
> 
>The blood, now low on calcium, replenishes its supply from the bones. If it did not do this,
muscular and brain function would be severely impaired.
> 
>But, the story doesn't end there. Another problem with most soft drinks is
they also contain phosphoric acid (not the same as the carbonation,
which is carbon dioxide mixed with the water). This substance also
causes a drawdown on the store of calcium.
>
>So, soft drinks soften your bones (actually, they make them weak and brittle) in three ways:
> 
>Carbonation reduces the calcium in the bones.
>Phosphoric acid reduces the calcium in the bones.
>The beverage replaces a calcium-containing alternative, such as milk or water. Milk and water are not excellent calciumsources, but they are sources.

 

Diabetes in a can
>The picture gets worse when you add sugar to the soft drink. The sugar,
dissolved in liquid, is quickly carried to the
bloodstream, where its presence in overload quantities signals the
pancreas to go into overdrive. The pancreas has no way of knowing if
this sugar inrush is a single dose or the front-end of a sustained dose.
The assumption in the body's chemical controls is the worst-case
scenario. To prevent nerve damage from oxidation, the pancreas pumps out
as much insulin as it can. Even so, it may not prevent nerve damage.
> 
>But, this heroic effort of the pancreas has a hefty downside. The jolt of
insulin causes the body to reduce the testosterone in the bloodstream,
and to depress further production of it. In both men and women,
testosterone is the hormone that controls the depositing of calcium in
the bones. You can raise testosterone through weight-bearing exercise,
but if you are chemically depressing it via massive sugar intake (it
takes very small quantities of sugar to constitute a massive intake,
because refined sugar is not
something the human body is equipped to handle), then your body won't
add calcium to the bones.
>Add this  to what we discussed above, and you can see that drinking sweetened
colas is a suicidal endeavor. And now you know why bone damage formerly
apparent only in the very old is now showing up in teenagers.

 Cancer in a can

In the spring of 2005, research showed a strong correlation between esophageal cancer and the drinking of carbonated beverages. We aren't providing extensive detail here yet, because the subject is still rolling through the medical community. Basically, it works like this:
> 
>You drink soda.
>It makes you burp (acid reflux, actually).
>The burping carries acid into the esophagus, causing lesions.
>The lesions become cancerous.
> 
>So, maybe it's not so bad if you sip sodas instead of guzzle them. By the
time this issue settles out through double blind studies (rather than
statistical analysis only), that is probably what researchers will
conclude. It's common sense.

Of  course, the soft drink companies have conducted their own flawed studies
using flawed methods to obtain the flawed results they want. This way,
they can deny that their toxic products also cause esophageal cancer in
addition to other diseases their beverages cause. I wonder if these
folks have flawed sleep at night, or if they are just psychopathic?
>
>Do a Yahoo or Google search on soft drinks + esophageal
cancer, and you'll get several thousand pages of results. Most of the
articles say soft drinks "may" cause esophageal cancer. And that's
true--in the sense that lying down on a railroad track "may" get you run
over by a train or holding a revolver with one bullet in it and pulling
the trigger "may" blow your brains out. It's a game of chance. How many
chances do you want to take?
> 
>You can search online for data on the number of esophageal cancer cases per year and
the startling increase in this cancer occurring with the huge ramp-up in soft drink consumption. This disease was unheard of two generations
ago--now, it's common. You can also search for the source reports and articles. But, that's not really necessary because basic science is at
work here:
> 
>Mechanical damage to cells is a huge risk factor for cancer. It's why asbestos particles, for example, cause lung cancer. 
> 
>Soft drinks cause acid reflux (stomach acid rising up past the esophageal valve).
This is more pronounced when the body is horizontal (as in sleeping), but the sheer volume of soft drinks consumed in the USA means the acid
reflux is well past the danger point. Any time you ingest a gassy drink, you are going to get belching--and acid into the esophagus. How much is too much? The research doesn't say where the limit is--it only shows that most Americans are far, far, far past it. 
> 
>Stomach acid dissolves tissue--that's its purpose. The stomach lining does not extend into the esophagus, so the lower esophagus gets damaged by acid far more frequently in soft drink users than in non soft drink users.

This results in a radical increase in cell mutations, along with a far higher level of free radicals.
> 
>This isn't an attack on the Coca-Cola or Pepsi corporations. It's a revealing of the truth about all carbonated
beverages. This has been widely reported in many authoritative sources.

Remember, soft drinks kill.
> Stop doing acid!
>Reader Jim Faulkner contributed the following to this article:
> 
>Refer to "The pH Miracle", Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health, written by Robert O Young, PhD and Shelley Redford Young (copyright 2002 by Robert Young, PhD, published by Warner Books Inc.)
>We all know that our average body temperature is about 98.6 degrees F.,
but how many of us know our normal pH (Power of Hydrogen scale which
measures Hydrogen from 0 to 14)? A rating of 7 is neutral. Healthy human
bodies should be slightly alkaline at 7.365. Whenever
your body moves away from 7.365, your system takes action to move you
back to that value.
>
>Water in most areas has a value of 7 or neutral. Carbonated drinks have a value of about 2.8, but the
difference isn't just 4.2. The pH scale values vary exponentially. As
the scale moves from 7 to 6, the difference is multiplied by 10. Food or
beverage at 6 is 10 times as acidic as that at 7. So "that" carbonated
beverage is approaching 100,000 times more acidic than water. With this
information, the osteoporosis condition takes on greater LIGHT.
>
>Ron Howell, a senior vice president at New Vision Inc elaborates on these ideas in "New Vision News Magazine" Vol 1 -issue 4 2002 in introducing new products that improve pH.
>
>My wife Jan is an Diamond Independent Distributor with New Vision. She is 71
(married 50 years, May 2003). I read everything they send to her. We have both done the Bill Phillips "Body For Life" program since my 69th birthday, and we ballroom dance three nights a week. Neither of us take any pharmaceutical drugs. Life is good!
>
>Kindest regards, Jim Faulkner
>
>Let's compare soft drinks to water: 
> Soft drinks
>
>Water
> 
>1. The salt in these "beverages" may reduce the amount of water in your
cells. Salt increases dehydration, which is why sailors don't drink
seawater.
>2. The
National Institute of Health reports that 75% of Americans are
chronically dehydrated. However, this figure is likely understated.
>
>In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
> Even
mild dehydration will slow down your metabolism, speed up aging, reduce
resistance to disease, and reduce muscle recovery after exercise.
>
>3. The sugar in these "beverages" (other than the diet kind) increases hunger.
>
>4.
One glass of water shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of
the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
>
>5. All sodas promote the symptoms shown in the box at right. The insulin response from the sugary versions compounds them.
>
>6. Lack of water is a major trigger of daytime fatigue, mid-day munchies, leg and toe cramps, and inability to mentally focus.
>
>7. The obesity and nutritional deficiencies typically
suffered by heavy soda drinkers bring on back and joint pain.
>
>8. Research indicates drinking half a gallon of water a day would significantly ease back and joint pain for 80% of sufferers.
>
>9. Sodas cause the body to lose water, thereby promoting the symptoms shown at right.
>
>10. A 2% drop in the amount of water retained in the body (other than as
subcutaneous or intercellular water due to excess sodium) can trigger
fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty
focusing on printed or video text.
>
>
>11. The various colorings and other substances in sodas aren't noted for cancer prevention.
>
>12. The NIH says drinking a quart of water daily reduces the risk of colon cancer by 45%, reduces the risk of
breast cancer by 79%, reduces the risk of bladder cancer by 50%.
>    
>Amazing facts about Soft Drink maker Coca Cola
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola 
> 
>I found all the above info within 10 minutes!!!!    There's more!!!!
>GOOGLE - this:   "Poison in soft drinks"
>

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