Revealed the Untold Danger of Sugar Free Drinks.
Most people would now agree that coke and other soft drinks are bad for your health but what about the ever expanding range fat free, sugar free sodas that are now flooding the shelfs. Are they good for me?….. or are they still bad but better than normal full strength soft drinks that can contain over thirty tea spoons of sugar lastly if there’s no sugar what actually makes it sweet.
These question alone are enough to make anyone confused but lets start with the basics of what are in this drinks that make the taste sweet even if they have no sugar. All of these drinks use what called an artificial sweeter which is basically a chemical that tricks the brain to thinking its sweet just like sugar. There are many artificial sweeters but the most common is aspartame.
What is Aspartame
Aspartame consist of two amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid and was discovered by accident in 1965 by James Schlatter a chemist working on a anti ulcer drug, he discovered its sweet taste by licking his fingers. One of the least known and scariest facts about aspartame is that in initial testing aspartame was proven to cause cancer in rats which lead to the banning of the dangerous chemical for many years. Unfortunately the drug company conducted their own studies clearing it of any link to cancer which lead to the approval for use in dry foods which later lead to the use in drinks like we see to day. Other side affect of aspartame include blindness,hearing loss, tremors, depression, high blood pressure and aspartame has also been linked to birth defects.
So you must be thinking the same thing I was think thinking when I first heard this how can they get away with selling this stuff…… the truth is at the end of the day the voices of the food companies are much louder than anyone else’s and the sugar free fat free industry is worth billions. A simple fact of life is that money will always be more important than profits in the eyes of the big food and beverage Champagnes who at the end of the day would sell heroin to children if they could get away with it. The same question can be asked about tobacco which has been proven beyond all doubt kills people, which the government could make illegal tomorrow but they are making way to much money from it the fact nearly half the cost of packet of cigarettes is tax from the government. Which is funny because the government 4 or 5 million on a anti smoking ad campaign but collect 100 times that in taxes.
At the end of the day if you don’t buy diet soda or cigarettes they would not be around because they would be no money to made on it. Which may be the the only hope for these products to be taken off the selves.
Josh Panebianco
Sydney Active Personal Training
