TYT: EXPOSED: Coca-Cola’s Scam To Keep Kids Drinking Soda

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Coke is shutting down a program that’s aim was to reduce childhood obesity. Critics say, however, that it’s true goal was to deemphasize the unhealthy qualities of soda and told students to focus on exercise instead. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (The Point), and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Do you drink soda? Do you think it is harmful to drink? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyhuehnergarth/2015/12/02/coca-coca-shuts-down-anti-obesity-network-but-still-teaches-energy-balance-in-schools/

“After being exposed as an industry-influenced organization, the Coke-funded anti-obesity Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) was disbanded on Monday. From the GEBN’s website:

Effective immediately, GEBN is discontinuing operations due to resource limitations. We appreciate the commitment to energy balance that the membership has demonstrated since our inception, and encourage members to continue pursuing the mission “to connect and engage multi-disciplinary scientists and other experts around the globe dedicated to applying and advancing the science of energy balance to achieve healthier living”.

But don’t shed any tears for Coca-Cola or the soda industry. The now-defunct GEBN is only one of numerous campaigns, programs and organizations that Big Soda uses to spread its unscientific message of energy balance. The soda industry is even in our schools telling children as young as two, ‘don’t drink less soda, just exercise more.’”

[Feeling the Bern]

1. Probably the worst thing you can drink, outside of alcohol, is carbonated sugar water

It's advertised for kids and all that refined sugar makes people insanely fat if not immediately burned off. But in this day of tapping, smart phones and game consoles that can (as I will quote Carlin) "make you pancakes and fondle your balls," burning off empty refined sugar calories is nearly impossible.

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2. Coke actually has more calories than beer

I don't have either in the house at the moment, but I have compared the labels in the past.

[yeoman6987]

4. This doesn't shock me

Of course Coke wants kids to drink their product. They'd be dumb to not do that.

[valerief]

3. Soda is enemy foodstuff. The sugar/stevia soda isn't as bad as the HFCS/artificial sweetner

soda, but it's all your enemy. Just shipping this useless shit pollutes the earth. Add to that all the extra plastic, which we drink, and soda just doesn't make sense.

[zebonaut]

5. These same (republican) corporations also own stock in Diabetes meds and supplies so its a win/win

for these Bastards

[SheilaT]

6. I am often horrified at how many people drink

sodas. Both the sugared and the diet ones simply aren't good for you. At the grocery store it constantly amazes me how much of that stuff people buy.

[libodem]

7. Sugar is poison

Because it's high calories but empty calories, meaning no nutritional value. No protein. No vitamins. No minerals. But your body is designed to process it by sending out insulin to manage it. Your cells survive by feeding on sugar molecules produced by digestion.
The sugar is the car. The cell is the garage. The insulin is the garage door opener. Diabetes is when you don't have enough garage door openers to feed your cells so they are screaming for food. People crave more sugar because they are starving. The sugar is left to circulate around in your blood stream causing high blood glucose. That in turn, damages organs, the little capillaries in your eyes, and your fingers and toes. Then you get neuropathy from nerve damage. Retinopathy happens to your eyes and you go blind.

The crappy thing they won't tell you about HFCS is your body doesn't recognize this man made poison as sugar, so it won't produce insulin as a response to it. So then it floats around in your blood stream doing damage until it goes true your liver and turns to stomach fat. Then you have to exercise to burn it off.
My belief is that is the crux of this new diagnosis of "insulin resistant" diabeties. It actually produces a disease because it's that bad for you.

All sugar is NOT alike. And beware they no longer must label HFCS as HFCS, it can now just be called fructose which suggests its fruit sugar. It's not. It's corn squeezings. Buyer beware.