Drink your drug

Skybird · 05-23-09, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Do you have a source for this Sky?

Various German newspapers. For example:
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/articl...en-Kokain.html
Currently, RB gets officially classified as a narcotic, and a violation to current food-law. However, the main issue about RB is not that it is considered to be a serious risk to health, but violating these laws. I personally consider the ammount of phosphate in Coca Cola as more health-threatening (and as a health risk: widely underestimated). But good for me that I hate the taste of RB - and most softdrinks - anyway, with the exception of Cola.

It's so bad that Coca Cola tastes so good. Both that ridiculous amount of white sugar and of phosphate make it a really bad thing. Why must the healthy things often be so boring in taste, more expensive and taking longer time to prepare, and the easy, cheap, tasty things often so bad for your health?

Kapitan_Phillips · 05-23-09, 04:16 PM

Red Bull gives you wings.

Cocaine gives you:

Michelle Pfeiffer.

Wait..what?

kiwi_2005 · 05-23-09, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Red Bull gives you wings.

Cocaine gives you:

Michelle Pfeiffer.

Wait..what?

Gwad Michelle Pfeiffer was a babe back in the day, i seen her in a recent movie and she still looks good for her age.

Highbury · 05-23-09, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

It's so bad that Coca Cola tastes so good. Both that ridiculous amount of white sugar and of phosphate make it a really bad thing. Why must the healthy things often be so boring in taste, more expensive and taking longer time to prepare, and the easy, cheap, tasty things often so bad for your health?

Coca Cola does not use white sugar, I worked at the Richmond, BC. CCE (Coca Cola Enterprises) plant for 14 years. Depending on the market it is produced for it contains Fructose or Isoglucose (called High-Fructose corn syrup in the US). Nowhere do they use Sucrose (white sugar) alone.

As for the Red Bull issue in Germany, here is an article in English for those that could not read the other one:
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090523-19457.html

Skybird · 05-24-09, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Highbury

Coca Cola does not use white sugar, I worked at the Richmond, BC. CCE (Coca Cola Enterprises) plant for 14 years. Depending on the market it is produced for it contains Fructose or Isoglucose (called High-Fructose corn syrup in the US). Nowhere do they use Sucrose (white sugar) alone.

Yes, that turns it into a health drink!

Skybird · 05-24-09, 05:38 AM

Fructose causes a slower rise of blood sugar, but regarding body fatness it is as critical as Saccharose, since it affects the body'S carbohydrate metabolsim for the negative, and gets transformed into fat even faster than Saccharose. Also, a significant part of the population cannot absorb fructose, or only insufficently, so that it gets accumulated in the intestine where it increases/feeds germ growth, which then has negative conseqeunces for the functionality and sensitivity of the immune-system.

Therefore, Fructose is demanded to be banned from public selling, activists even want it to be no longer classified as a type of food. The wide-spread belief that it is the "better sugar" and serves nice as a sugar-surrogate for diabetics, is wrong. Maybe that is becasue many people mix the meaning of fructose, glucose, sucrose wildly and do not really know the different meanings (I struggle myself, too).

Isoglucose is familiar to socalled invert sugar, that is saccharose that got split into glucose and fructose.

It'S running around words, even if there are differences: that does not make it any less damaging to health. I wish it would, but it doesn't.

Lesson learned: have soft drinks rarely only. I have maybe one bottle of Coca Cola Zero (sweetener) per month, maybe even less. But when I have, I enjoy it.

05-24-09, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Lesson learned: have soft drinks rarely only. I have maybe one bottle of Coca Cola Zero (sweetener) per month, maybe even less. But when I have, I enjoy it.

Drinking large amounts of basically anything is detrimental to your health, hell drink enough water and you'll keel over.

Frame57 · 05-24-09, 12:45 PM

I know quite a few doctors in my profession as well as having gone through this. Kidney stones....Oh are they fun...Anyway, it appears that the carmel coloring in many products including colas cause kidney stones. Another reason to avoid cokes and pepsis if one has a disposition to that.

talesofvalor · 05-24-09, 12:49 PM

I've also seen a drink called "Swiss Canabis".

Skybird · 05-24-09, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Rilder

Drinking large amounts of basically anything is detrimental to your health, hell drink enough water and you'll keel over.

What kind of wisdom should this be? Deleting any quality difference between consuming water when you're thirsty, and consuming tons of sugar?

Fatness in the west is spreading pandemic. and it is not about people eating too much, but eating the wrong kind of stuff. Sugar. Salt. Bad fats and oils. White flour. Too much meat. And not eating enough of what physiologically is needed: roughage/dietary fibre for example. Vegetable. Unreffined grain. Most industrial food, convenience food, should be labelled as poisenous and hazardous to your health. That's is no exaggeration, that is the simple truth. Fatness, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases - all this witnesses that we are eating too bad food. And increasingly we find hints and evidence for typical diseases of higher age being influenced by bad diet habits as well: Parkinson, Altzheimer.

Blacklight · 05-24-09, 01:31 PM

You can still buy Dr. Pepper from it's original plant made with the original recipe that uses cane sugar instead of corn syrup.

FIREWALL · 05-24-09, 01:35 PM

When in Mexico don't drink the water.

When in the mountains don't eat the yellow snow.

:rotfl:

05-23-09, 04:16 PM	#2
Kapitan_Phillips Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Swansea Posts: 3,903 Downloads: 204 Uploads: 0	Red Bull gives you wings. Cocaine gives you: Michelle Pfeiffer. Wait..what? __________________ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.

05-24-09, 05:38 AM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,830 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Fructose causes a slower rise of blood sugar, but regarding body fatness it is as critical as Saccharose, since it affects the body'S carbohydrate metabolsim for the negative, and gets transformed into fat even faster than Saccharose. Also, a significant part of the population cannot absorb fructose, or only insufficently, so that it gets accumulated in the intestine where it increases/feeds germ growth, which then has negative conseqeunces for the functionality and sensitivity of the immune-system. Therefore, Fructose is demanded to be banned from public selling, activists even want it to be no longer classified as a type of food. The wide-spread belief that it is the "better sugar" and serves nice as a sugar-surrogate for diabetics, is wrong. Maybe that is becasue many people mix the meaning of fructose, glucose, sucrose wildly and do not really know the different meanings (I struggle myself, too). Isoglucose is familiar to socalled invert sugar, that is saccharose that got split into glucose and fructose. It'S running around words, even if there are differences: that does not make it any less damaging to health. I wish it would, but it doesn't. Lesson learned: have soft drinks rarely only. I have maybe one bottle of Coca Cola Zero (sweetener) per month, maybe even less. But when I have, I enjoy it. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 05-24-09 at 05:50 AM.

05-24-09, 12:45 PM	#8
Frame57 Sea Lord Join Date: May 2008 Location: 1300 feet on the crapper Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I know quite a few doctors in my profession as well as having gone through this. Kidney stones....Oh are they fun...Anyway, it appears that the carmel coloring in many products including colas cause kidney stones. Another reason to avoid cokes and pepsis if one has a disposition to that. __________________ "My Religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds." Albert Einstein

05-24-09, 12:49 PM	#9
talesofvalor Sailor man Join Date: May 2009 Location: Austria Posts: 47 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	I've also seen a drink called "Swiss Canabis". __________________ I stole this from Laufen zum Ziel, who stole it from Neal, who stole it from Golden Rivet, who stole it from Lance, who stole this from Task Force.

05-24-09, 01:31 PM	#11
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	You can still buy Dr. Pepper from it's original plant made with the original recipe that uses cane sugar instead of corn syrup. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

05-24-09, 01:35 PM	#12
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	When in Mexico don't drink the water. When in the mountains don't eat the yellow snow. :rotfl: __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???