Research out of Georgetown University recently criticizes a major staple in the diets of millions of people all over the world.
And not even critics of the Bloomberg soda ban can dispute the science behind this new study…that may deliver a punch to the financial chops of major beverage producers.
Find out who is in the diabetes hot seat now by reading on, and please join in the discussion that follows…
In a study conducted by Georgetown University, and released by major Wall Street banking industry Credit Suisse, beverage superpowers like Coke and Pepsi are targeted as major factors in the drastic surge of type 2 diabetes cases roaring around the globe.
The head of Credit Suisse research department Global Equity said, “We found that 90 percent of doctors in the United States, U.K. and Asia are convinced that excessive sugar consumption causes Type 2 diabetes.”
How does this relate to soft drink juggernauts Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co?
Well, recently data released by health advocate groups has suggested that type 2 diabetes has outpaced even obesity as the key concern for biggest health risks- showing that you don’t have to be overweight to be at risk for developing the preventable disease.
Billions of dollars are made each year by soft drink makers, whose 12-ounce drinks can contain as much as 10 teaspoons of sugar per can. The recommended daily intake for healthy, active people is not more than 6-8 teaspoons for the entire day. Many people will drink many more than 12 ounces in a single serving, as with the giant cups New York Mayor Bloomberg tried in vain to eliminate.
A strange dynamic in consumer attitude thus emerges. While consumers in general hold the individual responsible for obesity, attributing it as a lifestyle condition and not a disease, they view diabetes as a disease that is fueled and profited on by major beverage corporations.
The analogy has been brought up that it is no different than tobacco companies profiting on the preventable deaths and health disasters caused by their products.
What does this mean to Wall Street? As soon as sugared beverages become as socially unacceptable as cigarettes, those who are contributing to the diabetes epidemic with aggressive marketing schemes, putting profit ahead of health, will be in the crosshairs of consumer’s “kick the habit” list.
Problem for the soda manufacturers is that their drinks are deliberately designed to be addictive.
Which is worse than the conduct by tobacco manufacturers.
Still, it’s legal, but these people are wealthy on the backs of consumers and the health costs are born by the total community.
Governments would be within their rights to tax these unhealthy products and use the money to keep the health system going.
I agree
“Problem for the soda manufacturers is that their drinks are deliberately designed to be addictive.”
The other major Problem is Drink to Remove acid reflux. It creates the problem and makes it worse.
If Governments can Mark on the Packet of tobacco they cause a health issue why not mark soda in that way.
Likewise euthanasia is not legal but governments world wide either do nothing or promote illness through poor nutrition. It still is murder!
Grapes are full of sugar, fructose being the name of sugars that fruit produces, because fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion from the pancreas as does glucose-containing carbohydrate foods like bread and pasta, people who know this believe that fruit must be healthier. But there is a snag, our bodies produce a hormone called ‘leptin’ which controls weight gain: the more leptin produced the less weight is put on.The production of leptin is regulated by insulin responses to meals. Thus fructose, by reducing insulin, also reduces circulating leptin concentrations.
Dr. Sharon Elliot and colleagues at the universities of California and Pennsylvania, say that the combined effects of insulin and lowered leptin in individuals who eat diets that are high in dietary fructose(fruits) could increase the likelihood of weight gain and associated conditions. In addition, they point out that fructose, compared with glucose, is preferentially metabolized to fat in the liver. In animal studies fructose has been shown to induce insulin resistance, impair glucose tolerance and raise blood levels of insulin and triglycerides, as well as raising blood pressure, although the figures are not so clear in humans. Nevertheless, there are human data that suggests that eating more fructose may be detrimental in terms of increased fat storage and body weight and the illnesses associated with the metabolic syndrome.
Sugars from whatever source generates insulin in the body, insulin being a hormone that can, in significant quantities cause huge disruption in the body leading to all kinds of problems. i.e, Diabetes is now a plague in the ‘civilised ‘world, and why, because most people live on mainly a carbohydrate diet, the Doctor will tell tham to eat more fruit and vegetables, but they are carbohydrates too, in fact they could be worse for diabetics. The best solution is to take away the need for the cells to put up resistance in the first place by giving insulin less of a job to do. As ALL dietary carbohydrates, whether it is bread, pasta, breakfast cereals, sugar or fruit, and whatever its glyceamic index, ultimately reaches the blood as glucose, the best way to reduce the need for increased insulin is to reduce dietary carbohydrate. And we also need to reduce our intakes of the cheap, engineered dietary oils and margarines.These two elements of our modern diet are a recipe for disaster.
The evidence of how bad our diet is; we have the sickest society ever known, plagued by a plethora of diseases, caused mainly by a greedy corporate mafia who sell the most poisonous foods to the masses.
Never in the history of the human family has there been a system of health care as there are now, especially across the industrialised world. Never in the history of mankind has there been as many plagues or as many people sick with a plethora of diseases as there are today that are infecting hundreds of millions across continents and have been killing those same millions for decades. Plagues of the past came and went, infecting one particular land or continent and disapppearing as quickly as it came. Now we have plagues established in stone across the globe that have become acceptable to many people’s as though they were a natural part of life. Most of the modern day plagues are not of the outward contagious type, but the more subtle, and just as deadly, eroding the individuals health through “natural” means, i.e. the water supply, the food supply, the air we breath, even by the “medicines” that are supposed to protect us. All these modern day plagues go against those pattern of plagues of the previous millenia. It all points to a well thought out sophisticated agenda to terminate millions so subtly and acceptably as to make it a normal part of life. That mental indoctrination of acceptance is a sickness in itself and shows how far mankind has capitulated to the powers that be, and have abdicated our own responsibility for our own health and handed that responsibility to others.
PROBLEM – REACTION – SOLUTION.
The establishment creates the problem, the reaction from joe public brings a solution from the establishment, all controlled by the establishment from start to finish, as they seek to control and rule according to their greedy goals of domination.
No greater Problem – Reaction – Solution do you find than that in the medical monster created by those in government and their corporate masters who are the owners of all that makes society what it is.
The following information is taken from the book “Trick and Treat by a Barry Groves.”
THE RELIGION OF HEALTH.
Medical politics has slowly assumed the trappings of a religion whose dogmas we are expected to follow without question. Doctors and nutritionists have become health priests whose verdicts we must accept blindly. School teachers, elected and appointed public health officials, TV and radio pundits, even TV chefs and chat show hosts, have become lay-preachers so that they, too, can help to spread the gospel. People cannot be blamed for acquiescing as many have received this indoctrination since childhood, just as happens in other religions. And anyone who objects and tries to preach a different gospel is ridiculed, ostracized, and vilified. This is particularly true of those within the medical profession.
The late Dr. Robert Mendelson wrote, “There’s no room for compromise because churches never compromise on canon law….in medical politics there is a rigid authoritarian power structure which can be moved only through a winner-take-all power plays. Historically. doctors who have dared to change things significantly have been ostracized and have had to sacrifice their careers in order to hold onto their ideas. Few doctors are willing to do either.
Many religions are evangelical; ‘Health’ is no different. It sets out with evangelical zeal to convert unbelievers. The lengths to which the medical establishment will go to increase its ‘congregation’ knows no limits.
Of course not all doctors are taken in. An Australian doctor, Herbert Nehrlich, summarized the financial aspect in limerick form:
Any doctor today must have stealth,
as he deals with his patients’ ill health.
Let me tell you, my friend,
what goes on in the end
is a state-sanctioned transfer of wealth.
Thank you for this very interesting and informative article.
You always have the option to cure yourself if you do not like doctors or the medical system,and avoid that state sanctioned transfer of wealth.
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I believe that sugars in soft drinks, fruit juices and high carbs contribute to Type II – Diabetes as well as lack of exercise all contribute to diabetes, as well as generally all disease which we see in this modern world i.e. diabetes, cancer, inflammation, dementia and alzheimers — thus if we improved our eating habits, we would cut way back on our general health problems. A step in the right direction without the aid of pharmaceuticals.
We are paying for these bad foods and then we are paying again after we are diagnoised with disease. We could gain years of good health, simply by cleaning up our bad habits.