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Dave Chance
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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:42 pm Post subject: Coke and Pepsi alter amount of carcinogen |
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http://www.japantoday.com/category/health/view/coke-pepsi-make-changes-to-avoid-cancer-warning-2
WASHINGTON �
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have lowered levels of a chemical in caramel coloring to comply with a California law, but insisted the drinks pose no health risks and recipes will not change.
The move allows the companies to avoid having to label products with a cancer warning due to what the health-conscious west coast state has ruled are high levels of 4-methylimidazole, shown to cause cancer in lab rodents.
Both drinkmakers said their popular and highly secretive soda recipes will not be altered but that caramel suppliers have been asked to reduce 4-MEI levels in California, a change that will eventually spread across the United States. |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| It'll still rot your teeth, though. Carbonated soft drinks.... few things have ever done so little for so many people. |
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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Been a boon to certain industialists and their cronies, 'tho...which unfortunately makes a lot of people look like dupes |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| One of the best favours you could ever do for yourself is forgo the bloody awful stuff. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Sure, it's safe...There's so much sugar in soft drinks that drinking as little as one glass per week is enough to increase the chances of developing pancreatic cancer. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| One of the best favours you could ever do for yourself is forgo the bloody awful stuff. |
Its supposed to be like ice cream, a treat done twice a month at most. |
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johnnyenglishteacher2
Joined: 03 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:31 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| One of the best favours you could ever do for yourself is forgo the bloody awful stuff. |
Its supposed to be like ice cream, a treat done twice a month at most. |
One of the saddest things I've ever seen was a kid who drank a litre a day. By the age of 8 he had nothing left for teeth except little black stumps. |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| johnnyenglishteacher2 wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| One of the best favours you could ever do for yourself is forgo the bloody awful stuff. |
Its supposed to be like ice cream, a treat done twice a month at most. |
One of the saddest things I've ever seen was a kid who drank a litre a day. By the age of 8 he had nothing left for teeth except little black stumps. |
I knew a kid like that back in grade school (used to freak me out seeing his mouth full of rotten teeth)... Hopefully they turned a new leaf once their adult teeth came in...
I've known a few people back home who would guzzle a litre or more of the stuff each day, like it's water. Whenever they're thirsty they just crack open some cola (which of course probably makes them more thirsty, so they drink even more). One guy I know has a whole garbage can that's just full of just empty cans (must go through like a case every couple days). All that high-fructose corn syrup and acid gumming up their system, it's got to be one of the most unhealthy things to do. Boggles my mind how some people can be so oblivious... |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
| johnnyenglishteacher2 wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| One of the best favours you could ever do for yourself is forgo the bloody awful stuff. |
Its supposed to be like ice cream, a treat done twice a month at most. |
One of the saddest things I've ever seen was a kid who drank a litre a day. By the age of 8 he had nothing left for teeth except little black stumps. |
I knew a kid like that back in grade school (used to freak me out seeing his mouth full of rotten teeth)... Hopefully they turned a new leaf once their adult teeth came in...
I've known a few people back home who would guzzle a litre or more of the stuff each day, like it's water. Whenever they're thirsty they just crack open some cola (which of course probably makes them more thirsty, so they drink even more). One guy I know has a whole garbage can that's just full of just empty cans (must go through like a case every couple days). All that high-fructose corn syrup and acid gumming up their system, it's got to be one of the most unhealthy things to do. Boggles my mind how some people can be so oblivious... |
The first year I lived in Korea, one of my co-workers was my roommate. He was from Georgia, and like any good native son of the state, drank a ton of Coke. He would drink one of those big bottles (is it 1.5 liters in Korea? I forget) every couple days. Throw in the fact he was an alcoholic that would get completely shitfaced a few times a week, and yeah, he was just a model of great health. He did a great job of fitting the stereotype of a fat ass American. We were about 5 years apart in age, but he looked like he was a good 10 years older than me. |
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