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Stop Drinking Coke
Re: Stop Drinking Coke
by qwerty » Thu 28 Sep 2006, 22:42:36
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EndOfSewers', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'b')ack on topic though:... kinda, I hear that aspartame is bad on the sex drive. it fills you with so much toxin and makes you generally ill. I also heard that it can make you fat because your body stores fat top dilute the toxins.
This is comedy gold right here. Whoever you heard this from needs a punch in the nuts for being so stupid, and whoever believes it needs the same for being so gullible. Also a few courses in physiology and biochemistry so they'll have enough knowledge to recognize rank, gibbering horse shit when they hear it. Which would save them from deserving a punch in the nuts.
EndOfSewers,
OPEN up your eyelids and SHUT your trap.
Start reading and quit yapping...
There is no respect in being a spokemans for the EVIL SATANIC COKE Co. and no honor in talking fictional shit...
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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')oca-Cola Declares War on Water
Your body needs water, and lots of it! But if you're drinking water, according to the way Coca-Cola once thought, you're not drinking a Coke, and that's bad for business. The solution? Declare war on water.
August, 2001: Coca-Cola announces the launch of an assault against tap water in restaurants, code-named "H2No." (No, I'm not making this up...) They begin with the Olive Garden restaurants, describing customers' ordering of water as a kind of affliction. From their own site, "Olive Garden restaurants... were facing a high water incidence rate." (emphasis added).
A "high water incidence rate?" Sounds bad, doesn't it? Sounds like an insidious anthrax attack. To combat this threat, they came up with their "water reduction plan." This plan involved the re-education of waiters to suggest a "profitable beverage" in place of water. Olive Garden restaurants, according to the Coke site, liked the program so much that they incorporated it into their monthly skills training exercises. "Here's a new skill, folks, we're going to force all our customer to order a coke before they die of thirst..."
Believe it or not, they even developed an employee incentive contest, based on how much Coke the restaurant servers could get customers to drink. The program was called, "Just Say No to H2O" and it's sort of like a college frat game where you see how much beer you can get the new pledges to drink in one night, without actually killing them. (Because if they're dead, you can't force them to clean up the frat house the next morning...)
If it sounds like madness, you're right! Giving consumers a choice of drinks is considered polite; declaring war on water is something altogether different. The slogans chosen by Coca-Cola weren't pro-Coke, they were anti-water. "Just Say No to H2O" sounds sort of like the cry of a political rally. Just imagine a herd of overweight Coca-cola executives marching around outside Olive Garden restaurants, holding up signs and declaring that water is actually BAD for you.
As waiters were selling more Coke to customers, profits were flowing into the restaurants -- and into Coca-Cola's coffers -- but what about the health cost of drinking soft drinks? It is well known that consumption of soft drinks is a strong contributing factor in obesity -- a condition that, according to former Surgeon General David Satcher, causes 300,000 deaths each year and $117 billion in unnecessary health bills from diseases like diabetes and clogged arteries. Heck, that's almost as much as Coca-cola spends on advertising and celebrity endorsements! "Hi, I'm a well known sports celebrity with the brain of a naked mole rat. And I drink Coke!"
Today, there's really no question that soft drink consumption directly promotes a variety of chronic diseases. For starters, here's evidence of how soft drink consumption multiplies a person's risk of diabetes. (See http://www.newstarget.com/001614.html for a summary.)
And just this year, new research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition linking the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup (the primary sweetener in soft drinks) with both diabetes and obesity: http://www.newstarget.com/001054.html
Clearly, soft drinks are a hazard to the health of any individual (intelligent or otherwise) who chooses to consume them. Some of the other health effects now being attributed to soft drinks include loss of bone density, blood acidosis, kidney stress, immune system suppression, ADHD and even dramatic mood swings -- these are the claims by well-known health and nutrition authors, including many prominent MDs.
As the profits flow into Coca-Cola, who pays the cost for the health effects caused by Coca-Cola products? You guessed it: you do. The consumer foots the bill not only for the product, but also for the doctor, hospital and insurance costs that inevitably appear as a result of consuming this health-harming beverage. I'm just guessing, but for every dollar a person spends on soft drinks, there might be as much as $4 - $5 in long-term costs to society.
Not surprisingly, Coca-Cola's "H2No" web pages didn't stay on their site for very long. They were taken down on August 2, 2001 and haven't re-appeared since. Apparently, they no longer want to be known as the "anti-water" company. Because that would be, well, stupid. More importantly, it would go against their brand spankin' new product offering -- get this -- water!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')oke: the drink of a dumbed-down population
All I can say is that the lower your IQ, the more likely you are to consume large quantities of soft drinks. In my opinion, coke is the drink of the dumbed-down; the elixir of ignorance, the beverage of boneheads. Smart people drink far more sophisticated drinks -- like Starbucks coffee. (And you can tell they're smart by how they happily pay four bucks for a fifty-cent cup of java.) And the really smart people in society drink red wine. Did I say smart? I meant snotty.
Regardless, Coca-Cola maintains a prominent place in American history. It's pure Americana. After all, what could better describe American culture than a heavily marketed beverage originally based on hard drugs that now contributes to the diabetes and obesity of an entire nation? It's the classic American saga: a lean, healthy immigrant comes to America, settles down in the Bronx, starts buying soft drinks, and pretty soon gives birth to an entire generation of overweight children who chug coke and occasionally get outside to participate in the "Walk for the Diabetes Cure," also sponsored by coke.
What could be more American than that?
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