Venezuela Bans Coke

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jmlkb7 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:02:49 GMT

Seems to me, that all these people, who are so afraid that sugar will kill them eventually, are hurrying the process with chemicals. Sugar is natural. Use your own discipline and keep healthy.

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jockjohn — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:04:06 GMT

Gimme that glass of cool, clean water with a twist of lime every time!

John

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infoholix — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:02:12 GMT

"Venezuela - leftist dictator" - comments by people who seem to form their opinion as willing servants of the US media and US oligarchy.

Being supported by a vast majority and bringing in thousands of Cuban doctors to create a free health services where there was basically none before under the US-sponsored dictators is truely a hallmark of a leftist dictatorship.

Perhaps you should talk to Americans living in Venezuela. In particular to doctors who left the US to find medical freedom, doctors who no longer want to be part of government imposed pradigmns: surgery, chemo and radiation.

You can read the "Coca Cola ban story" from a Venezuelan perspective here www.venezuelanalysis.com/.../4516

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bob13122 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:03:17 GMT

The statement that regular soft drinks contain '10 teaspoons of sugar' is misleading. Most soft drinks contain HFCS -- high-fructose corn syrup, which is used because it is cheaper than sugar. Soft drinks with sugar can be found, but they are not common. They do taste better, and the advantage of sugar is that it satiates the appetite, self-limiting its consumption. HFCS, in drinks and foods, does not, and therefore contributes to over-eating and obesity. If people stay hungry, they continue eating -- and get fat.

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gsimpkins — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:54:22 GMT

One other thing that is bad about aspartame is that it changes into formaldahyde as it is processed in the body. It eventually becomes something equally harmful and disgusting at the end of it's break down in our bodies. But it does go thru the formaldahyde stage for a period of time. Imagine drinking that sludge every day! No wonder poor Michael J Fox is so sick. He is reportedly addicted to diet sodas and even his wife cannot make him quit them.

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davidhartley — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:42:44 GMT

>>Dr Rik "Venezuala is a dictatorship, if you can ban Coke, you can ban Vitamin C, it's the boss' whim, not your choice"

Sorry to disturb your warm fuzzy feeling about freedom in the US, but you SHOULD KNOW that our limited freedoms are being daily encroached on, plotted against, and usurped by multinational corporations & globalist political agendas .. funny you should mention Vitamin C. Surely you are aware Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling's work with Vitamin C .. and the concerted efforts by the $pharma medical industrial complex and it's lapdog FDA to make sure the sacred cash cow, CANCER was not threatened by any effective, inexpensive, unpatentable treatment ?

This is effectively a dictatorship .. of a remarkably evil type !

So - continuing on the topic of Vitamin C .. you must be aware (??) that the U.S. government has been plotting with globalists to restrict ALL vitamins (and pretty much any other nutrient/nutriceutical, traditional herbs, etc) as "prescription only" above some very meager RDA (recommended daily allowance) ..

There are many, many heinous medical / health issues which could not exist if we were not HIGHLY CONTROLLED by corporate-dominated mass media and similarly corporate dominated government.

If there was REAL FREEDOM in the US .. why would it have taken more than 50 years for there to finally start being some truth told about the harm done by dental mercury poisoning ?

If there was REAL FREEDOM, would "we the people" be allowing the nuclear and aluminum industries to get rid of one of their TOXIC WASTES by putting it into our municipal water supply ?!

Fluoridated water and mass vaccine innoculations are two VERY HARMFUL practices which have been forced onto the public - where is the FREEDOM ??

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Sean66 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:56:16 GMT

Everybody on this site needs to watch the video at www.thezeitgeistmovement.com.

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johndude — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:57:55 GMT

Stevia facts: FDA gives GRAS to extracts of the stevia leaf but NOT to the Stevia ! Am I the only person who thinks this is wrong?

Steviol glycosides – the extract of the leaves of the plant Stevia rebaudiana – are a group of intense sweeteners.

Stevia, which is permitted for sale in the US as a dietary supplement on the basis of its low glycemic index, is yet to receive FDA GRAS status for use in food and beverages.

The US market for stevia is estimated to be worth about $60m, a figure analysts say could triple with FDA GRAS. Currently the biggest markets for stevia are Japan and Korea.

In July, it was announced that PepsiCo has joined with the Whole Earth Sweetener Company (a subsidiary of Merisant Company) to launch its rebiana sweetener PureVia.

Meanwhile Coca-Cola has teamed up with Cargill to use its rebiana brand, called Truvia.

Cargill and Merisant have notified the FDA that rebiana should be GRAS. UPDATE: FDA gave GRAS to Truvia but still not to stevia itself!

Leslie Curry, director of regulatory and scientific affairs, Cargill Food Ingredients and Systems, told this website: "Rebaudioside A is clearly a food ingredient."

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johndude — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:34:17 GMT

ALERT ! There is a newer artificial sweetener and is fooling everyone; Truvia; which is DERIVED from part of the STEVIA leaf. FDA will not approve stevia for use in food. The FDA has approved Truvia, which is basically a chemically altered/processed sweetener that is using the word STEVIA to make people think it is natural.

FDA will not allow a safe natural sweetener made from a plant (stevia)>>>>>>FDA allows a chemically altered version of the plant and DOES NOT REQUIRE THE SAME LEVEL OF TESTING FOR SAFETY. Say hello to Truvia, which can be patented unlike the natural stevia leaf.

Hardly anyone is talking about this! Truvia is starting to replace current artificial sweeteners.

Please read excerps from this article which came out BEFORE Truvia was approved, The source for this article was the Center for Science in the Public Interest (see negative article on Stevia)

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FDA ATTACK ON STEVIA

Around 1987, FDA inspectors began visiting herb companies who were selling stevia, telling them to stop using it because it is an "unapproved food additive". By mid 1990 several companies had been visited. In one case FDA's inspector reportedly told a company president they were trying to get people to stop using stevia "because Nutra Sweet complained to FDA." The Herb Research Foundation(HRF), which has extensive scientific files on stevia, became concerned and filed a Freedom of Information Act request with FDA for information about contacts between Nutra Sweet and FDA about stevia. It took over a year to get any information from the FDA, but the identity of the company who prompted the FDA action was masked by the agency.

In May, 1991 FDA acted by imposing an import alert on stevia to prevent it from being imported into the US. They also began formally warning companies to stop using the "illegal" herb. By the beginning of 1991, the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) was working to defend stevia. At their general meeting at Natural Products Expo West, members of the industry pledged most of the needed funds to support work to convince FDA of the safety of stevia. AHPA contracted HRF to produce a professional review of the stevia literature. The review was conducted by Doug Kinghorn, PhD., one of the world's leading authorities on stevia and other natural non-nutritive sweeteners. Dr. Kinghorn's report was peer-reviewed by several other plant safety experts and concluded that historical and current common use of stevia, and the scientific evidence all support the safety of this plant for use in foods. Based on this report, and other evidence, AHPA filed a petition with FDA in late October asking FDA's "acquiescence and concurrence" that stevia leaf is exempt from food additive regulations and can be used in foods.

FDA, apparently attempting to regulate this herb as they would a new food additive, contends that there is inadequate evidence to approve stevia. However, because of its use in Japan, there is much more scientific evidence of stevia's safety than for most foods and additives. The extent of evidence FDA is demanding for the approval of stevia, far exceeds that which has been required to approve even new synthetic food chemicals like aspartame (Nutra Sweet).

AHPA's petition points out that FDA's food additive laws were meant to protect consumers from synthetic chemicals added to food. FDA is trying, in the case of stevia to claim that stevia is the same as a chemical food additive. But as the AHPA petition points out, Congress did not intend food additive legislation to regulate natural constituents of food itself. In fact, Congressman Delaney said in 1956, "There is hardly a food sold in the market today which has not had some chemicals used on or in it at some stage in its production, processing, packaging, transportation or storage." He stressed that his proposed bill was to assure the safety of "new chemicals that are being used in our daily food supply," and when asked if the regulations would apply to whole foods, he replied "No, to food chemicals only." AHPA contends that stevia is a food, which is already recognized as safe because of its long history of food use. Foods which have a long history of safe use are exempted by law from the extensive laboratory tests required of new food chemicals. The AHPA petition, however, supports the safe use of stevia with both the historical record, and references to the numerous toxicology studies conducted during the approval process in Japan, and studies by interested researchers in other countries.

To date, the FDA still refuses to allow stevia to be sold in the U.S. but the recently-enacted Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 may prevent the FDA from treating stevia and other natural herbs as "food additives."

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The source for our locating this article was the Center for Science in the Public Interest (see negative article on Stevia)

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Tiger_Lily — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:07:16 GMT

Saccharin has been in use for over a hundred years. We were traveling to our Mother Lode area, and in one museum they had a bottle of saccharin that was over a hundred years old. The docent of the museum let us taste it, and it was still sweet after all of those years. hmmmm......

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DrNoCola — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:26:41 GMT

Full disclosure: I am not a lawyer, attorney, or barrister...

However; my interpretation of the Delaney Amendment indicates that the FDA should be banned – taken off the market. Hey, it is toxic, carcinogenic, and has killed and/or harmed millions of Americans. I rest my case.

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curious7 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:26:10 GMT

Some of the nations that act like rogues, have a point in not allowing the Capitalists to run wild. With all the garbage on the market today, who is watching the baby?

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Speakers12 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:53:57 GMT

I was raised with a diabetic and my home was full of artificially sweetened products. Oh, how I wish that stuff never entered my body. Great article!

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Katee Roux — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:13:44 GMT

I came across this link recently: www.diabetes.org/.../diet-soda-linked-to-higher-health-risks.jsp

Even the diabetes association recognizes that artificial sweeteners are a problem. Wish they'd work harder to get this into mainstream media. Worthless wish, i know. They won't publish data that is in conflict of the profits of the corporations that pay for them.

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JustWondrin1 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:05:09 GMT

"It’s an interesting coincidence, for example, that 1969 was also the year that G. D. Searle, the manufacturer of aspartame (NutraSweet) first applied for an FDA patent, just a few years after it had been discovered (by way of an accidental spill of chemicals onto chemist James M. Schlatter’s finger, which he then licked)."

The article doesn't mention that Searle was trying to formulate poison to kill insects. Nutrasweet is a poison!