Drink Water Instead of Sweetened Drinks Says New Zealand entrepreneur, Tony Fallkenstein.
Tony appeared on ‘Sunday’ Channel One, last night, 10 June, 2012, hosted by Miriama Kamo. He is campaigning for people to recognize that health will improve if water is used instead of all those sweetened drinks which children these days often drink too much of. And he is right, of course. Good water is good for you. Commercial sugary drinks are not good for you.
However, the ‘Sunday’ people interviewed ALL failed to mention that chemicals in commercial drinks and food are also very harmful to the health. (And what about the effect of vaccinations? Read Merrilyn’s later post from September 2012, entitled Link Between Obesity And Vaccinations New Study Suggests, BBC.
Commercial fizzy drinks are bad for you, because commercial sugary drinks contain not just sugar, but a host of very detrimental poisons which are equally as bad, if not worse, than the plain old sugar in those drinks.
Chemical additives can cause obesity, hyperactivity, depression, arthritis, cancer, and a lot more dreaded sicknesses.
Tony really is doing a great service to many families through his promotion of his ‘Just Water’ business. By drinking his pure water instead of sweet drinks which are laden with harmful preservatives and other chemicals, these families will run less of a risk of suffering obesity or degenerative disease later in life. Their intake of chemical poisons will be dramatically reduced because of taking commercial sweet drinks out of the daily diet and switching to water instead.
And water is GOOD FOR YOU.
Tony has given out several million dollars worth of FREE water fountains to hundreds of families, so that they can begin to enjoy drinking water instead of heading for the fruit juices and fizzy drinks in the fridge.
His idea is a real hit. Children just love to come home from school and pour themselves a nice cool water from the water fountain.
But in this latest attack on sugar, many ‘experts’ are conveniently leaving out chemical food additives as having anything at all to do with obesity. Yet the effects of these chemical additives have been known for years. These chemicals WILL cause hormonal disfunction, which can lead to obesity, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and much else.
Just look at the chemical cocktail in that flavoured drink you like to consume. Read the fine print on those drinks. Even drinks which contain real fruit juice often have added chemicals to colour, preserve, and enhance the taste. And these chemicals are mostly always bad for you.
No use buying artificially flavoured drinks with no calories – because most of these sugar substitutes are known carcenogens, and will change your hormone balance even more quickly than plain old sugar.
A medical specialist said on the programme last night that obesity is caused by something disrupting the body metabolism. He said that the main reason for obesity today is sugar, because sugar disrupts the glandular and hormonal systems of the body. He should have pointed out that chemicals in our food are ruining our health. Chemicals in our food, as well as vaccinations and unnecessary mediactions of many kinds, are actually programming us for extinction. Leaving out sugar from our diets is simply not going to save us from extermination.
I think that sugar is taking too much of the blame for the obesity and diabetes epidemics which are striking all countries in the so-called developed world. Because all the chemicals – colourings, flavourings, and preservatives, which are in these sugared drinks, are probably more to blame than sugar.
While it is not good to have too much sugar, at least it is a food. All the chemical additives which are put into fizzy drinks and other foods, are NOT foods. Many of them are carcenogens. And this is why I believe that to point the finger of blame to sugar alone is not addressing the real problem at all.
Pharmaceutical companies, and chemical manufacturers, love to blame foods as being the culprit for our maladies. Because then they can say “Take this special medication of ours which will counteract the bad effects of this food…… or ‘take this new formula to replace this food’…… or ‘we have found this brilliant new medication will bring relief to these symptoms of…arthritis…..diabetes…..”etc, etc. Which is not helping to solve the problem at all. These medications are actually adding to the overload of chemicals already in our food, and in our bodies.
Because, the fact is, that even if sugar is taken out of our diets completely, all the chemical food additives such as preservatives, colourings, and flavourings, will all still be found in most processed food.
Very good advice. I have been drinking a ton of water since I started my gym routine, and it makes a world of difference. The only downside is going to the toilet a lot 🙂 but we can live with that. Flush those toxins out! I also have not drunk sweetened drinks for years, I think they are terrible. I met 2 men in their 50’s in Europe who both had diabetes, both had been truck drivers, and both had drunk coca-cola and other soft-drinks, instead of water, during their respective careers. Soft-drinks are terrible.
Thanks Lach – Great to have your feedback. I agree – soft drinks are terrible. They are loaded, not with just sugar, but chemical additives which are probably even more harmful to your health than sugar is.
Yes, you may remember my friend, John who I met in Portugal. There was also Costi in Italy. Diabetes from softdrinks….
Yes – I remember both John and Costi. So both John and Costi were truck drivers, and both now have diabetes – on the road a lot day and night. I should imagine that the demands of this life-style means that you often rely on pies and other fast-foods for nutrition, and on the drinking of sweetened drinks to relieve the boredom and keep awake. Lots of caffeine in some of these drinks, too, as well as the preservatives, colourings, flavourings, and artificial sweeteners in those ‘diet’ type drinks. No good.