COCA COLA

[maria angelica sassone]

Coca-Cola health damages

The multinational food industry engaged in producing foods with low nutritional value and high profit. The distribution networks of the soft drink industry works perfectly ensuring easy access and availability of their products at anytime and anywhere through soft drink, for example in schools, colleges, universities and other public places .
 

Cola drinks contain a substance "potentially addictive, caffeine, consumed in modest amounts (20 mg.) Is a nervous system stimulant (more if eaten cold) that produces pleasurable sensations, but if ingested in large quantities (400 to 600 mg.) can cause insomnia, tachycardia, headaches and even anxiety attacks. A can of Coca Cola contains about 50 mg. of caffeine. This substance is mostly dangerous to children.

 
Coca Cola also contains carbon dioxide, according to the AMEDEC, is an ingredient that causes "psychological addiction." In fact, drinking Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola is to drink carbon dioxide. The main color of Coca Cola is due to an additive called E-150, this has been associated with vitamin B6 is important for the metabolism of protein and blood health, lack of it can cause anemia, depression and confusion and other symptoms in addition to generating hyperactivity, low blood glucose.
 

Santa Claus does not exist, is an invention of Coca-Cola in 1931. Formerly the Russians celebrated the feast of St. Nicholas, patron saint of Russia, but in the communist era the celebration of religious holidays was practically forbidden. Ded Moroz authorities created to replace San Nicolás (a tall, slim, with long white beard who lives in the jungle). The "Father Winter" has a long coat that was blue in Soviet times but is now red with gold. Ded Moroz travels in a troika, a Russian sleigh, pulled by six horses. Meanwhile, Italian children were visited by a good witch called Befana, which gave them their gifts. And each culture with its history of character who delivers gifts to children.
 

In the indigenous municipality of Chamula, the Coca-Cola has succeeded in its strategy invades the soda cultural, political and economic. The Coca-Cola has been replaced by the "posh" (fermented maize drink) in the prayers in the temple. It is the drink of the parties and any event of the indigenous authorities of the region. Used as a medicine and a bottle is a vase for every ritual, wedding, party's patron saint, or to venerate the dead. The authorities also control the sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola which is also seeking strategies to introduce their products. But the same goes in Ladino and Western culture.
 

In 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) attempted to make a report warning of the dangers of excessive consumption of sugar and recommending that this is not more than 10% of the diet. Large multinationals linked to sugar attempted to prevent the publication of the document was denounced as WHO. It was reported that the Sugar Association, which includes giants such as Coca Cola and Pepsi, threatened to lobby the U.S. Congress to remove the subsidies given to the WHO if it does not remove the document.
 

In a recent report by the WHO advises restricting the sale and advertising of soft drinks as it assumes a relationship between an increase in diseases such as obesity and diabetes with the aggressive marketing of soft drinks companies. Obesity is a disease that affects more people in industrialized countries, and the rate of obese children is increasing rapidly. In England and Scotland, for example the rate of obese children between 4 and 11 years increased in the last 10 years by 2% and 2.8% respectively.
 

Obesity in children and adolescents affects the entire body and can cause serious physical problems as well
 

10 REASONS TO LEAVE THE COCA COLA
 

1 - Coca Cola harms your health and your children.
2 - Coca Cola is transgenic.
3 - Coca Cola is addictive.
4 - Coca Cola water sources contaminated with waste in many parts of the world.
5 - Coca Cola uses large amounts of coca for production while supporting U.S. policies that destroy farmers and indigenous people who cultivate the sacred leaf (which is not the same as Cocaine) * with the Plan Colombia.
6 - Coca Cola gets the water belongs to everyone, and is part of the neoliberal policies of privatization of water and also buy it again in the form of soda.
7 - Coca Cola financed the campaign of George Bush and his military policies against the people.
8 - Coca Cola violates the human rights of workers in its bottling plants by not complying with collective bargaining agreements.
9 - Coca Cola is linked to killings, torture, disappearances, death threats against trade unionists and is connected with armies and paramilitary forces that defend their interests.
10 - Coca Cola destroys cultures and traditions.
  
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Shares of The Coca-Cola company is listed under the symbol KO (OK greeting often used in English).

Mark only COCA COLA represents 96 of the value of the company and is in the 1st place among the 60 most valuable brands in the world, followed by Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Nokia, General Electric, Ford, Disney, McDonalds and AT & T .

* The statement in red is my original (Gloria H.)
Taken from: http://www.ecoaldea.com/articulos/cocacola.htm