Tasty, Refreshing Poison

by: Bob McCauley

“Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Carbonated soft drinks are primarily water, but they are the most dehydrating substances that are commonly consumed. I grew up on a steady diet of soft drinks and it did more damage to my health than anything else. As a child, I was never warned how dangerous soft drinks were to my health, and at the time few questioned them. Not surprisingly, many CEO’s of soft drink and fast food chains succumb to cancer and heart disease at relatively young ages.

“Consuming acidic foods such as soft drinks may also create an ideal environment for cancer to form.”

Soft drinks contain highly processed sweeteners, which do not remotely resemble the natural chemical structure of sugars found in fruits and vegetables. Caffeine is a diuretic that has been linked to rheumatoid arthritis. It encourages the kidneys to produce so much urine that it leads to dehydration. The phosphoric and carbonic acids contained in soft drinks are extremely acidic (pH 2.7) and cause the body’s pH to drop considerably, leaving us more susceptible to chronic, bacterial and viral disease of every kind. The phosphates found in soft drinks block the absorption of calcium and leach alkaline minerals from the body, leading to bone loss. Soft drinks also severely erode our teeth. They contain large amounts of benzene, eight times that which is allowed in drinking water. Benzene is a carcinogenic chemical that has been linked to leukemia. Chronic soft drink consumption was linked to hyperactivity and mental health problems amongst teens in Norwegian in a study of more than 5000 teens.

“To prevent acidic poisoning from cola (or other acid) consumption, the body uses two strategies. One is to use alkaline blood buffers to buffer the acid. The other strategy is to convert these volatile liquid acids into less-reactive solid acids.”

The dangerous nature of soft drinks comes with no warning about their potential damage to our health and one of the reasons is that medical, educational, health and fitness professionals regularly promote the consumption of soft drinks. If the medical establishment was truly concerned about our health, they wouldn’t allow the sale of soft drinks in hospitals, for example. Instead, we do not hear a single word of condemnation about soft drinks from them.

Dr. Heinz Valtin stated: “Many people contend that caffeinated drinks such as tea and soda, don't count toward your fluid intake. In fact, they can. And thirst does not necessarily mean you're already dehydrated.” Both of these statements could not be further from the truth, however the simple fact that this appeared in a newspaper makes it the “truth” to many people. A medical doctor has approved it, so now their concerns over soft drinks being unhealthy for them are eased. They have found an enabler who has rubber-stamped their rationalization of why they consume soft drinks and now they can swing it like a mighty club of defiance. The fact is that by the time the thirst mechanism in the body switches on to tell you to drink water, the body is already dehydrated.

Most of us instinctively know that soft drinks are bad for our health even though the yearly per capita consumption of soft drinks in the U.S. has risen steadily to 49 gallons over the past 50 years. This is in large part due to marketing and the lack of condemnation from parents, school officials and other role models where inculcation to the soft drink culture often starts as early as one year old.

Soft drink consumption has been linked to esophageal cancer. The artificial sweetener aspartame found in diet soft drinks has been linked to birth defects, brain cancer, emotional disorders, carpel tunnel, diabetes and epilepsy. When asked if they would allow a product such as soft drinks on the market, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) was blunt in stating that there was no possibility they would allow it to be marketed if it were presented to them today for approval. Soft drinks are poison and should be avoided at all costs.

The United States is a country built upon genocide. When European occupiers arrived in North America there were hundreds of Native American nations, many with old and well-developed societies and cultures. American military forces, beginning with those under the command of George Washington, burnt villages, slaughtered men, women and children, and destroyed their sources of food. The aim of the U.S. government was the destruction of Native American culture and the extermination of all Native Americans so as to steal their land, which it did. The role of George Washington in this genocide has been air-brushed out of the orthodox history of the United States.

American mythologists conjured stories from the thin air about Washington... Contrary to the fairy tales, Washington was one of U.S. history's most successful criminals, aptly described as the "father of our country." In 1782, as the dust was still settling on America's successful elite revolt (although the poor were drafted to fight in it), Washington presented a plan to the Continental Congress to defraud the Native Americans. It was a blueprint for theft and genocide....

Washington's plan was to compel Native Americans to sell their land by treaty. The U.S. agents would promise that their new nation would honor its treaties, but the promises would only be kept until the "settlers" showed up. Then the treaty was not worth the paper it was printed on, and the tribes would be coerced to "sell" their treaty-provided land and be forced ever westward. Washington advocated a divide-and-conquer strategy of negotiating with each tribe separately, and trying to incite animosity between them by playing one against the other. The new "settlers" would then exterminate the game and chop the trees down, thereby making the land even less desirable to the natives....

— Wade Frazier, The American Empire

In the late 19th Century there were fifty million buffalo in the Great Plains, providing a livelihood for the Plains Indians. Within a decade or two these had almost all been shot by white buffalo hunters, with the Native Americans herded onto "reservations", existing on what the U.S. government chose to give them (which wasn't much). In the 20th Century the most common cause of death on Navajo reservations was officially stated to be inanition, or in more common language, death by starvation.

A nation which is rooted in evil can produce only evil fruits.