{"id":2050,"date":"2011-07-20T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/poor-soda-makers-pooooor-soda-makers.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:59:33","slug":"poor-soda-makers-pooooor-soda-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2050","title":{"rendered":"Poor Soda Makers. Pooooor Soda Makers."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"><img data-opt-id=1024440197  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rfXHM8i603Y\/TicFdTSzinI\/AAAAAAAADNo\/vgvMuERhUow\/s320\/soda%2Bban%2Bobesity.jpg?resize=320%2C208\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It makes me want to cry.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">These defenseless soda makers feel like they&#8217;re being unfairly singled out for promoting a high sugar, low nutrient, calcium sucking soft drink.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">And NOW, they are being absolutely forced against their will to resort to old Tobacco Company strategies: (<i>according to this article, below, the Beverage Association is suing local childhood obesity efforts in order to out spend them into submission<\/i>). &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">This is SO unfair to the soda makers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Just because a small 12 oz coke has whopping 12 teaspoons of sugar doesn&#8217;t mean that kids drinking several 20 oz versions of those, daily, contributes to them be fat and diabetic.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Just because colas are made tart by adding <i>phosphoric acid<\/i>, and drinking <i>phosphoric acid ([really?? you&#8217;re drinking phosphoric acid?? ewww!!] &#8230;<\/i> sorry &#8230; back in character<i>) <\/i>speeds bone loss in women so that it&#8217;s easier to break your head and shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes doesn&#8217;t mean that it is BAD for you bones.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Just because children who drink these sodas tend to get fat doesn&#8217;t mean that the sodas and their bolus of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP have anything to do with that.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Poor maligned soda makers. Well, I for one am GLAD they&#8217;re fighting back against this injustice of data and common sense.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Plus, you don&#8217;t have to drink sodas with mountains of sugar in them. You can choose zero calorie options that have synthetics in them &#8230; like Aspartame &#8230; which is a zero calorie neurotoxin. Honestly, no calories at all!!&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">And just because the Harvard School of Public Health showed that the people who drink zero calorie neurotoxin sodas <i>actually gain more weight than those people who drink sugar-choked soft drinks<\/i>, is also plainly, plainly not the soda&#8217;s fault.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">So, stand with us to oppose this unwarranted common sense. If we do, we&#8217;ll all be bigger people for it.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/20\/us-obesity-lobbying-idUSTRE76I6KI20110720\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Exclusive: Soda makers escalate attacks over obesity | Reuters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willcloweraudio.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-opt-id=121310768  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Clower Audicles\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WillClowerAudicles.4.gif?w=735\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerrecipes.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-opt-id=1059463939  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WillClowerRecipes.5.gif\"  class=\"optimole-lazy-only \"  data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Clower Recipes\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E?w=735\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\" layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willclower.com\/\"> Click here to visit Will Clower&#8217;s website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes me want to cry.&nbsp;These defenseless soda makers feel like they&#8217;re being unfairly singled out for promoting a high sugar, low nutrient, calcium sucking soft drink.&nbsp;And NOW, they are &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-sodas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-x4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2587,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2587","url_meta":{"origin":2050,"position":0},"title":"Hard News For Soft Drinks","author":"Will Clower","date":"April 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We have it on good authority ....The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) is calling for a new era of beverage formulation. 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