Is it really so long ago when our grandparents knew what good food and drink looked like?
Are our children walking into a complete disaster of health problems?
It seems that unless we take back control of our own lives, we will be living a much shorter life than our parents.
How Companies Take Advantage of “Cool” to Sell Their Waste
High sugar drinks laden with caffeine are sold to our children as a “fashion drink” but the combination of loads of sugar and caffeine is not a healthy drink by any means.
Youngsters have high levels of blood glucose and insulin levels which are spiked by consuming these types of drinks. High blood sugar levels are linked to diabetes in later life. It’s a bit like smoking, it happens to us when we are a lot older.
Although these drinks are aimed at our children, some adults believe they should carry a health warning like the kind we see on a packet of cigarettes. Would that stop children from buying these drinks? Probably not.
Caffeine tends to stay in your system for approximately 4 to 6 hours after consuming. With high levels of caffeine running around your body, you will have less of a chance to deal with the sugar so placing a higher load on the bodies ability to perform at a suitable level to operate machines and drive a car. Remember that caffeine rush after a few cans?
Red Bull came up with a clever marketing plan by getting involved with cool kids stuff like skateboarding and BMX bikers.
This later led to motor bike stunt riding and finally F1 motor racing. The clever men & woman at Red Bull are also connected to a shed load of other activities such as high diving, cart racing, snowboarding, Flugtag at McCovey Cove, speed skating and who could forget the spaceman jumping out of spaceship on the edge of space. Red Bull cover the world with sponsorship deals and all are aimed at us enjoying ourselves.
5 Negative Effects of Sugary Products on our Health and the Environment
1. Depression
One Green Planet shows that consumers of fast food are “51 percent more likely to develop depression or some form of mental illness”.
121 million people around the world suffer from depression, how many were caused by consuming fast food?
2. Premature Aging
Botox isn’t enough to fix the fast food and sugary products habit as it’s the sugars, trans fats, and starches found in fast food cause a spike in insulin levels.
This has a negative effect on the body as it actually speeds up the process of aging and damages the body’s natural age fighting antioxidants.
3. Dependent on Aspirin
Processed meats contain a chemical found in food colorants, dyes and nitrates actually causes headaches. The chemical, Tyramine, causes headaches as it increases the blood flow to the brain.
4. Packaging
Fast food and sugary products count for around 40 percent of all litter.
5. Contaminating the Water Supply
The water supply is already under intense scrutiny with the prescribed drugs causing contamination issues. Other chemicals such as pathogens, hormones and fertilisers used to make fast food seeps into the water supplies.
This puts our water quality under a huge amount of stress as its vulnerable to outbreaks of waterborne illness including E. Coli, marine life dead zones, and other hazards that fast food and sugary products causes.