Category: American diet

Knorr bouillon cubes: A pinch of chemicals to American meal

Knorr bouillon cubes: A pinch of chemicals to American meal

[ 0 ] June 9, 2013 |

Isn’t it a good idea to add some spicy flavor to soup or pasta? Yes, but I would not recommend to do so with Knorr Tomato Bouillon with Chicken Flavor cubes produced by Unilever in Mexico for American consumers. Why? For the two reasons: Knorr cubes contain 10 mg of potentially carcinogenic Yellow 6, Red […]

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Gatorade vs Powerade: Toxic sports drinks

Gatorade vs Powerade: Toxic sports drinks

[ 3 ] February 10, 2013 |

Gatorade Fruit Punch It is sad watching people buying and drinking Gatorade, low calorie sports drink. Why? Because they are FOOLED to believe that they buy sports drink and an electrolyte. Not only Gatorade is UNHEALTHY due to added chemicals and artificial colors but it is also a fake electrolyte! Look, potassium content is only […]

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Brominated oil (BVO) to be removed from Gatorade: What else should we avoid?

Brominated oil (BVO) to be removed from Gatorade: What else should we avoid?

[ 9 ] February 2, 2013 |

It was everywhere in the news a week ago that PepsiCo Inc. is removing a controversial ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (BVO) from its Gatorade sports drink in response to customer complaints. Excellent news, demonstrating remarkable power of Internet in tandem with expressed public concern to force Big Food manufacturer to react in a matter of […]

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Diet Dr Pepper Cherry: More chemicals in your blood

Diet Dr Pepper Cherry: More chemicals in your blood

[ 11 ] January 20, 2013 |

According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 36% of adult and 17% of young Americans were obese in 2009 – 2010; 53% total. Obesity is expected to reach 65% by 2030 so that obese and overweight people will be more common than normal weigh population (see Why Dr Pepper is not your doctor). […]

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How The American Way Kills American Life

How The American Way Kills American Life

[ 0 ] January 6, 2013 |

Ignorance is what kills. The below are quotations from an excellent educational book “Fast Food Nation. The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” by Eric Schlosser. A praise for the book left by The Daily Telegraph (London) says: “Eric Schlosser’s book on the economy and strategies of the fast food business should be read by anyone […]

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Wonka Frosty Nerds: Another chemical candy

Wonka Frosty Nerds: Another chemical candy

[ 3 ] December 1, 2012 |

Do you know that according to the Wikipedia, “nerd” is a person, typically described as being overly intellectual, obsessive, or socially impaired? This is one thing. As the second meaning, “nerd” is a form of candy that is essentially small irregularly-shaped bits of sugar crystal which are covered with a thin candy-coating. Yes, coating… This […]

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Why Dr Pepper is NOT your doctor

Why Dr Pepper is NOT your doctor

[ 0 ] July 1, 2012 |

With all due respect to Dr Pepper’s long history of a soft drink with a unique flavor, the truth is that it contains only two ingredients which your body can make use of: water and 35 teaspoons (!) of High Fructose Corn Syrup (while these are nutrients, 2 green segments in the DyeDiet diagram, too […]

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Barq’s Fake Root Beer

Barq’s Fake Root Beer

[ 5 ] June 2, 2012 |

What you read on the label: “Barq’s Olde Tyme Root Beer. It’s good since 1898!” is not what you get in reality. The drink has nothing to do with the root of sassafras which in old times used to be the original flavor of root beer. So what you get is another version of Coca-Cola-like […]

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Health effects of drinking sodas

Health effects of drinking sodas

[ 8 ] March 14, 2012 |

I don’t drink Coca-Cola, Pepsi or Dr Pepper. Why? Well, classic Coke contains too much sugar, 55 g per 0.5 L, so you have to run 2 miles to burn off a bottle of Coke. From the other hand, both diet and, especially, zero Coke are nothing else to me but chemically contaminated water. I […]

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SunnyD: Dignity or Disgrace?

SunnyD: Dignity or Disgrace?

[ 3 ] February 15, 2012 |

The way food industry treat Americans is often shameful. One of the nastiest marketing tools which have been exploiting for decades in America is to expose nice pictures of fruits on front and load the product with pesky ingredients instead. But what astonishes me even more is that millions of Americans keep swallowing all those […]

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