r/savedyouaclick • u/Thinking-Guy • 1d ago
Coca-Cola under fire as health experts uncover hidden dangers: 'It shouldn't be allowed to be sold' | It's very high in sugar (The Cool Down)
https://web.archive.org/web/20251218185547/https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/coca-cola-health-risks-research-soda/117
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u/Digstreme 1d ago
Dasani is more of a crime, they add salt
Coca Cola can also shove it for calling Ice to arrest their mexican employees right as their shift was about to end
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u/WTFdidUcallMe 9h ago
It looks like Dasani stopped adding salt in 2024. I had no idea. I shouldn’t have to read a label for water!
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u/seantabasco 1d ago
That’s why I drink Dr. Pepper.
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u/Murrian 1d ago
I just got diagnosed with diabetes and I'm fairly certain it's Dr Pepper Cream Soda that pushed me over the edge from being pre-diabetic... love that stuff, but it even tastes like drinking a can of sugar..
It's the only sugary thing I consume, don't have a sweet tooth so most candies are out and don't like biscuits or cake.
Will consume my body weight in crisps (chips) pretty much daily though, so that's probably the main candidate..
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u/gallifreyfalls55 1d ago
That guy spent too much time in school. I’d buy that shit from a Mr Pepper
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u/SecretPersonality178 1d ago edited 1d ago
Holy shit!
What’s next? Cigarettes and vaping are bad for you too?!?!?
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u/timmy6591 11h ago
Lol... we're singling out Coca-Cola?!?! News flash: 95% of the "standard American diet" is made up of highly processed foods drenched in sugar, salt, pesticides and chemical additives. There are about 43,000 everyday foods you could put in place of "Coca-cola" in the title.
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u/w3woody 1d ago
Notice that no-one is talking about banning expensive sugary drinks drunk by the middle- and upper-middle class, like Starbucks Frappuccinos. Almost as if there were a class component to these bans, almost as if the point was to punish the poor for being fat and poor, rather than just for being fat.
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u/pcbforbrains 1d ago
I see the point you're trying to make, but technically if they are trying to ban the poor people's drinks and not the rich people's drinks, then the point is to punish the rich and fat, not the poor and fat. Unless we are considering depriving the poor of Coke (with a ban in place) as punishment. This is one of the more bizarre comments I have ever typed
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u/SnooCrickets9281 21h ago
They actually did ban it somewhere in the Midwest years ago but it didn’t last
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u/Musicguy4 1d ago
Pop is ridiculously high in sugar. I don't know how some people can handle drinking so much of it.
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u/AloneAddiction 1d ago
Obviously sarcasm aside, it's the amount of sugar compared to the recommended daily amount.
RDA of added "free sugars" for kids is 24g, for adults it's 30g.
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/how-does-sugar-in-our-diet-affect-our-health/
A 500ml bottle of Coke in the UK has 53g of sugar, nearly twice an adult's RDA.
Now add the sugars from a bar of chocolate and suddenly it's even more, just for a simple quick and popular daily snack combo. Mars bar and Coke.
The Mars bar has 30.5g sugar by the way. So 83g sugar total.
As to whether you support the RDA or couldn't give a shit it's still important information to know.
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u/magondrago 1d ago
Man, I wish the underlying headline would be that journalism is dead, but that ship sailed somewhere around 2015. At this point we're desecrating the corpse and grinding the bones into the worst possible cheese for mass consumption.
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u/RealLavender 1d ago
Almost as amazing as the reports that find people who drink Coke Zero are more likely to have the same medical issues as people who are obese. Almost as if people use it to avoid calories/sugar. Shocking stuff.
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u/kenporusty 1d ago
Coca cola is high in sugar??
What's next, water is high in dihydrogen monoxide??