fizzy drinks
About time, too! Full fat soda now with natural sweetener
Good news for Sprite drinkers in the UK! The once full fat soda will now be made using a natural sweetener, slashing calories by a whopping 30%! Interestingly, following the bold move, the company is still exploring whether the reformulated product – which now contains stevia – will be brought to the US. As part of parent …
Tax soda, and ban junk food ads, say doctors
Soda should be heavily taxed, while adverts promoting junk food may be banished until after the watershed, doctors have said, in a recent call for action over obesity rates in the UK. Representing nearly every doctor in the UK, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said increasing waistlines already constituted a “huge crisis”. A report by …
Need Another Reason to Avoid Aspartame? Here’s 92…
If your health practitioner prescribed a medicine with 92 (or more) side-effects – some of them serious – you’d no doubt be wary of taking it. And we wouldn’t blame you. But millions of people choose to drink soda containing aspartame – a dangerous sweetener with as many side-effects – on a regular basis, some of …
