Diet Dr Pepper Cherry: More chemicals in your blood
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). If you think that replacement of 130 pounds of sugar average American consumes every year by an equivalent of synthetic chemical which has never existed in nature may somehow solve the problem, you are wrong. There is a saying: “We Are What We Eat” that is about right. And let me extend the idea by saying: “The more we deviate from normal human food, the less human we become.” Look at this Diet Dr Pepper Cherry swill: of course, no cherry in it. Here is what you allow into your blood instead:
DyeDiet Doesn’t Buy It!
Diet Dr Pepper Cherry: Risk, Nutrition and Dye Content
It says on the label: “It’s so amazingly smooth, you have to try to believe it!” No, I don’t believe it and, guess what? I don’t want even to try… How can you drink this cocktail of artificial chemicals and hope to stay healthy, no matter how “smooth” it goes? No way, people, no way. Even regular Diet Dr Pepper is far from being human friendly, but its “cherry” version, due to added Red 40, is a real killer. This liquid gives you UNACCEPTABLY high health risk of DDFI = 44/2 = 22 (record high!) coming with the chemicals and essentially ZERO nutritional value: DDNF = 2/62 ~ 0.03. Why to drink this chemical pollution, anyway? Sure, you will not die tomorrow. But you will die younger. If the diagram is not convincing enough, consider this:
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Modern technology for production of caramel coloring generates carcinogenic side-products. Coca-Cola and Pepsi are to reformulate their drinks, following a report that both contain unacceptably high levels of 4-methylilidazole (4-MI), a chemical that has been linked to cancer in mice and rats;
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Trisodium phosphate (sodium phosphate) is the active ingredient in some toilet bowl cleaning tablets. It is generally not good for cleaning bathrooms, because it can stain metal and can damage grout. Also every bottle of diet soda contains ~ 20% of your daily sodium which makes you feel thirsty and may contribute into hypertension.
Food additives to avoid:
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Red 40 is an artificial color (azo dye) added to fool you into thinking of cherry; 130 mg in every bottle. Compare: Active dose of Melatonin natural sleep aid is only 3 mg (!). Reference Daily Intake for Vitamin C is only 60 mg (!). Keep reading: A review of the genotoxicity of food, drug and cosmetic colours and other azo, triphenylmethane and xanthene dyes;
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Sodium benzoate, is known to produce benzene, a known carcinogen in presence of acids, such as ascorbic acid (vitamin C), citric acid or phosphoric acid;
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Aspartame, is an artificial sweetener with highly controversial history;
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Phosphoric acid is used to increase acidity of beverages. Please note, that the medium of blood is basic, that is the opposite of being acidic. This means that our body will have to struggle to keep balancing the blood medium. Over time consumption of phosphoric acid may cause reduction in bone calcium and kidney problems;
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Natural and artificial flavors are mostly synthetic chemicals kept in secrecy.
Bottom line. Dye Diet Calculator indicates that Diet Dr Pepper Cherry makes you taking extremely high health risk of 44.0 and gives you essentially zero nutritional value of 0.02. If you do care about your health, consider drinking ZERO CALORIE Perrier or Pellegrino mineral water for $1.50 which contains naturally low concentration of minerals and NO synthetic chemicals.
Also, Culligan purified water is available at Walmart stores for $1.11 per 3 gallons. It is zero calorie too!
Category: American diet, Food Dyes Exposure, Food Terrorism, Soft drinks, Zero calories
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Wow! This is the highest record of chemical risk for now! If the chemical risk is higher than 25, it will be “unbelievably unacceptable”.
Yes, you are right. See the ONLY ingredient your body can make use of is water… But it is so contaminated…. For simplicity, all with DDFI > 3 I call Unacceptable. When people regularly drink alcohol, they realize that they harm their health. But very often, when they drink sugary or “diet” sodas, they don’t…
This is an example of what is actually “amazingly smooth”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jNZvPhMHrI
Maybe so, but the bottle of Diet Dr Pepper Cherry which I have analyzed for Red 40 content, was poured into toiled bowl where it belongs…
Also, after drinking a 12 oz can of soda, you will have to drink 32 glasses of water to stay basic, not acidic.
Yeah….
Here are some tips for choosing the healthy drink:
1. Read ingredients before buying.
2. Do not buy anything labeled “diet”.
3. Skip most of the punches (ex. fruit, berry, citrus)
4. Skip most of the sodas.
5. Do not buy anything that says “no sugar added”.
Did you know that the pH value of soda is almost equal to vinegar (ex. Coke pH = 2.5)? If pH is low, it is BAD. Here is a pH value list:
0:
Battery acid
1:
Sulfuric acid
Bad stomach acid
Hot sauce (yellow)
2:
Lemon juice
Vinegar
Coke
Coke cherry
Lime juice
Vinegar
Good stomach acid
Hot sauce (red)
3:
Diet Coke
Dr. Pepper
Diet Dr. Pepper
Sprite
Processed fruit juice
Orange juice
Mountain Dew
Raspberries
Strawberries
Blueberries
Grapefruit
Pastries
Cheese
Pasta
Mint jelly
Apples
Oranges
Plums
Pineapple
Most carbonated beverages
Artificial sweeteners
Hot sauce (green)
4:
Tea iced
Coffee
Root beer
Enchilada sauce
Ketchup
Wine
Beer
Tomato
Tomato juice
Acid rain
Acidic lake
Peppers
Nectarines
Lemon water
5:
Bananas
Jujube
Peppers green
Pickles
Onions
Leeks
Lettuce
Hot dogs
Maple syrup
Mustard (can range from 3-6)
Real fruit juice
Bee sting
6:
Clean rain
Clean lake
Milk
Gelatin
Most fish
Saliva
7:
Pure water
Blood
Eggs
Most seafood
Grains
Cereal
Soy milk
Soy cheese
Tea brewed
Butter
Margarine
Most oils, except olive
Sodium hexametaphosphate
8:
Sea water
Breast milk
Green tea
Most vegetables
Spinach
Broccoli
Olive oil
Lima beans
Green beans
9:
Toothpaste
Baking soda
Herbal tea
Grass
Stevia
Xylitol
Sprouted grains
10:
Milk of magnesia
Borax
Antacid tablets
Alkalized / ionized water
Broccoli (raw)
Spinach (raw)
Pot ash
11:
Household ammonia
Soap
Alkaline soil
Herbal bath mix
12:
Soapy water
13:
Lye
Oven cleaner
Bleach
14:
Caustic soda
Liquid drain cleaner
And that’s why Dr Pepper is not your doctor.
Oh, yeah….
Excellent! Thank you! However I should disagree with regard to “no sugar added”. It depends on the ingredients. Often they put “no sugar added” on juices and that means good thing: they did not make the juice sweeter than natural (from concentrate…).
While I do agree that drinking fluids like this is bad for you…. I would like to see this with proper math done. 36% of adults and 17% of young Americans does NOT add up to 53%. It only adds up to 26.5% which is half of what you stated. Also, in the pie graph, despite caffeine being smaller than Red40, you stated there was more in it. Please make corrections to this so that I can take it seriously