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Coca Cola posts a profit surge for the 3rd quarter
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Oct 28 2009 | 0 Comments
If you have gone to the grocery store recently and wanted to pick up a few Cokes you may have noticed the prices of Coca Cola products are outrageous. This is one of my reasons why I stopped drinking soda, but this is also why Coca Cola has posted a profit growth of 15% for the third quarter.
The Atlanta based company reported a net income of $247 million and earnings equaling out to 50 centers per share. This is up from the third quarter 2008, when the company posted a net income of $214 million and an earnings of 44 cents per share.
Of course the company is going to be posting higher profits this year, the cost of a 12 pack of any Coke product has jumped from $3 to $4.50 at my local Wal-Mart. This week you can find them on sale at Walgreens for 4 12 packs for $10, that is the cheapest I have seen Coke products for in months. Even in the 24 pack cases that are sold at Wal-Mart, they have been around $7 for a while.
This was one of my reasons why I should definitely stop drinking sodas; it was getting to be a very expensive habit and since it is the only thing that I had to have to avoid negative side effects (those awful caffeine withdrawal headaches that would happen after I decided to not have a Diet Coke before noon), I decided it would have to stop.
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Tags: grocery store, caffeine withdrawal headaches, net income
9 Reasons to stop drinking soda
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Aug 19 2009 | 12 Comments
I have to keep reminding myself why I’m trying to give up sodas for good. I have been drinking the diet stuff for years now and it’s time to give it up.
So here’s 9 reasons why we should all stop drinking soda:
1. Soda is absolutely useless. There aren’t any benefits from drinking sodas. Even diet sodas are mostly filtered water and artificial sweeteners.
2. It increases the risk of Osteoporosis. If you drink a lot of soda, it can increase your risk of getting Osteoporosis because people aren’t getting the same amount of calcium in their diets. Once upon a time, kids were drinking several glasses of milk a day and now, they aren’t drinking nearly as much so they have weaker bones early in life.
3. Obesity. If you’re drinking the sugary stuff, you’re getting a lot of empty calories and many people forget about the calories in a drink. Drinking a can of soda every day can translate into over a pound of weight gain every single month. If you think you’re safe by drinking sugar-free diet sodas well, you’re wrong there too. Many studies are now saying that the diet sodas are causing people to actually eat more because the diet sodas make them hungrier.
4. High blood pressure. Typically the heavier you are, the more likely you are to have high blood pressure. Also, scientists are saying that consuming too much fructose can lead to higher blood pressure.
5. Soda can lead to heartburn. This one I know from experience. Whenever I was having gallbladder problems, I thought at first it was really bad heartburn (because that’s what the hospital initially told me) and they told me to stop drinking soda.
6. Dental erosion. Soda contains acids that eat away at enamel, more than that sugary sodas also end up causing cavities.
7. Aspartame is a toxin. The artificial sweetener in most diet sodas is not only 200 times sweeter than regular table sugar, it also breaks down into three different kinds of chemicals: phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol. Methanol ends up converting into formaldehyde and formic acid, which are both carcinogens.
8. Dehydration. Caffeine and sugar both cause dehydration. Caffeine is a diuretic and drinking a caffeinated drink can actually cause you to be thirstier.
9. You can get more nutrition from other drinks. Herbal teas, green tea, and even regular tea all have antioxidants in them and can help you ward off health problems. Milk is full of calcium and vitamin D, both of which we don’t get enough of.
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Coca Cola posts a profit surge for the 3rd quarter
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