Statement: Feeding infants and children Coca-Cola: Many mothers from Mexico feed their infants and younger children Coca-Cola in the same way mothers in the United States use “sugar water.” They may be unaware of the effects this has on the child’s teeth or oral development. Juice, coffee with milk and sugar also are commonly given.
Here’s are the reasons why they do what they do
Parents are poorly educated
The efficiency of Coca Cola (it can be found everywhere) while water is scarce!!!
Pieces of news…
Mexico has the largest per capita consumption of soft drinks in the world. Upwards of 40 percent of children in
Mexico experience malnutrition, with even higher rates for indigenous people in southern Mexico. Coca-Cola–which has won the lion’s share of the soft drink market in
Mexico–appears to be a major contributor to this problemThey are malnourished because poor and often poorly educated parents are choosing to feed their children soft drinks, especially Coca-Cola, and junk food instead of healthier and more affordable traditional foods. The marketing and distribution practices of Coca-Cola directly contribute to the ill health and sometimes the death of infants and young children here in Guanajuato and throughout Mexico. ‘
In the maquiladoras of Mexico, drinking-water is so scarce that babies and children drink Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Coca-Cola’s products sell in 195 countries, generating a revenue of $16 billion. Water scarcity is clearly a source of corporate profits.
During a drought crisis in northern Mexico in 1995, the government cut water supplies to local farmers while ensuring emergency supplies to the mostly foreign-controlled industries of the region.
Why this Diet is super harmful???
Maybe you would think that coke only speeds up tooth decay in your mouth due to its high content of sugar. But anyway, you don’t mind drinking it because its not life-threatening and the dentists are always there for you. Well, unfortunately, this is not true. At all.
The word you need to know is Aspartame.
Follow these links.
My reaction…
I was shocked.
Usually, when you think of diet…you would think of models and movie stars eating only lettuce everyday. Water does not come to mind most of the time. We say that Singapore is short of water. But I think our generation will not be able to grasp that reality, to grasp how insecure we are without sufficient water until we face the realities of situations in Mexico where infants drink coke because of water scarcity. It’s like another form of “Supersize me” where instead of being filled up with McDonalds everyday, they are being drowned with coke.
And to think this water scarcity has lead to more deaths from food poisoning than dehydration in
Mexico. Because of …
COKE
Know what you are drinking. It may be harmful.
Acknowledgements
