Sugar. It has been accused of crooked crimes, called filthy names and played a few dirty tricks. But how can something so sweet be so sour? Well, sugar has become a sickly sweet lush, a cheap thrill and a lucrative government groupie. Subsidies, free trade agreements and “Big Sugar” lobbyists are to blame for sugar’s not-so-sweet surrender.

Dirty Pop
Soda’s illicit relationship with sugar is a result of the saccharine chemicals found in most soft drinks. Soda is literally a stomach-turning combination of aspartame, artificial flavors and dyes, caffeine and sugar. When you drink soda, you are downing liquid poison. To quote the unabashed words of Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin in Skinny Bitch, “Soda is liquid Satan. It is the devil. It is garbage. There is nothing in soda that should be put into your body.”

There’s nothing diet friendly about diet soda, either. You’re not doing your body any favors when you fill it up with alleged cancer-causing chemicals, or, more specifically, aspartame. Regardless of government health disputes, you know deep down that aspartame is a lowbrow marketing scam.

C’mon, ladies. If you’re at all concerned with your health (and we know you are), you must know by now: soda—diet or otherwise—will quickly take a toll on your well-being. (continue reading)