7UP being Sued for Antioxidant Claims

7UP being Sued for Antioxidant Claims









Misinformation
aggravates us all, and unfortunately the food industry is rife with it.
One Californian man, however, is holding a soda manufacturer legally
culpable for false claims about its supposedly antioxidant sodas,
including diet Cherry Antioxidant, Mixed Berry Antioxidant, and
Pomegranate Antioxidant 7UP flavors.

The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest is co-counsel in the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday.

“Non-diet varieties of 7UP, like other sugary drinks, promote
obesity, diabetes, tooth decay, and other serious health problems, and
no amount of antioxidants could begin to reduce those risks,” says
Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of CSPI. “Adding an antioxidant
to a soda is like adding menthol to a cigarette—neither does anything
to make an unhealthy product healthy.”

To be fair, 7UP isn’t exactly lying when it says, “There’s never been
a more delicious way to cherry pick your antioxidant!” Indeed, there is
only a small amount of one antioxidant in each beverage.

But it’s always nice to see a corporation making bank off of obesity and diabetes get a slap on the wrist.

Downsides to Drinking Soda


Jacobson is right: diet soda is a wolf in sheep’s clothing in today’s
food industry. Fat and calories are spurned above all, even carcinogens like mercury and artificial sweeteners known to cause numerous health problems. How else to explain the rising production of “healthy” sodas and so-called health products that do nothing more than perpetuate the problems they claim to alleviate with a single antioxidant?

The answer to “is diet soda bad for you”
is quite obvious at this point. Harvard Medical School researchers
studied over 3,000 women for 11 years and found that diet soda
consumption had a positive correlation to kidney health decline. Other
research found that drinking a single can of diet soda daily is
associated with a 34 percent increased risk of developing metabolic
syndrome, also upping the risk of heart attack and stroke.





Other research from Texas involving 474 individuals also shows consuming two or more diet sodas a day prompts an increase in waist size.

We consumers have our own responsibilities to make healthy decisions
with the information we have at our disposal—beginning with the
ingredients list.

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