Why Coke Is Good For You
Coke is good for you because…
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…because Coca-Cola says so.1Yes, coke as in the soda, not the narcotic!!! To prevent you from potentially outing yourself in the future to someone who may be less tolerant of your drug use than I am, here’s a hint: when Coke is spelled capitalized, it’s in reference to a soft drink. And when coke is spelled in the lowercase, it’s in reference to coal or booger sugar. And when it’s used at the beginning of a sentence? Then boy are you fucked!
That’s why!!!
Just how good for you is Coke?, you ask.
Well, Coca-Cola is so good for you that several studies financed by the company have found that you don’t need to cut it out of your diet because the secret to weight loss is exercising more, as opposed to cutting calories and limiting intake of high glycæmic foods and beverages that raise blood sugar levels.
These findings fly in the face of all research conducted by others not backed by Coca-Cola, research that shows that exercising without doing a damn thing about your nutrition is pointless.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Coca-Cola, the world’s largest producer of sugary beverages, would be of the contrary opinion that weight loss is more about exercise and less about how much you eat and drink.
Hmmmmm…what could Coca-Cola, a company that makes gobs and gobs of money from selling soda and other sugary drinks, possibly have to gain by people believing its products aren’t bad for them so they continue buying them instead of giving them up for something else?!?!
There’s an extensive body of research that shows that added sugar from things like soda is a contributing factor to weight gain, as well as tooth decay, diabetes, certain forms of cancer, and other health problems.
There’s also just as much evidence that exercise has minimal effect on weight compared with calorie consumption.
But as we see, what begs to differ with all that independent research published in peer-reviewed journals for scrutiny to ensure the findings are credible is Coca-Cola funded research.
But wait, not only research funded by Coca-Cola but also where the company chooses the executives, drafts the mission statement, and designs the website of the institute that conducts the research, as was the case in 2015 with the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), which then went on to hire academics with a history of receiving funding from Coke and other food companies.
It was under those conditions that scientists at GEBN did the miraculous in finding what countless others had failed to find, which was no link between sugary drinks and weight gain. Moreover, they found that obesity is more a matter of a lack of exercise than about calories and portion size. As such, the take home message from the research conducted by those stalwarts of integrity is that the key to weight management is maintenance of an active lifestyle because exercise is waaaaaaaayyyyy more important than cutting back on calories by reducing or eliminating foods and beverages you love, such as Coke, for example.
I’m not Coca-Cola, so I’m obviously not as trustworthy as them when it comes to weight loss advice so no hard feelings for you not clicking the link to my article above that aligns more with what the shitload of other research says than that said by a bajillion dollar corporation!
