Re: Sugary Drink Consumption Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

Luella,

From the other side of the bottling and canning industry...the empties, and just the ones that bear deposits and can be returned for a little cash...you would not believe what people are putting through their kidneys/bodies!

And we are only seeing a drop in the bucket of the recycled empties from our little town of a hundred thousand people, give or take a few thousand.

Then there are the empties that go into the garbage, and those not found when they have been tossed out along roads and highways, or buried in the sand at the beach (though metal detector people are pretty good at unearthing the metal ones...we could build a small house if we were paid for the pull tabs, alone).

Then there are the empties no one wants...like any that have contained some form of milk...with milk sugar, of course...lactic acid. And pickle jars that were loaded with sugar...and salad dressing jars of every kind. The list is infinite.

Refined (white) sugar, and who knows what else.

We pick up from businesses on a regular basis, and we are flagged down by home owners. Bottles and cans pour from the most unlikely sources. We got a call one day to pick up cans from the greens keepers' shack on a golf course...NOT the restaurant and bar on the property. We got 19 large plastic bags of cans...3,150 cans. It took two of us all afternoon to sort and count them...in our back yard.

Our hairdresser gave us five bags, from her home, all at once.

Years ago a lonely drinker, in another smaller town, was known to take a circuitous route, through the bush, to reach the local liquor store, and back home...so no one should notice what he was buying. I wonder what he did with his empties...likely dumped them in other people's garbage cans, under cover of darkness.

Locked garbage compounds are robbed. They were locked because the street people leave messes.

We don't...we offer regular pick-up, and tidiness, for charity.

Then, there are the profits made by the recycling depots.

It is almost impossible to believe what people are filtering through their bodies...and not just their kidneys. We have a friend who must take meds for the rest of his life, because of the damage done to his esophagus by pop. (He has never tasted alcohol, but does that matter when there other delightful 'drinks'?)

And, what are we feeding our children? I can't bear to watch.

The pride of marketers is another unbearable area. They decorate their containers in bright colors and cheeky names, all aimed at making the purchaser feel smart, popular, and loved. And, every bit of the advertising costs a fortune.

Heavens, they even want us to sit for endless hours in front of TV sets, just to take in the advertising!

Someone wrote, years ago, that TV exists for one reason, and one reason only...to sell us stuff.

What a world we have created!

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