By Dean L. Jones
Aiding and abetting is a legal principle related to the guilt of someone who assists or helps in carrying out a crime, even if they are not the principal offender. Unfortunately, it is not a crime to promote, advertise or sell heavily sugar laden foods and beverages that can serious harm a person’s health.
Pepsi soda (or any of one of its competing sodas) harms the body, and maybe it should at least frown upon of anyone that assists with selling such a product. The intense sweetness of a Pepsi soda is a direct result of its high processed sugar content that should make us vomit as soon as it enters the body. But, purposely the manufacturer knows to add into the beverage phosphoric acid that dulls the sweetness, enabling us to keep the drink down. [Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, processed sugar, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid natural flavor]
Drinking it increases blood sugar levels within 20 minutes of drinking such a soda, thereby causing a burst of insulin. The liver then turns the high amounts of sugar circulating our body into fat. Within 40 minutes, the body has absorbed all of the caffeine from the cola, causing a dilation of pupils and an increase in blood pressure. By this point, the adenosine receptors in the brain have been blocked, preventing fatigue.
Five minutes later, production of dopamine has increased – a neurotransmitter that helps control the pleasure and reward centers of the brain. An hour after drinking the beverage, a sugar crash will begin, causing irritability and drowsiness. In addition, the water from the cola will have been cleared from the body via urination, along with nutrients that are important for our health.
These types of colas are not just high in high fructose corn syrup, but it is also packed with refined salts and caffeine, which constant consumption of these ingredients in the high quantities can lead to higher blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Nearly sounds like some type of criminal action to sell a product that would knowingly cause bodily harm to another person.
This makes it hard to explain why Janelle Monáe accepted her Pepsi contract to kick open doors and then crudely guzzling from a Pepsi cola bottle during this year’s Grammy Awards commercials. Monáe is simply following many of her contemporizes that have done the same in their Pepsi cola advertisement commission, including but not limited to, The Jacksons, Ray Charles, Beyoncé Knowles, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Nicki Minaj, Tina Turner, Ludacris, Aretha Franklin, Melanie Fiona, Deion Sanders, Shannon Sharpe, Jerry Rice, Marshawn Lynch, Teddy Bridgewater, Kyrie Irving, Baron Davis, Ray Allen, J.B. Smooth, and even the hit Fox television series Empire.
Aiding and abetting is conducted often. So watch out and live SugarAlert!
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As a strategic alliance strategist, Dean shares his best viable practices on behalf of a public benefit organization named the Southland Partnership Corporation.
