So the other day I was walking through Wal-Mart minding my own Damn business, trying to buy some groceries when out of the corner of my eye I see a bottle of straight up bullshit.
There is no denying the fact that trying to ‘be healthy’ is very popular lately. Its almost as if the health craze has been a fad. And where there is immense popularity, there is trash to market and money to be made. EVEN BY COMPANIES THAT HAVE NO FUCKING BUSINESS INVESTING IN IT. It is greedy to say the least. Dangerous and irresponsible at most. This is where I talk about how the sugar industry is preying on those who ‘want’ to be healthy and hear things about being healthy, but have not yet learned enough about nutrition to make healthy choices all the time.
So Many people have been talking about the health benefits of coconuts lately. As a result in stores you see much more coconut water, coconut oil, coconut milk, etc. I see it all the time with my friends who drink the stuff or use it for cooking. Did you even know five years ago that you could buy coconut water in a bottle? Since when have grocery stores given prime real estate to a display filled with coconut water???
This is Marketside Green Tea with Coconut Water. Marketside Green Tea with Coconut Water is a scam created to dupe you into buying more sugar and putting it into your body without you thinking you are because ‘oh I see my healthy friends talk about coconut products and I’ve heard that they’re healthy so this has to be healthy, right?” Well, Fuck you.
Let’s look at the Nutrition Facts of Marketside Green Tea with Coconut Water.
The first thing you should notice is that there are two servings per bottle. So if you drink the entire bottle, you have to double all of the other numbers on the label. (And who doesn’t drink the entire bottle, right?) That means that in one bottle of this there are 160 calories. So I read this and I’m thinking “how in the hell are there 160 calories in a bottle of green tea and coconut water?”
We read further down the label…
No fat, no sodium so that’s good I guess…carbohydrates 20 grams, okay I guess that makes sense of where the calories came from, WAIT! 20 GRAMS OF SUGAR!!!
That makes 40 grams of sugar in one bottle. One gram of sugar more than a can of coke!
The American Heart Association recommends that adult men consume no more than 36 grams of sugar per day. The recommended limit for women is even lower at 24 grams.
Drinking one bottle of Marketside Green Tea with Coconut Water puts anyone over their daily allowance for sugar. Drinking even the recommended serving size of half a bottle is more than half of your recommended daily sugar consumption.
How can this be possible with a drink that is labeled in a way that leads you to believe that it is healthy?
Excessive sugar consumption (that’s anything more than the daily recommended amount) is a direct cause of metabolic diseases such as diabetes. Excessive sugar consumption has also been proven as a cause of various forms of heart disease including High Blood Pressure, Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Vascular Disease, Heart Attack, and Stroke.
The number one goal of any industry is to make money. That includes the food and sugar industries. You have to realize that at the end of the day the job of the execs is not to make you healthier. This is not necessarily their fault. Marketside Green Tea with Coconut Water is just one example of how the sugar industry is certainly not doing us any favors. In order to live a healthy lifestyle, we are going to need to be more aware as consumers than the food industry would hope we are.
Be Well,
Cory
The Well-Fed Man 