Fizzy Drinks Blasted

Posted: July 22nd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cafe Culture |

A staggering proportion of consumers associate fizzy drinks with severe health problems such as obesity, a new report have revealed.

Some one in four adults in the UK believe that carbonated drinks are one of the main causes of obesity while nearly three-quarters claim that they are bad for your teeth, according to the YouGov Sixth Sense study. Commenting on the findings, research director for YouGov Sixth Sense James McCoy said: “The perceived health risks related to soft drinks are, for the most part, the same ones that have been around for years.

“We are more likely to link soft drink consumption with tooth decay than we are to weight gain. Similarly, it may be some time before new health concerns, such as liver damage, filter through to the wider population.”
Despite these concerns, more than half of the parents surveyed admitted that they have let their children drink Coca-Cola in the past 12 months while just 34% parents have given their children bottled water. This just highlights my own theory that the general public will just believe absolutely anything anyway. What is worrying is that people have these strong beliefs, and don’t even act on them anyway.

 

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