Are you an avid Mountain Dew consumer? Do you know its ill effects?

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December 8, 2013

                                        We drink a lot of Mt Dew when we ride

                                                   

It is the feast of Immaculate Concepcion

I used to order Mountain dew a lot at Simples Lugawan early on, but not after I read these articles.  Many still order a lot of Mountain Dew. Beware mga kapadyaks

From Red Devil Review 

Well it contains High Fructose Corn Syrup which can cause obesity and diabetes, brominated vegetable oil (which gives mountain dew its cloudy look) which cause depression of thyroid function and the yellow dye tartarazine which can cause a lot of reaction  It is banned in Norway, Germany and Austria.

The HFCS is responsible for flabs and weight gain despite our hard ride and sweating. HFCS disturbs our leptin balance, give us great hunger pangs which cause us to eat more.  Thus despite the exercise, we gain and we want loss of weight.   HFCS is the culprit and you can just see in the post how much sugar is in each serving of MD

Here are excerpts of the post:

Another scary ingredient is called Brominated Vegetable oil. It’s a vegetable oil that has atoms of elemental bromine bonded to it. It is used in Mt. Dew as an emulsifier (stabilizes the combining of two *unblendable* substances). It is what gives drinks that cloudy look. In this case it helps keep fat-soluble citrus flavorings suspended in the drink. Brominated vegetable oil is rightly banned in over 100 countries because of the known side effects of bromine on human beings. Bromine is a halogen and displaces iodine, which can depress thyroid function, as well as known side effects such as: depression, memory loss, hallucinations, violent tendencies, psychosis, seizures, cerebral atrophy, acute irritability, tremors, ataxia, confusion, loss of peripheral vision, slurred speech, stupor, tendon reflex changes, photophobia due to enlarged pupils, extensor plantar responses, fatigue, lethargy, loss of muscle coordination,  headache,  testicular damage, and stunted growth.
It definitely doesn’t sound like something I’d like in my soda.
The last unhealthy ingredient in Mountain Dew I’m going to talk about is Yellow Dye #5(Tartrazine) This product has been banned for usage in Norway, Austria and Germany. It is extracted from coal tar. Tartrazine seems to cause the most allergic and intolerance reactions of all the azo dyes. Symptoms of this can include anxiety, migraines, clinical depression, blurred vision, itching, general weakness, heatwaves, feeling of suffocation, purple skin patches, and sleep disturbance. Other symptoms include asthma and mild rhinitis (inflammation of the nasal passageways mostly with discharge).
Don’t get me wrong, Mountain Dew was my favorite pop at one point, but after doing a week of research, its now no longer a part of my diet. Drinking a soda with those kind of side effects doesn’t seem worth it to me.


From Hoax or Fact - BVO is a fire retardant, and make your innard fireproof


There’s flame retardant in your Mountain Dew. That soda with the lime-green hue (and other citrus-flavored bubbly pops) won’t keep your insides fireproof, but it does contain brominated vegetable oil, a patented flame retardant for plastics that has been banned in foods throughout Europe and in Japan. 
Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, which acts as an emulsifier in citrus-flavored soda drinks, is found in about 10 percent of sodas sold in the U.S.

T he concern about BVO is that Bromines generally are endocrine disruptors that can accumulate in your tissues, central nervous system and breast milk, leading to a number of health problems. It can also act as a depressant and trigger psychological problems.

 
Bromine is found in a number of other products like Pesticides and Plastics. Bromines are dangerous because they compete for the same receptors that are useful in capturing iodine. Iodine is an important element not just for your thyroid, but affects every tissue in your body, so when you are exposed to a lot of bromine, your body cannot hold on to the iodine it needs. This iodine deficiency is associated with increased risk for cancer of the breast, thyroid, ovary and prostate. For these reasons, usage of BVO in food is banned throughout Europe, Japan and India.

Other softdrinks that use BVO:

• quirt
• Fanta Orange
• Sunkist Pineapple
• Gatorade Thirst
• Quencher Orange
• Powerade Strawberry Lemonade
• Fresca Original Citrus

From Yahoo Voices

 How much sugar is in your Mountain Dew drink?