Re: The real problem in "health care"
Anarcissie
ZerkonXXXX <Z...@erkonx.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:49:15 -0800, ta wrote:
>
> > Coca-cola is going to help "educate consumers"
>
> In fact.
>
> However in form it will be "American Academy of Family Physicians" who
> will be the Coca front. The front of this front being the warm and fuzzy
> sounding Family Doctor aka FamilyDoctor.org.
>
> The word 'human' is not used once here. Instead, it's 'consumer'.
>
> > The real problem in "health care" ?
>
> Is exactly that.. the human is not human but a consumer. Defined as such,
> human health becomes only another a cog of consumption in the greater and
> therefore more important wheel of economy.
I doubt if this business is a matter of "health care"
(medical practice). The highly authoritarian model
presently used by the medical care industry is far more
effective at raising prices and gross income than the
commercial (supermarket-shelf) model employed by Coca
Cola and the rest of the soft-drink industry. Rather,
I think it is a response to the bad press soft drinks
and bottled-in-plastic tap water have been getting from
medical, public health, and environmentalist types. The
tactic is simple: buy some doctors to offset those who
point out the obvious downsides of the soft-drink
industry's products. They are doubtless mindful of the
way the tobacco industry's business has been attacked
and are trying to construct a defense. I do not
believe Coca-Cola will be officially prescribed in the
near future (although you never know).
Escape_the_Cult_Now
"Anarcissie" <anarc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:anarcissie-C2D0E...@reader1.panix.com...
Pay-and-Play Scam. They should all be arrested (the doctors paid-off) and
Coka Cola, and the people in the Obama Admin., who came up with the idea.
ta
> In article <pan.2009.11.19.14.16...@erkonx.net>,
It's a corporate partnership. Monsanto and Cargill monopolize the food
industry by producing unhealthy corn-based products on a grand scale
that goes into everything from coca-cola to ketchup to mcdonald's
cheeseburgers, which creates pervasive health problems like diabetes
and obesity, which creates enormous profit opportunities for Pfizer
and Glaxo.
ZerkonXXXX
> I do not
> believe Coca-Cola will be officially prescribed in the near future
> (although you never know).
Right. You do remember the history of Coca Cola?
WIKI:
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In 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation,
Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, essentially a non-alcoholic
version of French Wine Cola. The first sales were at Jacob's Pharmacy in
Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. It was initially sold as a patent
medicine for five cents a glass at soda fountains, which were popular in
the United States at the time due to the belief that carbonated water was
good for the health. Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases,
including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and
impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May
29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal.
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When launched Coca-Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl
ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leaf and
the caffeine from kola nut, leading to the name Coca-Cola (the "K" in
Kola was replaced with a "C" for marketing purposes).
*Anarcissie*
Those were the days, eh?
Actually, I have heard of Coca Cola being
recommended by doctors to control nausea.
The active ingredient is the kola extract, but
a bottle of Coke is cheaper than a bottle of
kola extract and a lot easier to find.
Coca-Cola was also prescribed for rusty
pipes to me by a salesman at Monkey
Ward in the deep, deep South, back
in my wayward youth. Instead of using
penetrating oil, he said "Just get you a
bottle of Coke, set it in the sun awhile, and
when it gets nice and warm you pour it on
that ol' pipe joint and it'll come right apart."
He was right, too. Something to think
about when you're washing your own
inner pipe joints with this mysterious
potion.
Phlip
>> ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leaf and
>> the caffeine from kola nut, leading to the name Coca-Cola (the "K" in
>> Kola was replaced with a "C" for marketing purposes).
>
> Those were the days, eh?
In Peru, the ingredient list on a can of Coke does not list "caffeine"...
ZerkonXXXX
> In Peru, the ingredient list on a can of Coke does not list
> "caffeine"...
Why is that?