{"id":32312,"date":"2017-04-25T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32312"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:28:58","slug":"qotd-coca-cola-seen-as-harmful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/qotd-coca-cola-seen-as-harmful\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Coca-Cola seen as harmful"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate sweet drinks \u2014 Coca-Cola et al.<\/em> \u2014 so passionately that I grow angry whenever I see someone buy or drink one. I hate their taste, I hate the horrible plastic bottles in which they come; to see people carry them around with them as if they were dolls or comfort blankets infuriates me. It appalls me worse that anyone actually likes <\/em>them. The drinks don\u2019t relieve thirst, they merely create it and make their drinkers wish for more: a perfect recipe, from a certain unscrupulous commercial point of view. <\/p>\n

I was therefore secretly pleased to read in a paper published recently in the British Medical Journal<\/em> that those who drink these disgusting concoctions are more likely than others to develop type 2 diabetes \u2014 the type that is increasing throughout the world at an alarming pace, and in some countries even threatening to reverse the increase in life expectancy to which of late decades we have grown accustomed as part of the natural order of things and now think of almost as a human right. Such diabetes is not only the wages of sin \u2014 gluttony \u2014 but of something that affects our everyday lives even worse, namely mass bad taste.<\/p>\n

Of course, the paper in the BMJ<\/em> can be criticized. A statistical association is not by itself proof of causation, though I should be surprised in this instance if the relationship were not causative. Again, in my heart of hearts I hope that it is. It would restore my faith that the universe is just.<\/p>\n

Theodore Dalrymple, “Gluttons for Punishment”, Taki’s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2015-07-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate sweet drinks \u2014 Coca-Cola et al. \u2014 so passionately that I grow angry whenever I see someone buy or drink one. I hate their taste, I hate the horrible plastic bottles in which they come; to see people carry them around with them as if they were dolls or comfort blankets infuriates me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,66,41],"tags":[428,150,513,1289],"class_list":["post-32312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-marketing","tag-obesity","tag-research","tag-theodoredalrymple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32313,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32312\/revisions\/32313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}