Don't be Fooled by Pepsi's Deceptive Marketing Tricks

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spant — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:17:08 GMT

Someone needs to inform the urban legend page that they are advertising false information....http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp
I wrote in, but one person writing in won't help..please all of you write to them. Thank you
Spant

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stelow — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:54:27 GMT

It still takes money to live in our society and PepsiCo employs alot of people. If the products they sold were not popular with the masses there would be alot of people out of a good paying job.

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fredmart — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:29:39 GMT

This is the main reason my husband and I have nearly stopped watching TV altogether except for some Netflix movies and after The Sopranos last episode, only a few sports will be watched. We try to watch our health by exercising and cooking our own food however we still have quite a bit to go as it is difficult (habitually and financially) to adopt all these great recommendations on this site. Our son just turned one and we are proud to not sit him in front of the TV. Now if we go somewhere and the TV is on he has no interest and we intend to keep it that way. No need to have another typical American...TV watching, microwave dinners, junk food eater!

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blasto — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:21:08 GMT

Although I personally think some of the dangers of aspartame are overrated, and understudied (esp. in humans), I had a weird experience with it.

For about 6 months, I had been feeling foggy in the head, and really quite depressed. It was becoming hard to function normally. I went to a doctor, who ran the tests, and came up with the diagnosis I was depressed! Not wanting to get on the S#RI bandwagon, I took the script and headed off to a recommended naturopath.

She did a complete rundown on what I ate, drank & did, & told me that if I gave up my four cans of diet cola a day, and stopped eating white bread (to this day I don't know why I ever did, it's glue in your intestines!!), I would feel 100%. She whipped up a herbal concoction, sent me off to try it out.

Less than FOUR months later, I was indeed 100%. There is a clear moral to this story, and I'd suggest not only relying on medicine to fix non-specific problems like this!

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blasto — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:20:43 GMT

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curious7 — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:50:38 GMT

It is all about the money. I care not what anyone says. Look at things this way, if Big Business were to give consumers a good quailty product, there would be no need to advertise. Word of mouth would sell the product.

So we need to have all the visual ads to get consumers to purchase sub grade products. In this case products that endanger ones health. Problem is there are too many of us who do not read. We take these products as something good simply because the commercial says so. Corporate America will tell any lie, forward any deception, to separate us from our money.

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peggysue777 — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:48:20 GMT

I quit drinking Coke or Pepsi a year ago in August, and I have never felt better!! But now I watch evryone around me use Pepsi for their dinner drink, in between, and all day long, even feed it to their kids. It breaks my heart, and not a thing I can do about it. I have lost 27 pds, and I know it is due to cutting out soda, eating Millet for breakfast with a Tablespoon of Coconut Oil and taking pro-biotics, I highly recommend this for anyone wanting to loose weight.

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Steve M — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:54:23 GMT

The Australian "Heart Foundation" gave McDonalds the "Heart Foundation tick of approval" for a range of McDonalds meals, including meals containing Big Mac's quarter pounders etc.

Under public scrutiny (Australians needed convincing, which I found positive), the Heart Foundation explained that it was because these meals were more heart healthy that "the traditional meal".

Substitute a Big Mac, large fries and Large Coke for a Big Mac, salad and orange juice, pay a little fee (or a large one), and you can claim your food as heart healthy.

(and most importantly, by getting in first, no-one else in fast food can get the tick, regardless of what they offer).

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Rett — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:11:02 GMT

"Diet soda may double your risk of obesity". There is no "MAY" about it. I am living proof that diet sodas doubles the risk of obesity. I was a total fan of Pepsi. I could have been a Pepsi poster girl. Three and four and six a day and maybe more. I drank Pepsi instead of water. Now I"m paying the price. I was a petite, slender, gorgeous young girl and now I am a fat, ugly old lady. We all ought to visit the Pepsico site and leave our own personal message that the smart spot campaign is a total lie and a joke. At least they will know there are those who don't believe Pepsi is good food. :) lol These people are laughing all the way to the bank. I struggle everyday to learn how to reverse the damage I cause myself believing the commercial hype. I worked in a store that sold soda pop and was absolutely floored when these women would talk about their blood sugar being down and they needed a soft drink and a candy bar to get it back to normal. I wanted to scream at them, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING"? Then I have to deal with doctors who want to load me up with drugs to address my health problems. I don't think so.

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Sonagi — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:41:41 GMT

The following story from Yahoo News is still more proof that the FDA and the food industry are partners in dangerous deception:

Some Frito-Lay products to bear new heart claim: FDA

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Gone are the days — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:26:35 GMT

I did not want to be addicted to any substance, so I quit all caffeine-laced drinks--except tea. which I do not drink on a regular basis. Never again will I desire that frazzled feeling from too much caffeine, as well as the droopy feeling afterward.

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Rogway — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:46:52 GMT

Overlook my spelling again. I got to see and interesting article about how companies advertise to win the people. It is called neu-ro-logical. You know, putting a picture in your eye to keep you occupied so you don't pay any attention to the words they are saying along with the small print that is always stuck in the corner of the TV you never look at. They are doing it with a variety of colors mainly red and yellow and cartoon hero's for kids. Even adults can't help but to pick up a product that they don't want to begin with and have no idea why they bought it. They proved it by interviewing people that were buying products that had been advertised the neu-ro-logically way and they admitted they didn't know exactly why they bought them. I wonder if that would be the same thing as taking a subliminal vacation. Never the less it is to prosper in any way, shape or form. If all of the people at pepsico and all others that make those drinks is so sure they are unharmful to consume, then, lets form a commitee to watch and make sure they drink it at every meal and for thirst and all the time. And be sure to give it to their kids while they watch. No, just kidding, wouldn't want the kids to have to be forced to drink it. But i wonder what would happen it their kids were forced to drink it all of the time while they watched! Remember the coors light commercial that sent sales skyrocketing overnight. They had a woman with barely enough bikkini to cover her privates for the man to look at so they wouldn't pay any attention to the words he heard or the six-pack she was carrying, and the muscle men on the beach that was watching her for the women to look at equaling the same results. Simply amazing how deceivement works.

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Lynn46 — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:07:14 GMT

Readers,
All of us "Mercolians" know that PepsiCo is one of the most despicable of the Food Manufacturing Conglomerates. They deceive (yes, outright lie), cheat, and make many millions.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the U.S. public doesn't know better and believe the corporate advertising and the b******t they see on mainstream media about diet and health issues.

We MUST reach the children of today and teach them how to think critically about information they receive (and I mean long before they reach college age) if we want them to live at least as long as us older people

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wetherbee333 — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:49:48 GMT

I can drink gatorade, for some reason it makes my legs swell and get a rash that looks like a chemical burn. Pepsi makes my stomach sick and gives me a headache. They both taste yucky doo doo anyway. Thats all I have to say about that.

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nanciesweb — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:12:47 GMT

Pepsi is currently having a can design contest.

I was thinking of submitting an entry that might include the poison skull and crossbone sticker, surgeon general's warning, and a couple of other misc. danger symbols.

Do you think it will win?