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Imagine going on a hike and there was no sign telling you there is a cliff ahead, or some kind of dangerous animal. You probably would run right off that cliff, or get stuck in the hands of a dangerous bear, what could have prevented that? A big sign saying DANGER AHEAD! Let's talk about something that you may not know could lead to serious problems like, obesity and diabetes. It is everywhere you go pretty much, there when you enter and there when you leave. It is a can of soda. I strongly agree that warning labels should be put on soda. My three reasons include, soda contains an enormous amount of sugar, the sugar in soda is addictive, and the fact that big corporations don't want the labels to be put on their soda.

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There are multiple strange ingredients that are in soda. " These include high levels of sugar, (or even worse high fructose corn syrup), corrosive phosphoric acid, naturally caramel coloring, and one of the most well known drug that has a powerful effect on your brain chemistry - it is called caffeine." ( Action on sugar. n.d.) The caffeine in soda is why it is so addictive. You should see why you shouldn't drink soda because it has the worlds most popular psychoactive drug. " When you drink soda, the caffeine is absorbed through your small intestine, and into your blood stream. Caffeine is both a water and a fat soluble. It is easy to cross the blood-brain barrier to affect your brain cells directly. This increases alertness. After that it stimulates the brain to produce the old flight or fight chemical, adrenaline. Your body was not meant to be in that state constantly and when the effects of the caffeine wear off, you'll most of the time be exhausted . After your body will just keeping wanting more and more of the adrenaline and therefore making the soda addictive to you." ( Health ambition. n.d.) Awful right. It just attacks your brain cells, killing them, but keeps your body wanting more. Knowing that makes labels seem good right? As well as that the recent brain scans show, " That eating/drinking sugar affects the same parts of the brain as addictive drugs. Some reasearch even shows that sugar is even more addictive than most drugs," LLyod ( 2014 ). See I was lying this stuff can be really addictive. If it is as addictive as drugs, your body could be hurting in a way you didn't even know it could. See why the soda labels may help people realize what is really going on in their

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