Yeah, you read that right. I'm quitting Coke (the drink not the drug ;).

I won't say that I'll never have any again. I can't think of any way to more surely sabotage my efforts than that. Just that Coke's stock might plummet a little over the intervening days and weeks.

My health has been a little weird lately and I had one of those middle of the night revelations as to the culprit. Coke is, after all, a poison. I gave it a pass since it was my only vice (don't smoke, don't do drugs and drink alcohol so rarely I'm probably safe in saying I don't drink). I don't even drink any other sodas and I don't see the point in exchanging one poison for another. I guess my body has processed as much poison it cares to and it needs better if it's going to function better.

So I sit here, drinking water, and offering a symbolic toast goodbye to my demon-disguised-friend.

Sigh...

Damn all Mass Producing Soulless Companies to a new level of hell, under perpetual construction!

Propel Water (by Gatorade) has decided to replace the relatively safe sucrose sweetener with high fructose corn syrup. HFCS is one of the main reasons I need to get off Coke. That siren calling bitch is the WORST of the poisons out there and it's in goddamn EVERYTHING. Including bread for instance.

So it's damn near impossible to not eat something arsenic ladden (even tap water with its fluoride and medical drugs diluting anything watery about it) and Gatorade (a company that positions its image as healthy drinking) has decided to toss in with the devil too. Yet another poison to avoid. They were going to be my by-pass on my little road from addition, but their sales won't be spiking any time soon.

Feel free to imagine a happy place for me now, while I go off to swear about soulless profit-seeking death mongering America for a minute.






Yeah, I'm back.

Whatever. America is what it is and the state of someone else's soul is not my concern. I will go off and attempt to find something safe to eat and drink.