Corpore sana,mens sana. Stimulants and ennervating substances in modern soft drinks

I believe that caffeine can keep Alzheimer's under control and limit the disastrous effects of unipolar depression. However,one of the facts of modern life is that for consumers of soft drinks,those substances are sold as pick-me-up beverages.

I think in particular of sodium benzoate extracted from molasses and castors,one set of these plants grown for animal nutrition by early Scottish settlers.

It is symptomatic of science gone mad that firms are putting the extracts of animal food such as sodium benzoate and other plant steroid products up for sale to humans as laxative beverages. My dear sirs,that is one of the hidden tricks and grand degradations of modern industry.

What sodium benzoate is designed to emulate is egg boast. It fills the stomach without quenching hunger.

I conclude that ingredient labelling is less than fulsome.

No compound substance comes alone. It forms part of a compound. The extraction of sodium benzoate from molasses was touted as an advance of the modern age. Perish modern industrial production if this is the result. 

Time to examine Progress,perhaps?

 Science is not the universal panacea which Marx in the 1860's thought that it would become in the lifetimes of future generations. Resources are finite and only gluttons do not limit consumption and refrain from what those doctors have advised them against consuming on the basis of honest reporting.

Some other points....

 It is notable that Kieran Allen makes the same mistake. Note Kieran Allen's contemporary articles on 'scientific farming". He claimed that with the appliance of agronomy,the world could feed five times it's existent population (2001-3).

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