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 a...