Sodas get a bad rap because they contain high fructose corn syrup.

For some reason, “health drinks” like Vitamin Water don’t, although they contain crystalline fructose, which is pretty much the same thing. In fact, crystalline Fructose includes an even higher percentage of fructose than HFCS.

What? Is our society a sucker for drinks with pretty labels and witty text? Can just anyone put a bright, happy label on something obviously unhealthy and still get us to buy it?

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Here’s the catch: if you don’t wake up right away, or you hit the snooze button too many times, you’re going to have to get up and shut it off because it’ll be halfway across the room, thanks to it’s very own set of wheels. It purposely has a very annoying ringing sound that makes it impossible to sleep through- think of R2d2 from Star Wars.

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When someone takes distilled water- “soft” water stripped of vitamins not to mention that it is surrounded by controversy regarding if it’s bad for you- and then sits in a lab mixing chemicals until they have something that looks like it’s healthy on the label, (or somewhat), then what you’ve really got is an artificial substitute for water that’s worse than soda.

And what’s the culprit lurking in Coke and Pepsi cans all over the world? High fructose corn syrup. But soda doesn’t win this round for most unhealthful drink, because Vitamin Water evens the score with it’s very own crystalline fructose- which is the same thing. Talk about giving an old danger a new name.

Misleading marketing? I think so.

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Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile, been in a long blank period. So now I am back, trying to get you a new thing to help you in life every week. Sorry is just a word without action to prove it.

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In the last decade consumers have been buying granite, something that could possibly cause health risks. Depending on several factors, your granite countertops could pose a health risk. On each side of the argument, people are debating how big of a health risk these countertops have. There’s no rock hard evidence saying that all granite [...]

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My percentage of articles that I’ve been writing has been dropping severely, as shown by this rough statistic by one of our very own staff members, Piratical Lord of the Guitars. July: Rika- 27% PLOTG-73% June Rika-33% Hope-22% Jennith-22% PLOTG-33% May Hope-17% Calister-17% Jennith-8% Jemaine- 17% Rika- 25% Socrates-8% PLOTG- 8% April Rika-31% Jemaine- 8% [...]

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The opening ceremony of the Olympics was incredible- the visual effects and the atmosphere created was truly memorable and has definitely earned a place in history. But all technological wonders of this quickly advancing countries, I noticed many other things, too. Here are some of my observations: It was spectacular, but I can’t help but [...]

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We all know this time was going to come: when even something you witness with your own eyes could be altered and changed until it was no longer the truth. Photo editors and video editing programs are making lying in plain sight a whole lot easier- and with the growing power placed in the hands [...]

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If you remember, I wrote an article a while ago about the iPhone. The price was outrageous- and I guess they listened to the public, because there’s a new iPhone! Don’t you think that sooner or later people are going to get tired of the new upgraded iPhones because then the public feels like they [...]

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Every so often, a culture phenomenon comes around and unites several million people for a cause. In the future, historians will look back on these years and note the rise in popularity in young adult novels; Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter are the two most prominent. With an increasing amount of children [...]

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