YEH DIL MAANGE NO MORE

The recent report of CSE claims that the pesticide residue in soft-drinks has shot up to 23 times than that of bottled drinking water with virulent chemicals like lindane, heptachlor and chlorpyrifos found well above the permissible limits. This menace is not just limited to colas ,even milk and vegetables you buy from the road-side vendor are replete with harmful chemicals. Contamination occurs due to various reasons: overuse of pesticides by farmers, industrial sludge, air contamination and use of pesticides for storing food-grains. The contamination has become so deep rooted in our genetic configuration that even mother’s breast milk has a very high DDT content.

There has to be a drastic change in our jet-setting lifestyle we eat what we get, irrespective of its long term affect on our health. The younger generation especially the school, college going crowd virtually lives off colas. They have become such an integral part of our life that we don’t even bother to think that what we are drinking can lead us to diseases like cancer. Students throng McDonalds and Nirulas, guzzle pints of these deadly beverages, without realizing its consequences. Also, these drinks are a rich source of empty calories. We should switch to healthier drinks like fruit juices,flavoured milk etc.. But the problem is that these college students don’t want their peers to sneer at them for drinking lassi, nariyal panni.


We should switch to organic fruits and vegetables even though they may be a bit heavy on the pocket but considering the long term implications, it’s a fairdeal. Also, farmers should be encouraged to switch to organic farming.
The health ministry and supreme court have finally woken up and have ordered coke,pepsi to disclose their ingredients.The following articles present a complete picture:1 2

update(7th aug):Rajasthan and gujarat govts. have woken up from their siesta and banned pepsi,coke in schools and colleges. But this is not the solution ,we should make the youth aware about their harmful effects and let them make a choice. Also, its human tendancy to crave for things that are forbidden!!!