“Anprac expresses its strongest protest at the regrettable statements by Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, who described our products as ‘bottled poison’,” the agency said.
Mexico City, July 19 (However) .- The National Association of Producers of Refreshments and Carbonated Waters (Anprac) failed the “Stigmatization” by the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, against the soft drinks companies and called the dialogue “respectful and constructive”.
Through a statement, the organization expressed its rejection of the specialist’s statements about the negative consumption of soft drinks during the afternoon conference on Saturday to give the details of COVID-19.
“The National Association of Producers of Soft Drinks and Carbonated Waters (Anprac) expresses its strongest protest at the regrettable statements of the Under-Secretary for Prevention and Promotion of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, who described our products ‘as bottled poison'” .
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– Mexican Beverage Industry (@AnpracAC) July 19, 2020
And it is that yesterday, López-Gatell Ramírez affirmed that to preserve the health of the Mexicans, who today face the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to leave soft drinks and other industrialized products out of the diet.
“Why do we need bottled poison, soda poison? Why do we need donuts, cupcakes, chips that bring toxic food and environmental pollution? The bottles go to rivers and then to the sea, ”he said during the start of the local community health intervention strategy in Chiapas.
“Obesity, diabetes and hypertension are silent diseases that can lead to great complications. Anyone with diabetes should take care of themselves every day, and not just with medicine. It’s not just going to the health center and being prescribed, and getting me out of there with medicine; no, what do we eat, how much salt do we put in the food, enough of the salt. Food already brings salt. How much sugar do the drinks bring… ”, explained López-Gatell Ramírez in front of Zoé Robledo Aburto, director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS).
“Mexico’s health would be different if we had been fooled by the lifestyles that come from television and are heard on the radio as if it were happiness. They are called games that are bottled, but they are not juices. It is sugar paint, “added the official.
Every time an adult person drinks four 600 milliliter bottles of this soft drink, they are ingesting an amount equivalent to 50 coffee tablespoons of sugar of five grams each, that is, they consume more than 500 percent of the recommended daily intake of sugars , according to estimates by the civil organization, El Poder del Consumidor.
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