After reading the comments below, I thought I would add my two cents. I spent ten years as a public health nurse in an area of rural Kentucky experiencing a years long outbreak of TB. Treating small children IS a nightmare! While not a fan of soft drinks and its negative public health effects, I applaud Pepsi for their efforts to make TB meds more palatable for children. This can have an effect worldwide on a disease that those of us in our comfortable "first world" lives rarely or never consider. Thank you for publishing this important news.
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My father was a physician who had plenty of experience doing tonsillectomies and dealing with children.
Hence, he kept a small bottle of uncarbonated cola syrup from the druggist to help us get down distasteful medication. This was in 1960.
Hence, he kept a small bottle of uncarbonated cola syrup from the druggist to help us get down distasteful medication. This was in 1960.
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Many parents used to use cola syrup for upset stomachs.And for some reason it apparently works.
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It confirms many millennials' belief that corporations can and should play a meaningful role in changing the world for the better. I guess Pepsi is number one in this case.
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A drop in the ocean... but every little bit helps.
Yes NYT....pepsi is helping children swallow their tuberculosis medicine with their patent and "addictive" sugary flavoring.........which will condition 11 million sugary pepsi ,customer addicts(10 tsp of sugar per pepsi) creating the potential conditions for the same number of diabetes,hyperactivity, and attention deficit disorders .......please NYT more journalistic scepticism and investigative review of the causal motivation and broad perspective in your stories.
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"“I have to admit that when we went more public about this internally, some of our people raised the issue of this being a company that’s selling sugar to kids and making people fat and did we really want to be associated with that,” Dr. Spigelman said. '
The difficulty will always be that PepsiCo doesn't shove it's product into someone's mouth and some sweetness in moderation will always be beneficial, if not life sustaining. Coke used to be (and still is) a valid fluid replacement in any sever dysentery.
Now if they supersize TB tablets, maybe we're back to square one.
The difficulty will always be that PepsiCo doesn't shove it's product into someone's mouth and some sweetness in moderation will always be beneficial, if not life sustaining. Coke used to be (and still is) a valid fluid replacement in any sever dysentery.
Now if they supersize TB tablets, maybe we're back to square one.
Thank you, NYT, for printing Pepico's press release.
Please! This is nothing more than a soft drink manufacturer working to generate positive brand PR, and a taste for Pepsi in children, in an era municipalities are moving to tax soft drinks to limit sugar intake, when public health says that soft drinks contribute to an epidemic of obesity, etc. I, for one, suspect the worst here from the TB/Pepsi connection.
Take a strain. In so far as we know the TB drugs aren't being branded Pepsi. As to developing a taste for Pepsi; Coke and Pepsi are indistinguishable.
A plausible explanations are professionals behaving professionally, and having an application to think outside the box which can have future benefits. It is similar to BMW's design people supporting the Paralympics.
A plausible explanations are professionals behaving professionally, and having an application to think outside the box which can have future benefits. It is similar to BMW's design people supporting the Paralympics.
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It is fascinating to see the path divergence between Pepsi and Coke. Both are using a sweetened concoction to placate the taste buds but their value is shifting. Pepsi seems to be more health friendly. Folks at Pepsi have a different thinking cap. All the best.
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