A Fattening Top Seller in the Streets Today

One day on my way home from Makati, I noted something that makes me wonder less why more people--young and old--are getting fat in Manila these days.

The culprit? Cheap ice cream.

Well, ice cream does have milk, which is healthy, but more than milk it also contains lots of sugar and cream. And I mean lots of sugar--especially the kind that sells well like hot cakes in the streets today. You see them everywhere, in almost every street corner and fast food stores--especially when some fast food stores have a kind of a forward-store in front of them, several meters nearer pedestrians.

The ice cream is cheap--you can buy at P5 to P15 per cone. And they give you a nice, big-enough scoop per cone, so you'd be lured to buy regularly. You'd be thrilled about buying so big with so cheap a price. You can't believe it! It's a smart marketing strategy and it works. I mean, just look at the overweight people around you today--kids, teenagers and adults.

Moreover, you note that they put up stores near big schools, targeting our kids. Just along EDSA in Quezon City, I saw lines of fast food stores selling this ice cream around a big high school. And guess what the sizes of students are in that school. And it's not funny if you know how excess white sugar in the body can easily lead to diabetes at an early age, and the kidney problems following.

But what can we do? Ban our kids from buying the ice cream? Petition the school to petition against the fast food stores? Reduce the allowance we give our kids?

Useless.

The better way is to find how we can help protect our loved ones from the unhealthy effects of junk food. What else is better than exercise and supplements? And with supplements, I always go for Vital-C non-acidic Vitamin C. It boosts immune defense, prevents abnormal blood sugar levels, and gets rid of toxins from junk food fast. In short, Vital-C can help curve the side effects of junk food like cheap sugar-rich ice cream.

Since I have my 12-year old kid take Vital-C regularly, he's not been suffering from asthma and broncho-pneumonia attacks anymore, praise GOD! And now, the same with my niece. These allergic reactions are caused by harmful chemicals in junk foods plus pollution in the environment.

So try Vital-C today!