Why do we worry so much about soft drinks?!

Everyday we are bombarted with advertisements on Coke, Dr. Pepper, Diet Coke, Diet Dr. Pepper, etc. I can honestly say whenever I watch TV I see so many commercials on a soft drinks. They are appealing too these days because of the actress's or actors in them. (Movie Stars or Singers) Starting at the beginning of my senior year I made a promise to myself to stay on a good drinking diet. Lemonade, Water, and Tea, but tea and lemonade with little sugar. Of course I have an occasional soft drink but not an excessive amount. Right around the time I made this promise to myself I began to wonder, why exactly am I doing this?
I do this because it makes me feel better and it's the better choice for my body. You always here how we need to consume a lot of water and how healthy it is for us. Water really does make me feel a lot better and healthier feeling. Lemonade has been my transition for a Dr. Pepper. But it still makes my friends and  other people ask me why I worry so much about drinking soft drinks. What's the big deal? Why go through life worrying about consuming so many soft drinks a day, I mean that's why they were invented right??!
I believe once you hear this.. you'll begin to know why some people worry!

Caffeine is known today to be bad for our bodies. A little bit will not hurt but an excess amount in one day can cause some problems. Caffeine can seriously wear us down even though it is said to give us a sense of energy. It may at the time but when it is all said and done the caffeine consumer will be left with a low feeling of exhaustion. When we get this tired feeling the caffeine is also taking an affect on our GABA system, therefore many get stressed. (Which we all know stress is so bad on a person, leading to many other health risks.)
One common example of the energized feeling turning into a tired feeling would be the use of energy drinks. I know I am even a craver for red bulls but they are so bad for us! At the time you and I do not think about how bad they are but they really are. Red bull contains a total of 80 milligrams of caffeine. Not only does an energy drink consume a lot but look.. Coke has 34.5 milligrams and Dr. Pepper has 41 milligrams of caffeine. WOW!!
Caffeine in these three drinks alone can cause a lot of damage to a person even death!!! There is seriously a website,on line, that you can go too that detects when you can die from a certain amount!! First, put in you soft drink or energy drink you consume the most then put in your weight. After doing all of this you click the "kill me" button and it will tell you how many cans will kill you!
http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine This link will take you to this site. It is very astonishing!
Of course everyone is always going to have their own opinions and no one is going to be able to change their minds, but I feel like people should at least take this information in consideration. I know I have a friend from home who's motto for life is "live hard die young", for me it's pretty much the exact opposite! I have so many goals for my future to where I really think about health risks with consuming too much caffeine. I am not saying to not consume any at all because that would be too hard but too much can lead to a life long road of disappoints from poor choices.

Poison to our mouths..

What are we always told before eating some kind of produce? To rinse it off right?! Therefore, it's cleaned off and there's less of a chance for us getting sick or digesting something gross that was on the food. Did you know.. that even if you have rinsed off, lets say some grapes, there still can be pesticides on your grapes??! Yes, pesticides! Can you say gross!!! Pesticides are used to kill pest so it's a chemical. When we eat fruit or any other produce we are eating those chemicals and they are being put into our bodies harming a lot of vital organs we need to live.
A lot of children across seas are more likely to die or be sick with pesticides due to the chemicals that are sprayed on their farms. (It still occurs in the U.S though.) A story once talked about elementary children playing out at recess and some workers had just sprayed some crops with pesticide killer. The children instantly were affected by the aroma. Some simply fainted while others were choking. It is horrible how humans are affected so greatly by pesticides. So it leaves us asking what do we do about it? So many farmers use pesticide killer especially for bigger farms, what can an alternative be?
Honestly, I do not what an alternative could be for the larger farm areas because the only alternative of pesticide killer I can think for smaller crops would be using something with less chemicals, such as a pesticide known as a wasp pesticide. This wasp doesn't sting humans they just eat up pests that want to destroy the crops. There are a lot of other different pest killers too that don't require all of those damaging chemicals.
The side effects and illnesses from these chemicals can be life threatening. Why don't people who use these pest killers think about how the chemicals are harming humans. Humans lungs, brain, liver, pretty much anything can be damaged for the rest of their lives by not only inhaling the fumes but my eating on food that had/has pesticides on it.
Then we go into talking about the foods out in the supermarkets that are sold with pesticides in/on them. Why does this happen?? That's not right to sale a consumer something like that, that can harm them. I simply think it's wrong. Isn't food suppose to go through some type of special food expection before being sold? If it has pesticides with it how is that passing a test? I love fruit and I'm always buying it in produce section at the store. I don't know what I would do if I was sold some fruit that had pesticides on it and I ate them. Obviously, I would be very sick but I'm pretty sure my mom would be very mad at the food expectors for letting that fruit go through the test and not help back due to the pesticides in it.