Soft drinks ?

by Myke
(United Kingdom)

Hi my name's Myke. I read your article on soft drinks after drinking orange fanta and my heart rate went up really high.

The article was very informative I found which I must say thank you for. I have a small problem with it after reading the article. I noticed the sponsored links underneath, i.e. Fanta, which is part of the Coca Cola group I think.

If you wrote such a brilliant article on how damaging soft fizzy (soda) drinks are to your health or to anyone's health, why do you have a link to a soft drink company that makes these products which are not good for any of us!?

Thank you very much for the article and your time to read this question.

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Sara says:

Dear Myke, thank you for your concern. I took a look but don't see the ad as the ads rotate. But rest assured I'm as concerned as you are. What happens is that the space at the end of the article is let out to Google for advertising.

Google automatically searches out surrounding words of the article and put up an advertisement by relevant advertisers, in this case, Fanta or Coca-cola. The system doesn't recognize what the content is about, or whether it's against soft drinks. It only picks out the words "soft drinks", thus matches it with soft drinks advertiser.

Thank you again for taking the time to voice your concern. I will continue to look out for this advertiser and block it from advertising on my website pages. Neither will I support their harmful products.

Hope you're feeling better now that you've stopped drinking soft drinks and replacing with drinking fresh juices instead. :)

Sara