Drinks
Drinking Problems
by Paul Vallejo People say that when you drink you tend to forget everything around yourself. It takes to a utopia which works at your whims and fancy. Sordid and grim realities are dumped or may be for few hours its seems as if they don’t exist. O what a wonderful feeling! It does have a healing effect to your tired and wretched senses and nerves. This isn’t bad at all. Real problem appears when things start crossing their designated limits. Am not professing the fact that drinking will always do well or drinking will always wreak havoc. Instead all am trying to say is alcohol has its own fair share of pros and cons where the latter has always topped and surpassed the other.
Human being is a creature of habit. Everything that we do from dawn to dusk is a habituated action. So life becomes an ordeal when people have to shed their old- die hard habits in lieu of new, healthy and beneficial counterparts. The fear of accommodating the new rules and habits is so much that many doesn’t even try that although knowing that the current wrong habits are killing… Continue reading
Soft Drinks
by Soft Drinks
*Dr.P.Shanmukha Rao **Dr.N.V.S.Suryanarayana
Introduction:
Soft drink market size for FY00 was around 270mn cases (6480mn bottles). The market witnessed 5- 6% growth in the early‘90s. Presently the market growth has growth rate of 7- 8% per annum compared to 22% growth rate in the previous year. The market size for FY01 is expected to be 7000mn bottles.
Soft Drink Production area
The market preference is highly regional based. While cola drinks have main markets in metro cities and northern states of UP, Punjab, Haryana etc. Orange flavored drinks are popular in southern states.
Sodas too are sold largely in southern states besides sale through bars. Western markets have preference towards mango flavored drinks. Diet coke presently constitutes just 0.7% of the total carbonated beverage market.
Growth promotional activities
The government has adopted liberalized policies for the soft drink trade to give the industry a boast and promote the Indian brands internationally. Although the import and manufacture of international brands like Pepsi and Coke is enhanced in India the local brands are being stabilized by advertisements, good quality and low cost.
The soft drinks market till early 1990s was in hands of domestic players like Campa, Thumps… Continue reading
Drinking Poison
by roboppyThat’s what it’s like to keep a resentment, drinking poison and hoping for someone else to die. Kind of stupid isn’t it?
An Orientalopinion is that if your’re likely to cultivate a resentment, you might as well dig two graves. One for the other person and the other for your own.
I had a really dear friend that killed himself over a resentment to his father. At least I think that it was a resentment. Why else would he have placed his fathers chair atop his father’s desk and knelt down looking at it to die of an overdose?
The 4th step in the twelve step process consists of a searching a moral inventory of ourselves. What this does is allow us to set down on paper ever person, place or thing that you’re angry with.
What the heck is carried out with this list? Well, one will then discuss this with a sponsor and discover what is the underlying belief that we hold onto this anger.
When we understand the problem along with the reason, then we can easily begin clearing out the problems.
It is said that about 80% of most illness is due… Continue reading