soda

thought some of you may find this interesting. it is from the dr. mercola news letter:


Do you want to be healthy? Drinking soda is bad for your health in so many ways; science can’t even state all the consequences. Here’s what happens in your body when you assault it with a Coke:

Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don’t vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

Within 20 minutes, your blood sugar spikes, and your liver responds to the resulting insulin burst by turning massive amounts of sugar into fat.

Within 40 minutes, caffeine absorption is complete; your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream.

Around 45 minutes, your body increases dopamine production, which stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain – a physically identical response to that of heroin, by the way.

After 60 minutes, you’ll start to have a sugar crash.

Sources: Nutrition Research Center October 24, 2007

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I remember I used to drink a little soda on the weekends only, with supper and if playing cards with friends, then I got into a bad habit of drinking it every night at supper as well as the weekends, well, for the first time in my life (besides 2 times being pregnant) I gained alot of weight over 2ish yrs I gained 50 pounds...that is alot of weight on a normally small framed 5'5" girl....I'm so glad I wised up to soda and other high sugar foods and gave processed sugar up completely...thank goodness for Stevia, although now that I have processed sugar out of my diet, I don't often crave sweet like I used to and when I do, any fruit satisfies that craving...and I lost the extra pounds, which came off quickly once I gave up the junk....now, no more "junk in the trunk" LOL!

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Gatoraide has way too much sugar, more than a coke. Juice also is as bad as a coke, compare ingredients. Drinking Gatoraide pushed my father over the diabieties line and when I went to the doctor for iv fluids from dehydration they told me to never drink straight Gatoraide, mix it with a lot of water. I usually drink 2 caffine free cokes a day and the only other beverage is water, lots of water.

Hello
Yes, I know soda is bad for us Crohnies but I can't stop. I feel as if I'm addicted to pepsi, lol. I have cut it down to 2 to 3 cans a day. I just can't drink water for dinner.
As I write this my wife is yelling at me that I need to stop the soda. It does increase my symptoms and I really need to find something else to drink. At least I don't drink any coffee.

Soda is the devil. It makes me flare and once I flare...well, you know. I don't drink soda anymore, only water. I'm glad I stopped drinking so much soda, I was completely addicted. *cringes*

I love soda- but in my part of the country we call it pop I'm trying so, so hard to cut back but it's so difficult. It's not the caffeine and sugar because I drink diet caffeine-free Dr. Pepper. But I like having a flavored beverage with my dinner.

Yankee, something that's been helping me is to drink water and pop for dinner- slowly I've been able to drink mostly water and a few sips of pop. My ultimate goal is no pop ever, but right now I'm saying pop only on weekends. We'll see how that goes...

I learned in a class recently that drinking pop, whether it's diet or regular, significantly increases the risk of diabetes. I can't remember exactly how much but it was enough to scare me into giving up my favorite drink. That surprised me because I always thought sugar was the culprit in pop that led to diabetes, but the research showed the effect with diet pop, too. I'd rather give up pop than live with diabetes, for sure!

Hey Emom thats a great idea. I am going to check that out. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Harry for sharing that!
I am going to save this thread for my friend who is absolutely addicted to soda.
I found a very easy solution to stop drinking sodas......don't buy them & then you can't drink them...hehe