Giving up coke.. Will it really help that much?

[brashgal]

caffeine is not good for your bones??????

 

Lil Honey - Never heard this but I have read that it's the carbonation in soda that robs you of calcium...

[Outcast]

Soft drinks and caffeinated drinks are bad because people drink them instead of milk and other healthier beverages. There is so much sugar in soft drinks that they really contribute to weight gain.

 

One can on average contains 40 to 50g of sugar, which if consumed daily for a year could result in that person gaining 10 to 15 pounds. She advises doctors in the US to tell their overweight patients to cut down.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/health/202004.htm

 

A 12 oz can of soda can have 8-10 teaspoons of sugar in it. Contrast that with the couple of teaspoons you put in tea or coffee.

 

But what's really amazing is that diet soda may even be worse in terms of association with obesity

Overweight Risk Soars 41% With Each Daily Can of Diet Soft Drink

http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/107/108476.htm

[bicyclejunk]

man, i thought my average "2 Root Beers a Day", was

bad...And though it's not 5 or 6, it's still a lot of sugar

and calories...

 

It's true though, if you're not doing any exercise to cancel

all the bad calories out, you're going to gain weight, i can totally

see how you could gain. The Lattes and Frappicino's don't help either:o

[MrsD]

I drink allot of coke i love it!

[cranium]

That someone wrote a book doesn't mean he knows his butt from his backpack.

 

Same goes for Quackwatch. Everybody has an agenda.

 

With regard to products containing aspartame, this is an excerpt from emediawire -

 

Racketeering (Rico)Charges filed Against NutraSweet, Dr. Moser of NS, American Diabetes Assn and Monsanto

 

A RACKETEER INFLUENCED &CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS [RICO]complaint has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit charges the defendants with manufacturing and marketing a deadly neurotoxin unfit for human consumption, while they assured the pubic that aspartame (also known as NutraSweet/Equal) contaminated products are safe and healthful, even for children and pregnant women. Present Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is mentioned throughout the lawsuit.

 

As evidence, an explosive affidavit from a former translator for the G.D. Searle Co - the developer of aspartame - will be made public at a National Press Conference on Thursday, September 16 at 11:00 a.m. at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel, 1230 J Street, Sacramento, California 95814, phone (916) 447-1700.

 

For 16 years, the FDA denied approval of aspartame because of compelling evidence of its contributing to brain tumors and other serious disabilities. Donald Rumsfeld, present Secretary of Defense in the Bush Administration, left President Ford's administration as Chief of Staff to become the CEO of aspartame producer G D Searle Co. in 1981. Shortly after, Rumsfeld became the CEO, and the day after President Reagan took office, aspartame was quickly approved by FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes over the objections of the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry. Hayes had been recently appointed by the Reagan Administration. Shortly after aspartame's approval by the FDA, Hayes joined NutraSweet's public relations firm under a ten year contract at $1,000 a day.

Read more at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/9/emw159017.htm or just google aspartame and Rumsfeld.

[bab]

Enigma, 933KJL did you do it? How's it going? I haven't had any caffeine in 17 days, and I'm pretty much over the withdrawl.

 

I have never heard about the carbonation robbing your body of calcium. Hmmm... That's not good. My grandmother has terrible osteoporosis, and I didn't realize I could be making it worse! As of yesterday, I've cut all beverages except skim milk and water out of my diet.

[Sinfuldelight]

Oh you'll drop weight a little easier if you stop drinking coke. It's better to drink water or tea. The only time it may be decent to grab one coke for the day is if you're having a drop in your sugar. But if you can grab something else while out then grab it.