When I was a kid, I just loved soda. I could not get enough of it. In fact, eventually, I was drinking up to 2 cases of this great tasting liquid candy a week. Yes, I said 2 cases a week. Back then, I could eat and drink anything and not gain a pound! Oh, and yes, that is correct, soft-drinks are nothing more than liquid candy. Water with lots of additives, sugars, and who knows what else all bottled or canned up for those who can’t wait for the next drop.
I just heard of a new study that shows that people who drink diet soft drinks don’t lose weight. In fact, they gain weight. This was from a 8 year study conducted by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
The chart below shows the percentages of risk for becoming overweight:
I’ve been on a downward progression with drinking soft-drinks and reading about this only makes me want to dive further downward. As far as the above chart, I probably fall somewhere on the first or second line for either category. Though, I don’t drink as much diet soda as compared to regular soda. Actually, since I’ve been with Herbalife, I’ve been drinking far less soda and more Liftoff and other “healthy” drinks.
Herbalife offers some great alternatives to soft drinks:
Liftoff Energy Drink
H3O Fitness Drink
Wild Berry and Mango Protein drinks
I’ve tried all but the Wild Berry and they are great!
If taste is the only driver for drinking your favorate soft-drink, then why not compromise and drink something that will work for you and not against you. My new thought with sodas is as follows:
Soft-drinks are like an enemy in hiding. In some cases you don’t know what is happening until it’s to late.
Love your post. I have been thinking about the same thing lately, and just wrote a post that focused on how drinking anything with calories is basically a bad addition to any diet (juice, milk, soda, etc.) because we are incapable of getting a sense of “fullness” from liquids. (Why We Should All Drink Less Water and More Coffee http://themarquis0.wordpress.com/ )
Your point about diet sodas is a good one — I have heard that one thing that may cause people who drink diet sodas to gain weight is that our tastebuds interpret what we are drinking as sweet even if our bodies don’t process the chemicals as calories. And sweet tastes basically make us have lots of cravings and eat more calories.
Personally, I ended up switching to carbonated water (plain or lemon, lime, etc.) They have the pleasant fizziness of soda but they are completely neutral to the body.
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Everything you eat or drink that has been put through a manufacturing process has ingredients. The
ingredients in the product will determine what effect that product will have on your health and body. I
challenge you to take any product that you currently drink and look at the ingredients. Start with the
ingredients that you cannot understand or pronounce and do an Internet search on that ingredient. You
may be surprised to learn that many of the unhealthy side effects of these ingredients are the same as
the health issues you are struggling with. I was shocked when I discovered this connection. I prefer to
drink something that has cancer-fighting ingredients not cancer-causing ingredients.
Thanks Rodney for your comment! I never considered this and I must agree!
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