jordan spizike The Skinny On Soda

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You needn’t go further than the local grocery store to realize that an entire isle is dedicated to selling and keeping us hooked on this popular beverage we call soda or pop. Decades after its creation, soda companies continue to create new marketing campaigns to sell us more and more of it. Soda, including diet soda, is one of the major culprits contributing to obesity. This is due to the high fructose corn syrup found in soda as well as the artificial sweeteners in diet soda. The effects of high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS, are explored in further detail in another article.
Back to soda: a single 12 ounce can has as much as 13 tablespoons of sugar. Now, if you stood over a glass of carbonated water and put 13 teaspoons of sugar in it, I’d doubt you’d drink it. And yet this is what average Americans do, consuming as much as fifty-six gallons of year. Compare this to the 23 gallons the average American consumes, according to Census Bureau statistics. I can’t tell you how many people I know who say that they only drink diet soda and believe that it’s actually good for them!
Here’s a study that will surely open a few sweet-drink loving, soda consumers eyes. Researchers from Purdue University found that when rats were given sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages for a period of days, they devoured the sweet cake-like substance that was later presented to them.
Rats which drank water instead of diet soda ignored the food.
When we consume nutrient and calorie empty foods that contain sugar and that are also artificially sweetened, the body will search for more sugar and more calories.
A Texas study, resulting from 26 years of patient data, revealed that people who drink diet soft drinks tend to be more overweight. For the participants who drank diet soda, they found a correspondingly higher risk of obesity. In this study, it seemed that diet soda fared much worse than regular soda. Sweet is a taste we develop by habit. Remember, once the rats were inundated with sugar and artificially sweetened liquids, they could no longer regulate their calorie intake. It’s the same for us. The intense taste of sweet should be a signal for us to stop eating sugar, but when we overload the system with a high sugar or high carbohydrate diet, the signal doesn’t work anymore.
Why Diet Soda Can Make You Fatter
Here’s a study that parents will love. You might not be as conscious as soda’s effects on yourself as much as you probably see its effect on your kids. But consider that Aspartame, found in diet soda, is an excitotoxin that crosses the blood brain barrier. If you’re a diet soda drinker, take note.
In a nutshell, the Boston study revealed found that for those children who drank soda in schools, their teachers ranked their behavior on the days that they drank it. There was a 435 percent increase in bad behavior on soda days.
Beyond Aspartame found in soda, you will also find something called phosphoric acid in the ingredients. I challenge you to research this chemical and its effects on your body. I challenge you to do your own due diligence. Remember, you’re becoming an educated consumer, taking charge of your health and weight. This is just these consumers do.
Soda consumption is truly an addiction. We get used to the sweet taste, for its pick-me up-sugar blast (and even caffeine effect). I can’t stress how powerful soda addiction is, but if you’ve got one [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you will admit it rivals the habit of drinking coffee―which is no easy task to break.
As I mentioned earlier, with diet soda, the Aspartame goes through the blood brain barrier, creating excitatory chemistry in the brain, which you can also become addicted to. Day in and day out, as you consume these excitotoxins and crash and burn, you simply keep craving another bottle of soda or more sweet food. The cycle goes on and on.
People are on the ‘diet this and diet that” rollercoaster and they can’t figure out why. They haven’t got a clue that a huge
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You can't get calcium from pop. You have all that sugar in pop. Yes, whole milk does have fat that pop does not.Sorry, my firgde has skim milk for me and diet soda for my husband, so can't do a comparrison with whole and reg. soda.Diet Coke has 40 mg. of sodium, but no nutritional value and 45 mg of caffene.Skim milk has no fat, 5 mg cholest., 125mg. sodium, 380 mg. potassium, 13 g. carbs, 12 g sugar, 8 g protein. For nutrition it has 10% Vit. A, Vit. C 2 %, 30% Calcium, 25% Vit. D.My drinks of choice are skim milk, juice and water which are all better for you.