w3 The Danger of Diet drinks
Hi, bloggers
There is a lot I could say about all of these artifical sweeteners and it’s not good. But I don’t expect you to take my word for it so I am including wed sites that you should look at and pass along to anyone you know who drinks diet soda.
I will tell you a little just to give you a little info. Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, saccharine, Splenda, ect….) have shown to lead to health complications. Research show it’s linked to several types of cancer. Aspartame is 10% methanol alcohol with used as a paint thinner. Most people drink diet pop to lose weight but in fact they actually gain weight and increase there chances of diabetes and obesity. Artifical Sweeteners are BIG business that pads someones pocket at the expense of peoples health. Unfortunately people in the industry are to often motivated by greed.
Please visit these sites:
Mercola.com more specific: www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/deadly_deception.htm
www.womentowomen.com/nutritionandweightloss/dietsoda.aspx
I hope and pray that the information I give you will help lead you and your family to better health.
Christie
Proverbs 20:17 Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with a mouth full of gravel.
womenwhoworship said,
January 24, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I would like to clarify Christie’s comment that most people “actually gain weight” when drinking diet soda. This is not necessarily true. Here is an excerpt from the second link:
“No expert is presuming that the diet sodas themselves are making people gain weight. But there does seem to be some connection, and what is being further explored is the idea that by offering our tastes buds something that seems sweet, and seems to signal other parts of our bodies that glucose sugars are on the way, we set ourselves up for cravings — to which we eventually and often unknowingly, give in. In other words, consuming artificial sweeteners that seem real just might be setting us up to eat more later on.”
Just wanted to clarify this…
Christie, any alternatives?
Sunshine
womenwhoworship said,
January 25, 2008 at 11:28 am
If you finished reading the content of the second website, there were recommendations in the section following the one you qouted from.
Options are weaning yourself off of the taste of sweet by mixing one or two ounces of fruit juice in a glass of sparkling mineral water. until you’re drinking the straight mineral water. This gives you “sweet” with bubbles! Sometimes I just want the bubbles. Stevia Leaf, is a good option also. The green leaf product is better than the white powder which is refined with solvents.
There were other reasons for quiting soft drinks and never starting children on them. Phosphoric acid is in all soft drinks. The second website offers an experiment you can do at home to experience the powerful effects of this acid. Place a nail in a glass of soda and watch it for one or two hours. Not days like we did as kids with a tooth but hours. The highly corrosive acid will do some serious damage in as little as two hours to an iron nail. On page 51 of Nourishing Traditions, it states that “phosphoric acid blocks absorbtion of calcium and magnesium in the intestines, thus contributing to fragile, easily fractured bones in children and osteoporosis in adults. Magnesium deficiency contributes to the impairment of the immune system, causing fatigue, high blood pressure and other ailments”. Phosphoric acid may also contribute to the formation of kidney stones.
I myself am soft drink free. I’m not bragging merely stating a fact because I have a long way to go. I’m working currently at reducing the amount of coffee I drink until I can go without. My plan will take a while because I really have an addiction to C-A-F-F-I-N-E, which I’m learning really messes with Adrenal Cortex Function, setting our bodies up for a roller coaster ride of adrenaline pumping ups and downs. If you have asthma, like I do, or other immune dysfunctions such as allergies and hay fever, they are exacerbated by a malfunctioning Adrenal Cortex.
My caffine reduction plan go goes like this, once a week I reduce the size of my coffe mug. I only drink one cup of coffee a day. My original mug was 20 ounces! I’m down to a 12 ounce mug. By the time you subtract the space for the cream, my coffee intake is about 10 ounces a day or roughly one and a quarter regular coffee cups. Next week it’s down to a 10 ounce mug. By the time I’m down to 4 ounces I think I’ll be able to go cold turkey. I may be cranky for a few days and have a headache but it won’t be as bad as stopping at the 20 ounce mug.
Cat
womenwhoworship said,
January 25, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Sunshine,
I believe you either got confused or misunderstood what I said. What I said was most people drink diet pop to lose weight but in fact they actually gain weight. I never said diet pop itself makes you gain weight.. You actually made the same point I was making that there is a connection to weight gain and diet pop its called “artifical sweetener”. You stated it well at the end of your comment eating artificial sweetener could be setting you up to eat more later, which =weight gain.
Here is some info I cut and pasted from mercola.com
The prevalence of obesity has reached epidemic proportions and many Americans are making efforts to side-step extra calories. They are turning to diet soft drinks — Diet Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and Sprite — as their beverage of choice.
But is this a wise health choice?
Perhaps not, for according to a study by researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio, middle-aged adults who drink diet soft drinks may be drastically increasing their risks of gaining weight later on
Diet Soda Discovery
The study monitored the weight and soda-drinking habits of more than 600 normal-weight patients aged 25-64. When researchers followed up on the patients some eight years later, they discovered:
Participants were 65 percent more likely to be overweight if they consumed one diet soda a day compared
Those who drank diet soda had a greater chance of becoming overweight than participants who drank regular soda.
Two or more low- or no-calorie soft drinks raised the odds of becoming obese or overweight even higher.
Those who drank diet soda had a greater chance of becoming overweight than participants who drank regular soda.
I just wanted to clear up any confusion. As far as alternatives I think water is a good one and its free. I realize water isn’t everyone’s favorite so I would recommend herbal or green tea.
Christie
womenwhoworship said,
January 27, 2008 at 10:33 am
If you like the taste of hard cider you might like Kombucha. I tried it for the first time yesterday. It has 30 calories per serving and provides the body with benificial intestinal flora.
Kombucha is produced using black tea, white sugar and a “mushroom” which is the culture. It is a fermented beverage that is sparkling in nature, if you like the bubbles soda pop provides. The amazing thing about the process is that when it is done, all of the caffine and most of the carbohydrates have been metabolized by the fermentation leaving very little in the way of sugar to raise blood sugar levels.
It is an item you might need to go slow on though. I did experience some unexpected intestinal symptoms after drinking a serving but until I try it a second time I’ll not know if it was the Kombucha, or something else. I’m not going to try it before church today.
Blessings, Cat