CNN.Com: Study: Soda linked to diabetes in women
When I saw this, I was thinking “I could so have told them this!” I lived on Pepsi in college and gained probably 50 lbs over those three years. I gave up soda for Lent two years in a row in seminary and on Jon’s internship and felt so much better. (I also lost enough weight for my wedding dress to be loose on me.)
I think people really don’t calculate the amount of sugar they consume in beverage form. Three cans of Coke a day is about 450 calories — the amount in a modest meal and all of it is sugar. Another problem: the sugar we put in our coffee and tea. Two spoons of sugar goes a long way. (And yes, I know that this is the pot calling the kettle black because when I get a latté, I get a few shots of vanilla in it.)
I made the switch to diet soda at the beginning of the year, just because the amount of sugar I consumed through regular soda was severely damaging my teeth. I’m incredibly glad I’ve made the switch now; I’m really looking into a lot of sugar-free alternatives to both foods and drinks. I’ve been drinking a lot more water too, which also has made me feel much better.
I’ve been trying to cut back on my soda intake, though it’s been really difficult and I haven’t been very successful at all. I can seriously drink about four litres of Coke in a day if you let me. I can’t stand the taste of diet soda and I’m not very keen on most of the sugar alternatives that are in diet soda, so I either keep drinking or I quite cold turkey.
Right now, there’s no soda in the house and I’m struggling to keep myself from getting in the car and driving up to the store to buy a bottle of Coke to get rid of my caffiene withdrawl headache. >.<
very true. I don’t drink diet sodas because aspartame tates awful to me – and splenda makes me itch. the new sodas, like C2 and Pepsi Edge, I can drink… I can’t taste the “fake” sugar in them. so I’ve started drinking those. mainly C2 because I really don’t like Pepsi. 🙂 Mike and I are trying to watch our intake of sugars and other things. we’re not screaming about low carbs or anything, but we’re just trying to take all things in moderation, which is how a good diet should work, I think.
i don’t add any sweetener to my coffee anymore – just the sugar in the creamer. still probably too much, but at least it’s not covered in sugar or sweet-n-low. and i enjoy it better, the taste of the coffee coming thru a little more.
what sucks about that is asparatame (or however you spell it) is now considered fairly dangerous itself. we can’t win!!!
i used to not drink soda, but lately i’ve been drinking about a can every three weeks. ugh. too much in my opinion! thankfully, i don’t like sweetener in my tea. i gave up all beverages except milk, juice, and water for lent this year and have hardly gone back to my iced mochas at starbucks.
Splenda
I don’t know about Pepsi Edge, but I’m pretty sure C2 doesn’t use artifical sweetners, it just has about half the sugar that normal Coke does. I’ve tried drinking C2 but hated it more than Diet Coke. I guess there’s just no subsititute for all the sugar for me. :-/
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I think it has aspartame in it, but I could be wrong – I’ll check the can next time I have one 🙂 I thought it was half-and-half, real stuff and fake stuff.
Funny, I had the same reaction — a loud dUH sound — I’ve never been a big fan of colas though I’ll admit to having consumed my share of diet beverages. Even then, I think they too can make ya fat. For the past two years, nothing but orange flavored seltzer water, no calories but all the fizz.
That and along with walking three times a day and eating once I’m down from 320 to 235 … just 35 more to go … no thanks to CocaCola and Pepsi!
Just checked C2 the other day and, in Canada at least, aspartame is the #1 ingredient. Sorry to burst the bubble.
By the way Jen, doesn’t it feel kind of cool to discover that your wedding dress is too loose! My only regret is that now I can’t vacuum my house in my dress with heels and pearls, for this was to be how I would wear it more than once!
What makes aspartame dangerous? Then again, I think too much of anything can have a negative effect on a person’s health.
I barely ever drink pop… usually the most I drink is gingerale at Christmas mixed with cranberry juice (a family tradition favourite), the rest of the year I drink about less than a litre combined.
Aspartame, besides being a carcinogen, gives me a headache.
from what i’ve gathered, it’s chemically similar to MSG. by that i mean that it works in a similar way: by tricking your brain into thinking something tastes better than it really does. This website may help… http://www.sweetpoison.com/