Stop drinking soda (including diet soda)

Please please please stop drinking all kinds of sodas or diet sodas or
any beverages made by the soda companies. Buying these poisonous
substances is not only bad for your health, but feeds the profit of the
soda companies. Nobody should fund a company that makes products
promoting disease. Please tell all your friends to join the war on soda.

"Andrew" wrote in message
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Please please please stop drinking all kinds of sodas or diet sodas or
any beverages made by the soda companies. Buying these poisonous
substances is not only bad for your health, but feeds the profit of the
soda companies. Nobody should fund a company that makes products
promoting disease. Please tell all your friends to join the war on soda.

Nothing wrong with a company producing a product wanted by the public from
making a profit. I provide services wanted by the public, and this lets me
pay my bills and enables me to keep offering my services.

I no longer drink any kind of soda, and never drank a lot. Used to like a
root beer (AKA Snoopy) before a training flight, but that was about it.

Many, if not most people can drink soda daily and not suffer a weight gain
or other ill effects. For those who can't, they should avoid them. No
reason to blame the manufacturers for people who suffer consequences but
keep drinking them anyway.

It's not the weight gain I'm concerned about. That can be the least of
the problems. But the main problem is, sugar causes nutritional losses,
such as loss of calcium and B vitamins needed to assemlate the sugar.
Besides there's never much a need to drink soda - it does not fill you
up nor satisfy your appetite.

"Andrew" wrote in message
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Please please please stop drinking all kinds of sodas or diet sodas or
any beverages made by the soda companies. Buying these poisonous
substances is not only bad for your health, but feeds the profit of the
soda companies. Nobody should fund a company that makes products
promoting disease. Please tell all your friends to join the war on soda.


I'll try taking you up on the challenge. I just discovered I need to
eliminate or burn about 710 calories per day, and suprisingly found myself
drinking about 600 or 700 calories a day merely in Dr. Pepper. I'm pouring
the rest of this 2 liter out.

-Jeff

Jeff P wrote:
I'll try taking you up on the challenge. I just discovered I need to
eliminate or burn about 710 calories per day, and suprisingly found myself
drinking about 600 or 700 calories a day merely in Dr. Pepper. I'm pouring
the rest of this 2 liter out.


Just curious, but how could it have been surprising to you?

Truss me, it's very easy to underestimate the calories in soda. I had a
terrible soda drinking problem when I was 15 or 16, drinking maybe
1,500-2,000 calories in soda everyday, and back then I had no idea it
was making me fat!

"Andrew" wrote in message
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Truss me, it's very easy to underestimate the calories in soda. I had a
terrible soda drinking problem when I was 15 or 16, drinking maybe
1,500-2,000 calories in soda everyday, and back then I had no idea it
was making me fat!


Indeed, I have been a long time pop addict and am just now making my first
attempt to go on a diet or start an exercise program. So, I never really
gave it any thought before.

Actually the only thought I gave to diet pop was that it tasted bad, and it
absolutely cracked me up whenever I would be in line at McDonalds and the
supersized lady in front of me would order 3 supersized double quarter
pounder value meals for herself with a "diet coke". LOL

-Jeff

"Andrew" wrote in message
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It's not the weight gain I'm concerned about. That can be the least of
the problems. But the main problem is, sugar causes nutritional losses,
such as loss of calcium and B vitamins needed to assemlate the sugar.

Don't know that there's any scientific basis for this but even if it was
true, diet sodas are sugar-free

Besides there's never much a need to drink soda - it does not fill you
up nor satisfy your appetite.

It quenches your thirst and tastes good. Diet sodas have no sugar and
virtually no calories.

"Andrew" wrote in message
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Please please please stop drinking all kinds of sodas or diet sodas or
any beverages made by the soda companies. Buying these poisonous
substances is not only bad for your health, but feeds the profit of the
soda companies. Nobody should fund a company that makes products
promoting disease.

There's no disease that can be directly connected to drinking soda. Diet
soda has no sugar which would be the main issue with the regular kind.

Please tell all your friends to join the war on soda.

We're all grown ups here (although you seem to be the exception). We're
trying to lose weight here, not start a worldwide boycott of soda companies.
You may have more luck in one of the anti-capitalism groups.

I drink diet soda because I really dislike water. While I was losing my
weight, an important part of the diet was drinking a lot of fluids, and
trying to choke down the 8-10 glasses of plain water a day was a bit
much (like, BLEH!!!). I tried to learn to like plain water, but man, it
was a tough slog. However, with all the diet pops out there (plus the
flavoured sparkling waters that are really just a variation on
pop/soda), I could manage it. I can't drink too many with aspartame
though - it gives me a headache if I have more than a couple in quick
succession.

Mary G.
Was 195, now hovering around 130.