Comments on: You Are What You … Drink?

By: Hiram at Balance-Your-Health.com

Hiram at Balance-Your-Health.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:21:16 +0000

For anyone that wants to lose weight, one of the best things you can do is to cut out soft drinks — even if you only drink “diet” soda. First of all, non-diet soft drinks contain huge amounts of sugar (or high-fructose corn syrup) — a source of “empty” calories.

Second, if you usually have a soft drink (or two) with your meal, then ALL soft drinks, even the diet ones, tend to make you eat more because of their flavor and fizz (the carbonation).

Third, the diet soft drinks add artificial sweeteners and other chemicals that doesn’t support a healthy lifestyle.

Last, ALL carbonated soft drinks get their “fizz” from carbon dioxide (CO2). The CO2 in a soft drink also forms carbonic acid – something else that doesn’t support a healthy lifestyle.

So in summary, it’s pretty plain — no matter how you slice it, drinking soft drinks is just not part of a healthy lifestyle.

Hiram

By: andrik

andrik — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:09:08 +0000

Not surprise me! In my post about “Things you must reduce in your meal” one of in my top list is sugar. As we know, soft drink contains high volume of sugar especially coke. Coke is one of soft drinks that contains high volume of sugar. And even though sugar does not cause diabetics but sugar bed for diabetes. However not all soft drink can affects your health. 100 plus for example can give you additional energy when Malaria is attacking you.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:04:06 +0000

OK, no more cokes for my family!

Bev

By: Randy C

Randy C — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:20:02 +0000

I’m surprised that so many calories in our diet comes from cokes. But then, every time we eat out, they just keep filling the glass (which is quart sized to begin with). I guess recoginizing a problem exists is the first step towards fixing it.

Randy

By: Beatrice

Beatrice — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:56:23 +0000

One article I came across said we get 14% of calories from soft drinks. It’s a little higher than your figure but still in the same ballpark. Either way, it’s a significant amount of empty calories that provide little nutritional value.

I also think that the substitution of “high fructose corn syrup” for the traditional cane sugar has helped create the weight problem most Americans have. In fact if you look, you’ll find corn syrup in just about everything. It’s become a standard sweetener pretty much putting the cane sugar companies out of business.

I really don’t understand why food producers feel the need to “doctor” Mother Nature’s products. I just know that it usually translates into increasing weight and health problems.

By: Joe Johnston

Joe Johnston — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:19:16 +0000

OK, I finally get it. No more cokes for me either. — jj

By: Ricky

Ricky — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:17:28 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me. My neighbor downs around 2 sixpacks of coke per day. He’s huge! Of course, he’s also got health problems and is diabetic. Go figure!

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:15:59 +0000

That’s an amazing statistic. I had no idea that a coke contributes so many calories. My family and I are making some immediate changes!

Thanks for the info – Sue