Weird. I don't think there is any sugar in soda cans, but who knows what they put into the plastic bottles. They are clear like sugar, so it makes sense...
I just also left soda after knowing the fact that they wipe out calcium and other essentials from human body. Moreover, the bottles contains high level of sugar.
I came across a story about a girl who was addicted to soda bottles and soon she went into a situation that she couldn't even walk and then moved onto wheel chair. The doctor asked about her diet from her family which they told him including soda bottles. The doctor advised the girl to leave bottles as soon as possible. She left that and recovered in a couple of days.
I havent drank pop in I dont even know how long. Probably 2 years. I dont miss it at all. A few weeks ago I bought one of those 99 cent cans of iced tea / lemonade and it was so sweet I had to mix it with water. The resulting mix probably had 20 calories per cup. Anything more than that is too sweet. You have to cut sugar out of your diet completely. In order to do that, you have to view it as a poison or a toxin. It's really not far from the truth. The same is actually true for all carbs. The human body requires exactly zero carbs.
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AFAIK:
Carbohydrates are a useful element in one's diet because they're basically a slow-release source of energy, which is useful for a working day. The alternative would involve sugar highs and crashes, and would probably do very odd things to one's appetite at the very least.
IMO:
The digestive system, just like most other organs in the body, needs a workout in order to stay in good working order. Carbs and other complex structures are harder work to break down and absorb necessary nutrients and liquids, providing the workout. I would suspect that anyone on a permanent theoretical liquid diet with all the nutrients that the rest of the body needs would lose the ability to eat anything remotely complex without first being reconditioned to it like a baby needs to be; it's just asking for multiplying food intolerances and bacterial infections due to a gut full of millions of types of bacteria with nothing to do and nothing to help maintain a balance. Just about any biological system needs variation to stay in peak condition.
so it's been about 6 months or so of not drinking soda (with the occasional relapse every 2 months or so of having a soda and then feeling sick afterward from the system shock). Not crediting lack of soda exclusively (as I've been working out twice daily with mostly cardio stuff), but thus far have lost around 15 lbs (from 218ish down to 203 yesterday).
And I'm no doctor, but I believe carbs are needed to support brain functions.
The body has a mechanism -- gluconeogenesis -- for creating the small amount of glucose needed even when carbs aren't present.
That's interesting. I thought that was always the knock on Atkins 'diets'. I had the most success with that dropping 80 pounds and keeping most of it off. But then I listened to 'you need carbs' to sustain brain function talk that went around.
What countries have banned sugar?I like to drink Crystal Light Lemonade and Green tea. Plus plenty of water.
Sugar is addictive. Especially HFCS. Long term effects are devastating. Why do you think countries have banned it? They know how harmful it can be on the body. It's all habitual. Change the way you view drinking soda. Make it so unpleasant that you never want to touch it again.
What countries have banned sugar?
Ah, ignorance.Not sugar but HFCS. Europe is an example.
It's not banned but restricted. It's not used as often in Asia as well. I know in South Korea it's not used as much as America.
Orange juice must also be "devastating."Ah, ignorance.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Fructose is sugar. Comes from fruits. Corn is a fruit.
There’s really no difference between the fructose you get from corn and the fructose you get from any other fruit.
We just have a surplus of cheap fructose (perhaps largely due to government corn subsidies) – enough to replace the sucrose beet/cane sugar we used to use.
People just think “high fructose corn syrup” sounds like a scary chemical and they demonize it.
The fact is, we generally have too much sugar and any kind is bad for us.
Orange juice must also be "devastating."
It's typical to add sugar on top of the natural sugar to things like orange juice as well.I don't know about devastating, but I don't see a material difference between a glass of orange juice and a can of non-diet soda. You probably shouldn't have either one honestly.
Ah, ignorance.
"There’s really no difference between the fructose you get from corn and the fructose you get from any other fruit."
LOL! When was honey the standard sweetener for sodas? Anti corn syrup fearmongerers complain that “high fructose corn syrup” has largely replaced “sugar” on the ingredients list for most consumer food products. Well get this: “Sugar” has always meant “beet/cane sugar” — which is FAR more processed / refined than corn syrup. The more you know...There is a difference, for example if you would swallow a full spoon of raw honey, you would get;
"All of the B-complex, A, C, D, E, and K, minerals and trace elements: magnesium, sulfur, phosphorus, iron, calcium, chlorine, potassium, iodine, sodium, copper, and manganese. The live enzyme content of honey is one of the highest of all foods. Honey also contains hormones, and antimicrobial and antibacterial factors."
while if you swallowed a fullspoon of HFCS you would not get anything else but pure refined chemical sugar.
oh yes i forgot the context of sodas, which i don't understand why people still drink that stuff.