Addicted to Soda!

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  • PB67
    PB67 Posts: 376
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    I have given up soda before and seem to always return. Unfortunately, if you are addicted, the only way to stop is cold turkey. The side affects will disappear in a few days. Wish I had better news for you, but just stop. When I get home to stay for a few weeks, I will join you.

    Now for the person who asked about aspartame. Some people are very affected by aspartame, it can be especially harmful to anyone with an auto-immue desease. I have given up aspartame, I have Lupus. My joints were almost immediately less painful, so much so that I brought the article I had read to my Doctor to read. My sister in law has MS and was told years ago to give up aspartame by her Doctor. There are several published papers on aspartame, google it. It is not good stuff.

    I love people who make unsubstantiated claims and then say "Google it"

    OK, sparky, I did a search on Google Scholar and came up with this:

    http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=aspartame+safety&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0,38&as_ylo=&as_vis=0



    "The safety testing of aspartame has gone well beyond that required to evaluate the safety of a food additive. When all the research on aspartame, including evaluations in both the premarketing and postmarketing periods, is examined as a whole, it is clear that aspartame is safe, and there are no unresolved questions regarding its safety under conditions of intended use."

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230002915424

    "These results further document the safety of the long-term consumption of aspartame at doses equivalent to the amount of aspartame in approximately 10 L of beverage per day."

    http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/149/10/2318

    "The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener."

    http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408440701516184


    KTHXBYE.
  • slimothy89
    slimothy89 Posts: 61
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    Soda doesn't help in weight loss. So you will see that you have to stp it!

    We don't have to only eat/drink things that help our weight loss. What about taste?
    MY HUSBANDS DAD DRUNK 3-5 COKES A DAY. HE IS NOW IN NEED OF A NEW LIVER, SUFFERING FROM CIRROSIS.

    Do you have any proof that the coke was the reason? Correlation does not equal causality, remember that.

    I wouldn't have said it if I didn't have proof. He's 97% sure, nd the doctors are 100%. They didn't even make him stop drinking it at first cause they wanted a close look at his diet. They couldnt figure out what else it could be, and made that correlation. Thank you.

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