How's your soda intake?

[J4MIE]

I bought a jar of stevia probably about 6 months ago, had a couple of tea spoons in a cup of tea, and promptly poured it down the sink.

Horrid stuff

[555-04Q2]

I've been guilty of too much soda at times. I'm trying to completely stop until I get things back to reasonable.

As for the regular vs diet stuff, it all depends on who you believe and what influences your body more. What's right for me might not work for you. I personally think anything to excess in your diet probably isn't a good thing. But at the same token I often research those things that some will tell you are grossly evil. Often the tests show that in rats excess doses for an extended period might cause some health issues.

I'll try to dig the link up, but I recall where a person did the math to reflect how absurd some of the testing was. He found that in one substance a 200 lb human would have to ingest right about 5 lbs a day, every day, for a period of months to duplicate the findings on rats. What substance does a normal person eat 5 lbs of in a day?

My uncle used to be a big wig at the Coca Cola Group and he once told me years ago, "stay away from out diet stuff". Nuff said!

[zako85]

Besides alcohol, I mostly drink plain water, coffee, tea sweet and hot, mineral water, or juice (pure, not from concentrate). I drink soda maybe once a month at best, when the alternatives are not very good. I think pretty much anything consumed in excess is bad for you, even water, so you should worry too much about any specific drink you occasionally have. However, I decided a long time ago that the costs of drinking soda severely outweigh the benefits and since there are so many good alternatives, I just quit drinking it. It wasn't very hard considering the US cola tastes a lot worse than what I used to drink, thanks to the corn syrup sweetener instead of fruit or cane (regular) sugar in it.

[Garry Walker]

No one is advocating a ban on soda pop, merely limiting its accessibility.

Why? People have the right to damage their health if they wish. Should we perhaps start limiting everything that can be bad for one's health?

[Big Ben]

People who are trying to lose weight by drinking diet coke are really funny people. I think many of them are also the people who buy "the secret to losing weight while eating as much as you want" kind of books.

[Rudy Tamasz]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned root beer. That's my absolute fav in the world of sodas but I only get to drink it in the States. It's not available on this side of the pond.

I drink soda occasionally and do that exactly because it contains a lot of sugar. When I'm exhausted after a day in the office, a bit of quickly digestible carbohydrates is what's gonna put me right. Then it's either alcohol in beer or sugar in soda. Mostly soda for a family guy.

[Mark]

People who are trying to lose weight by drinking diet coke are really funny people. I think many of them are also the people who buy "the secret to losing weight while eating as much as you want" kind of books.

Why what's amusing? I like Pepsi and I don't see any need to have extra sugar so I drink Pepsi Max.

[gadjo_dilo]

Good God.....Now I remember the days when we couldn't find these kind of sodas and made elder flowers juice at home. It was so tasty and easy to prepare. If I weren't the lazy a*** I am today, I would still make this healthy refreshing drink.

[Robinho]

People should have the right to damage their health. They should not have the right to have that damage fixed for free when they have knowingly damaged it. In that case why can you get insurance and then smoke, drink and eat and drink fatty and sugary foods.

If people want to drink soda in vast quantities they will, regardless of the size of cups available, but there should be some common sense surrounding sale of harmful things. Cigarettes are taxed highly, but still available. Why not do the same for these things, if you still want them, buy them in smaller less harmful quantities

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[ioan]

I prefer mineral water or tap water.