If you're still drinking diet soda.... STOP.....
UM.... REALLY... It's not 1992 anymore, when you used to stop at the 7/11 on your way to work and re-fill your HUGE BIG GULP with Diet Coke at the fountain drink station. Ya, the re-usable one you bought to save a little cash. That one that was soooo big it wouldn't fit in your drink holder!
Weather you still pick up a 6 pack of coke every day, run in and grab a monster energy drink, or DO THE DEW, it's all the same to your body! Just because it says its calorie free, DOES NOT MEAN IT CAN'T MAKE YOU FAT. (this go's for food too, but that's for another post!)
PS The average adult human’s stomach can hold comfortably about 32 ounces at any given time (excepting we Americans who, apparently can hold about 138 times that amount despite science’s official averages). The Double Big Gulp from 7/11 holds about 64 ounces of soda or Slurpee.
SO Besides diet soda going out of fashion in the 90's,.... you may still need a few more reasons to quit!!!! LOL! Here ya go!
1. Diet soda & Calorie free energy drinks contain Artificial sweeteners, which have more intense flavor than real sugar, so over time products like diet soda dull our senses to naturally sweet foods like fruit. When full grown adults tell me they do not like many fruits and veggies, first, it's sad.... You cannot be healthy without them, and second, It's because you're used to eating artificial things. Stop with the fake, and re-learn how to LOVE REAL FOOD!
artificial sweeteners confuse our bodies and palates. Our bodies taste something sweet and believe it is going to be getting some calories, but when it doesn't it craves what it was expecting and leads us to over eat or consume those wanted calories from other sources.
Even more troubling, these sugar stand-ins have been shown to have the same effect on your body as sugar. "Artificial sweeteners trigger insulin, which sends your body into fat storage mode and leads to weight gain!!!!!!
2. You're FAKE DRINK HABIT is giving you Diabetes. Drinking one diet soda a day was associated with a 36% increased risk of metabolic syndrome and diabetes in a University of Minnesota study. Metabolic syndrome describes a cluster of conditions (including high blood pressure, elevated glucose levels, raised cholesterol, and large waist circumference) that put people at high risk for heart disease,stroke, and diabetes,
3. It's causing you to have Headaches! Early studies on aspartame and anecdotal evidence suggests that this artificial sweetener may trigger headaches in some people. "I have several clients who used to suffer from migraines and pinpointed their cause to diet soda
4. You're bones are getting weaker! Women over 60 are already at a greater risk for osteoporosis than men, and Tufts University researchers found that drinking soda, including diet soda, compounds the problem. They discovered that female cola drinkers had nearly 4% lower bone mineral density in their hips than women who didn't drink soda. The research even controlled for the participants' calcium and vitamin D intake. Additionally, a 2006 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that cola intake (all kinds, not just diet) was associated with low bone-mineral density in women.
5. It's hurting your hart! Just one diet soft drink a day could boost your risk of having a vascular event such as stroke, heart attack, or vascular death, according to researchers from the University of Miami and Columbia University. Their study found that diet soda devotees were 43% more likely to have experienced a vascular event than those who drank none.
6. Carbonation makes your body hold onto toxins! Kidneys flush the body's toxins to help it run more efficiently. Because of this, drinking many fluids, specifically water, is extremely important to all parts of the body. Kidneys help clean the body's fluids and blood and ensure the body's pH remains balanced. Carbonated water does not provide the same benefits of flat water.
Regular water helps the kidneys flush the body of toxins and other excess materials, but carbonated water can complicate the kidney's processes. Carbonated water adds carbon dioxide to the body, which is a gas that the body is constantly trying to remove. Putting carbon dioxide in the body can complicate your bodily functions, since the only place that CO2 is used is in the respiratory process.
The carbon dioxide in carbonated water turns the water much more acidic than regular water. This impacts the kidney's job, because adding acid to the kidneys make the pH level of the body lower, which hurts the body's attempts to balance pH. Flat water is not acidic and therefore does not put any pressure on the kidneys.
Drinking only carbonated water can be very dangerous, as it can prevent kidneys from eliminating wastes. Drinking about eight, 8-oz. glasses of flat, regular water every day, is recommended for keeping your body working properly.
Do I really have to say it!!!??? STOP! NOW!
For the record, IF you must have caffeine to get through the day, there are healthier ways to get it. If you just need something to sip on .... sip cucumber, lemon infused water and feel like you're at the spa all day long!!!!
-xoxo
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