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09/07/09
I'm definately addicted to caffeine.
09/06/09
FYI: Make sure you take the right type of supplements. I believe that Calcium requires either Vit. C or Magnesium in order to be absorbed. Ask a pharmacist, preferably at a holistic pharmacy. Or try Wholefoods, where the supplements staff tends to be knowledgable.
Of course, cutting back on caffeine helps a lot, too. :)
09/06/09
I'm now getting into the pure cane sugar sodas like Dublin Dr. Pepper and Mexican Coke. Their rarity at stores is stopping my addiction to them.
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Also, cans are far, far superior to bottles.
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my dad is a dentist, so I grew up in a fairly low-sugar household. It wasn't demonised, but fruit juice was always diluted, and soft drink, if we had it, was a treat and always something sour like lemon squash or apple-flavoured mineral water.
The only time I ever got to try Coke or the like as a kid was at other kids' birthday parties, and let me tell you, you could not PAY me to drink that stuff. Apart from being insanely sweet, there was just something about the flavour that seemed off.
I tried some again recently when I had an upset stomach, and realised part of what was putting me off was that I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to taste like. So tell me, Coke-drinkers - is coke supposed to taste like anything specific? I mean, found in nature? I always imagined that since it was brown, it would taste a little chocolatey or a little like liquorice, but it just tastes like... I don't know. Is part of the appeal that it doesn't taste like anything else, or am I missing the really obvious flavour that it is supposed to evoke?
09/07/09
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09/05/09
"Symptoms may include chest pain, palpitations, headache, altered mental status such as severe anxiety due to hypoxia decreased visual acuity, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, altered appetite (either loss of or increased) and weight loss (longer term), muscle weakness and bone pains."
Longstanding acidosis will lead to osteoporosis. You can also put yourself at risk for cardiac problems if you are susceptible to them, as well as suffer neurological (lethargy, stupor, coma, seizures) effects. But that is in severe cases of acidosis, and you'd have to be like doing nothing but drinking soda and like lemonade all the time to do that. You'd just wear down your kidneys.
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But I see some people in the comments talking about 2 or 3 cans a day as an addiction. That really doesn't sound like an addiction to me. Lots of people have 2 or 3 glasses of wine a night or 2 or 3 cups of coffee a day.
09/05/09
I've never drunk the stuff much, but I have a suggestion if you want to get off it - seltzer water. It's fizzy, so you get the soda-feeling, but it's just carbonated water, so no dodgy chemicals. Unless anyone knows anything that's bad about the carbonating process?
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A small amount of methanol is also produced when aspartame is broken down. Note: trace amounts of methanol are also found in many other foods.
Methanol is metabolized into formaldehyde, which is metabolized into formic acid. Formic acid is then metabolized into carbon dioxide and water.
Small amounts of methanol are harmless. Large amounts can cause formic acid to build up in the body and cause blindness and even death. However, the average person would need to drink 6-60 mL of pure methanol to have a problem. Way more than you're every going to get from soda.
09/05/09
Helps absorb alcohol into the bloodstream!
Some downs, some ups, I guess!
I remember hearing something on NPR about how the CO2 that's put into our fizzy drinks is often a waste byproduct from other industrial processes. I don't feel too good about that, but I love my seltzer. And I couldn't find anything during a quick google search to substantiate my memory.
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