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Bridges said:
Yes it is, lol. I dont drink cokes out of the can, we have the big bottles that I just pour into a cup.

But coke is just bad for you, apple Juice is healthy.
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I guess it depends what kind of apple juice you get. It could be some apple juices have no nutritional value at all.
 
thedue said:
Alcohol here, that pop is just bad for you, lol.
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I'm with you Duey, fish do nasty things in water and pop is just plain bad for you, Glenlivet neat please
 
I think it is possible to find "no sugar added" to certain juice brands. You have to read the lables when shopping. As a diabetic I have to be careful so I really watch lables.
 
Dent said:
I guess it depends what kind of apple juice you get. It could be some apple juices have no nutritional value at all.
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This is 100% apple juice. No sugar added. So guess its just sugar from the red delicious apple. Lots of Vitamin C
 
I'm in the same boat, not overweight actually almost underweight, but eat badly, but fortuanately my family rarely buys soda. I love coke, and drink it whenever I can. I have made a concious decision to drink water when I go out to eat because of the refills. I'm sure if you tried, you could get it down to 1 day or less. Just stick with it and you'll thank yourself in a few years.
 
Dent said:
Haha thats confusing me.. No sugar added but 39g of sugar per bottle?
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As in no extra sugar added to help with the flavor. And its only 35g of sugar total lol The red delicious apples have 35g of sugar in them, just part of the apple, but no more sugar was added to it. Make sense?
 
Bridges said:
As in no extra sugar added to help with the flavor. And its only 35g of sugar total lol The red delicious apples have 35g of sugar in them, just part of the apple, but no more sugar was added to it. Make sense?
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Oh yes alright makes sense now.
 
I will drink diet Cherry Pepsi or Lipton Diet green tea.I know that artificial sweeteners are not good for you but I figure it has to be better than all the calories from sugar.If you need caffeine free pop ,try Caffeine free diet Coke.
 
I drink probably about a 6 pack of Diet Coke daily. I used to drink regular coke or Dr Pepper but the calories really weren't good for the waist line. The nice thing about Diet Coke is that once you get used to the flavor you are really unable to drink regular sodas or even the newer zero calorie sodas (ie, Coke Zero). They just taste too sweet and make your mouth feel like it is coated in sugar. Occasionally I will quit drinking sodas, get the caffeine withdrawal unless I'm drinking coffee, but I feel I am addicted to the fizz also. Soda water and seltzer help with the fizz addiction but soda water has a lot of sodium in it and seltzer just tastes bad unless you drop a wedge of lime or lemon in it. Watch out for some of the "zero" calorie sodas. If I remember correctly Nutra-sweet is just iodized sugar (or maybe that is the newer sweetener) and some people's bodies break it down just like sugar while other's don't.
 
Ahhh, pop. At one point I was up to 6 cans of Mt Dew at the office in 8 hours and then another 2 or 3 at home at night. Yeah, packed on the weight there. I actually can't do to diet pop as my dr and I determined a LOOOONG time ago that I must be allergic to artificial sweeteners as I get VIOLENTLY sick when I consume more than a few sips of anything with artificial sweeteners in them. Unfortunately, Mt Dew doesn't come with the splenda stuff in them for the "Zero" pop. I am now down to maybe a couple of cans a day, and help to curb the caffeine withdrawal with coffee in the morning. Eventually gonna cut it all out if I can, just like quitting smoking tho, takes much more will power than I apparently have at the current moment. Started trying to drink all natural juices that I can stand, like the Welch's 100% grape juice and Simply Orange orange juice.
 
c_ault said:
I drink probably about a 6 pack of Diet Coke daily. I used to drink regular coke or Dr Pepper but the calories really weren't good for the waist line. The nice thing about Diet Coke is that once you get used to the flavor you are really unable to drink regular sodas or even the newer zero calorie sodas (ie, Coke Zero). They just taste too sweet and make your mouth feel like it is coated in sugar. Occasionally I will quit drinking sodas, get the caffeine withdrawal unless I'm drinking coffee, but I feel I am addicted to the fizz also. Soda water and seltzer help with the fizz addiction but soda water has a lot of sodium in it and seltzer just tastes bad unless you drop a wedge of lime or lemon in it. Watch out for some of the "zero" calorie sodas. If I remember correctly Nutra-sweet is just iodized sugar (or maybe that is the newer sweetener) and some people's bodies break it down just like sugar while other's don't.
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store bought seltzer is high in sodium. I make my own in a seltzer bottle and it is sodium free. I go thru a whole bottle a day.
 
Haha, my Clue English teacher always has a diet coke. I bet he drinks 4 or 5 of those bottles a day. Recently he's moved on to pistachios, much better for you. But he still drinks the diet coke!
 
I'd been a coca-cola drinker for 20+ years. I probably drank a 6-pack a day, which is 72 oz. That's 9, 8 ounce servings. But, I never had a weight problem because I was pretty active. I'm 42 and now on Nexium (The Purple Pill) twice a day, which is double the normal prescribed dosage, plus a 150mg Zantac before bed, thanks to what coke's done to my stomach. I now have major GERD (Gastro Intestinal Reflux Disease) and used to pound down tums and rolaids like they were going outta style. When I saw the gastro specialist, he sent a video scope down my throat and I got to see first hand what stomach acid does to an esophagus....brutal scarring.

The greatness of Nexium allows me to eat regularly again. But, the downside is I've put on 20 pounds since I got on it, because now I can eat dinner without waking up in the middle of night with stomach acid trying to burn a hole in my throat. Before Nexium, I couldn't eat/drink after 7PM, or the Reflux would wake me up.

Did I scare you? I hope so. You don't want my stomach problems.

1. For calorie reduction, try the Coke Zero, Diet Coke and/or the other brands, like everyone else has said. If you don't like their taste you can try mixing regular coke with coke zero and work your way week-by-week from pure regular coke to pure coke zero.

2. To phase out the caffeine addiction try going to a soda that has less of it, like Dr Pepper, Sprite or Root Beer.

I recommend #2 first. Once you kick the caffeine addiction, you can then change from DP, Sprite or Root Beer to their respective diet version.

Don't switch to tea if caffeine addiction is your issue. It can have more caffeine in it than coke.

Caffeine Contents of Drinks

Good luck.
 
Thank you everybody for your answers. I plan to try alot of them and then if all else fails at first I can use staticline's #2 and drink sprite. To start at least. Thank you everybody, there are 3 cokes left in the fridge until grocery day, and that is when I begin!
 
staticline said:
I'd been a coca-cola drinker for 20+ years. I probably drank a 6-pack a day, which is 72 oz. That's 9, 8 ounce servings. But, I never had a weight problem because I was pretty active. I'm 42 and now on Nexium (The Purple Pill) twice a day, which is double the normal prescribed dosage, plus a 150mg Zantac before bed, thanks to what coke's done to my stomach. I now have major GERD (Gastro Intestinal Reflux Disease) and used to pound down tums and rolaids like they were going outta style. When I saw the gastro specialist, he sent a video scope down my throat and I got to see first hand what stomach acid does to an esophagus....brutal scarring.

The greatness of Nexium allows me to eat regularly again. But, the downside is I've put on 20 pounds since I got on it, because now I can eat dinner without waking up in the middle of night with stomach acid trying to burn a hole in my throat. Before Nexium, I couldn't eat/drink after 7PM, or the Reflux would wake me up.

Did I scare you? I hope so. You don't want my stomach problems.

1. For calorie reduction, try the Coke Zero, Diet Coke and/or the other brands, like everyone else has said. If you don't like their taste you can try mixing regular coke with coke zero and work your way week-by-week from pure regular coke to pure coke zero.

2. To phase out the caffeine addiction try going to a soda that has less of it, like Dr Pepper, Sprite or Root Beer.

I recommend #2 first. Once you kick the caffeine addiction, you can then change from DP, Sprite or Root Beer to their respective diet version.

Don't switch to tea if caffeine addiction is your issue. It can have more caffeine in it than coke.

Caffeine Contents of Drinks

Good luck.
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Wow, thats quite the eye opener right there. No telling what the cost of all those pills/dr. bills are either. Glad im not addicted.

Was that purely what the acid in the coke did though? So something like dr. pepper is way safer? I know the coke acid is bad but just seeing how much dr. pepper is "better" for you over coke.
 
Bridges said:
Wow, thats quite the eye opener right there. No telling what the cost of all those pills/dr. bills are either. Glad im not addicted.

Was that purely what the acid in the coke did though? So something like dr. pepper is way safer? I know the coke acid is bad but just seeing how much dr. pepper is "better" for you over coke.
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Actually, I just looked at that caffeine content link again and it says DP has more than coke. WOW.

Barq's Root Beer has about 1/2 of what coke does.
Sprite has 0 caffeine.



I've never seen acidity comparisons between colas. But, it's no so much that as it is the caffeine. There's something about caffeine, along with several other foods (listed below) that can cause Reflux.

Common triggers (from Mayo Clinic)
caffeine - cokes, tea, coffee
fatty foods - everything that tastes good
fried foods - fried chicken, french fries, anything from a state or county fair
alcohol
chocolate
mint
garlic
onion
jalapenos and related peppers
 
My office gives us unlimited apple juice, orange juice, coke, sprite, ginger ale, water, and coffee.
When I started here in September I was like SWEET! I drank probably 3 apple juices or 3 orange juices a day, and limited myself to 1 coke a week because I knew I didn't do enough physical activity to handle that sugar...
Well I noticed at night that my heart refused to slow down so I did an experiment. I phased out all the juice, and all the pop, and only had one cup of coffee a day with unlimited water.
Voila, problem solved.
I can't even stomach the apple or orange juice anymore because of the sugars.
 
Why is everything that taste so good so bad.....:confused2:
 
HoosierGolfer said:
Why is everything that taste so good so bad.....:confused2:
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This is my saying whenever I go somewhere:

"Fat is Flavour"

[have I mentioned I love pork belly? - ok back to the thread at hand]
 
I always say: Being alive is bad for your health.
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clam fist said:
store bought seltzer is high in sodium. I make my own in a seltzer bottle and it is sodium free. I go thru a whole bottle a day.
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Clam, are you sure you are getting is labeled seltzer water and not club soda? Seltzer water is sodium free, even the seltzer I buy when I'm in your neck of the woods. Club soda definitely has sodium in it but it isn't labeled seltzer water. I would kill for my own fizzer but then I would have to find a place for it too.
 
Found this today.

I doubt if your body's know much difference between Root Beer at 4.038 and RC Cola at 2.387. But, maybe it does. That's a 70% increase in acidity from root bear to RC.

FYI, battery acid has a pH of 1.0.

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clam fist said:
store bought seltzer is high in sodium. I make my own in a seltzer bottle and it is sodium free. I go thru a whole bottle a day.
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MaryC said:
Clam, are you sure you are getting is labeled seltzer water and not club soda? Seltzer water is sodium free, even the seltzer I buy when I'm in your neck of the woods. Club soda definitely has sodium in it but it isn't labeled seltzer water. I would kill for my own fizzer but then I would have to find a place for it too.
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My mistake, when I said seltzer I meant tonic water (or quinine). Oops.
 
I had a Mountain Dew with my Taco Bell on the way to work. Lets forget that it was Taco Bell first. But I didnt like the Dew. Tasted terrible. Ive felt so much better since drinking less soda.
 
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