Soda pop finally getting the recognition it deserves

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: RiDE
I wonder what happens when people run of things to blame and point their finger at.

Then they say, "Dammit I'm bored now. It didn't used to be this way. We used to have things to complain about, but then YOU had to go and find a way to solve the world's problems! You suck!"

Problem solved.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: jagec
I barely drink it. Root beer occasionally, maybe a coke once on a blue moon. It just isn't that great. Fruit juice tastes much better.

What's sad is how much of the stuff kids drink.

fruit juice is just as full of sugar, and without the fibre found in the actual fruit. it's just as bad or worse in some cases.

It's about the same as eating the actual fruit (minus the fiber of course), and certainly no worse than soda. For one thing, it's not as acidic, it has fewer preservatives, and it has a lot more vitamins/minerals/other happyfunstuff.

I don't care about the calories, I'm 6'2" 160lbs and in good shape.

 

[Skacer]

Originally posted by: CPA
Amused, once again thank you for injecting some reality and sanity in a thread filled with stupidity and guilt.

Yea, exactly, food has absolutely nothing to do with the American lifestyle. People are just overweight because they don't run to work. Water and Soda are virtually the same thing. Give or take 400 calories.

 

[amdhunter]

I drank maybe a gallon to 2 gallons of Pepsi a day since I was a teenager and stopped cold turkey a few months ago.

I haven't lost any weight at all, so I don't think that soda was to blame for me being fat.

 

[Skacer]

Consuming more calories than you burn in a day has a really good chance of taking the blame for you being fat.

1 liter of soda is, on average, 400 calories. You were consuming anywhere from 3.5 - 7 liters of soda a day (supposedly). Assuming that was non-diet soda, that was anywhere from 1400 to 2800 liquid calories. I guess the big question is what did you substitute those 2800 calories of soda with? And, are you lifting? If you are actually trying to get in shape, your increased muscle mass could be hiding the numbers behind any fat loss. Otherwise I'm not sure what kind of serious issue you have.

 

[ItsAlive]

I dont think soda pop is the only reason for obesity by any means, but I think it is a major contributer for many people and heres why.

There are 3 types of fuel your body uses to make energy. Sugar (glucose), protein, and fat. Of these 3 types, Sugar is the easiest to break down and burn. If you consume large amounts of sugar your body will resort to using sugar as its main source of fuel. Therefore, if you eat a large meal consisting of protien and fats, but wash it down with 3 glasses of soda pop, your body will use the sugar in the pop for fuel, and store the meal as fat. This will result in obesity.

I really dont think it is one thing that causes obesity, and I really dont think that just cutting calories and exercising more is the answer either. I mean sure these methods may work in the long run, but I believe there is an underlying issue. One major problem I see is the consumption of simple carbohydrates along with fats at the same setting. The simple carbs are broken down rapidly and turned into sugar (glucose) which your body uses for fuel, and the fat that is consumed is stored, much like the effect of drinking soda pop. Simple carbs are really nothing more than a highly concentrated form of sugar. Any processed carb in the form of white bread, pasta, cake, cookie, doughnut.....ect. which has been made with refined white flour is just as bad for you as soda pop in my opinion. When these carbs are consumed with highly concentrated fats or large portions of proteins the effects are a prime environment for obesity to occur.

Another point that can be made is the fact that these simple carbs are bleached and put through a bromide process. When the flour is bleached and bromide is added, it kills the germ which holds the majority of natural enzymes and nutrients in the flour, bascially stripping it of any useable nutrition. Bromide is known to inhibit the function of the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland regulates the funciton of every gland in the body which in turn regulates every hormone in the body. This includes the function of the thyroid which regulates metabolism.

This is just a spec of dust compared to the whole underlying issue at hand with processed and refined foods. Alot of the public think that an overwieght person just eats too much and doesnt exercise enough, but what they fail to realize is that the whole commercial food industry is the cause of the rapidly increasing population of obese individuals.

Edit: Some of you may be thinking, well I'm safe cause I drink diet drinks......but contrary to what you may think, these drinks are severly detrimental to your health. Diet drinks or sugar free drinks, use artificial sweeteners and flavorings such as Aspartame, nutrasweet, splenda.....AKA: Excitotoxins. These excitotoxins corrode the receptors of the brain and result in many brain disorders, to name a few: Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and bi-polar disease.

 

[Skacer]

Originally posted by: ItsAlive
Edit: Some of you may be thinking, well I'm safe cause I drink diet drinks......but contrary to what you may think, these drinks are severly detrimental to your health. Diet drinks or sugar free drinks, use artificial sweeteners and flavorings such as Aspartame, nutrasweet, splenda.....AKA: Excitotoxins. These excitotoxins corrode the receptors of the brain and result in many brain disorders, to name a few: Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and bi-polar disease.

Don't group Aspartame and Splenda. Splenda, aka Sucralose, is water soluble. The only thing it was linked to was Thyroid problems in lab rats that were fed a diet that consisted of only Sucralose in massive quantities. Aspartame on the other hand, was linked with much worse but even that is a bit of a stretch (as in, the amount you'd need to ingest to have similar affects).

:thumbsup: On your carb knowledge.