Soda pop finally getting the recognition it deserves

[Auric]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

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 almost as bad per ounce, it's heavy on the sugars.

Ja, those juice boxes set kids up to be sweet toofed fatties. But once past the habit forming stage, real juice in moderation (like everyfing else) ain't gonna hurt and indeed is chocked full o' vitties.

 

[Skacer]

Originally posted by: Auric
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Seriousry, soda pop may be a good way for bad parents to pacify children but if you're still drinking it as an adult when potable water is available then you deserve to be a fat bastard.

It's really quite disgusting to see family dinner tables with a giganto 2L bottle or two of coloured sugar-water. Blech.

It's called habit. If you spend your entire childhood drinking sodas at your schools, after sports games and at home. Then when you grow up that is going to be part of your lifestyle and a very hard thing to break away from. Bad habits formed at an early age are repeated like instinct. On top of this, caffeine is addictive. I mean, do the math.

The thing that surprises me is that it took CNN this long to do this report? Hell, everyone knows this by now, this information would have been more eye opening like 10 years ago. I gave up soda for the most part in 2000. I say for the most part because I will still have one every now and again, but it is more of a treat like cake than the life-giving fluid of choice that gets downed 4 times a day.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: manowar821
That article is nearly spot on. I say nearly because "Diet" soda, or "Diet" anything in most cases is just as bad, or worse for you.

How so?

 

[Jeff7]

Full of sugar, soda adds calories without making a person feel full, nutritionists say.

The reason I stopped drinking soda, at least while still carbonated, was that it made me feel like my stomach was about to blow up from all the carbon dioxide.
Soda will also work as a "snack" if I'm really hungry and can't work in a meal. Maybe it's more a matter of self-control, and realizing that you're getting calories, even if they're not coming from solid food.

I've switched to Kool-aid as a substitute for soda. 1) I'm not paying to have water shipped to me by truck, I use cheap tap water. 2) For what it's worth, the sugar is genuine sugar cane, not corn syrup. 3) No carbonation. 4) It's got a wee bit of vitamin C.

 

[Skacer]

I believe the point, and the article doesn't deliver it very well, is that you can drink 3-4 sodas in a row without a problem. You can't usually pack away 3-4 burgers without a problem. Soda might make you burp, might make you piss, but it won't fill you up without first delivering some serious calories and sugar. It will also make you tired when you come back down from the sugar high. And god forbid you ever try to kick that caffeine addiction.

 

[Siddhartha]

Only in the US would a food or a refreshment beverage that has calories would be labeled as being bad.

 

[Saint Michael]

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.

If they replaced all of their soda with fruit juice they'd be taking in even more calories.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

I drink Fresca, so I'm ok.

 

[alien42]

coke rocks

my mom mentioned a couple of weeks ago that i have loved coke ever since i was a very small child. they did not give me coke often as a child but when i got it, it was pure bliss and it still is to this day.

 

[Amused]

Another "blame food" argument for obesity.

Wow.

Fact: Sweetened soda has been around for over 100 years.

Fact: Bottled soda Has been around since the late 1800s

Fact: Bottled soda really took off in the 1950s. My parents stopped at soda shops daily when they were kids in the 40s and 50s.

Fact: When I went to school in the 70s, we had soda.

Fact: The obesity epidemic did not start until the 80s, and really took off in the early-mid 90s.

There is no correlation here, folks. Soda is NOT the cause of obesity in our society.

And as for the HFCS causes obesity theory, it's bunk. It affects the body NO differently than table sugar. Not a single valid study using HFCS has shown anything to the contrary.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Laminator

Originally posted by: daveshel
I never could go without the stuff. Makes the inside of my mouth all tingly and happy.

Fixed. They can have my soda when they pry it from my cold, dead, obese, diabetic hands.

Give this man an award!

I don't drink or smoke. Diet soda is my vice.

 

[SpiderWiz]

soda or pop not soda pop!

 

[StageLeft]

I have drunk a lot of diet pepsi over the last decade, though currently the king is coke zero and I'll fight the man who says otherwise. That said, I've cut back on usage lately. It was doing weird things with my head and I'm simply positive the artificial sweeteners are not a net cost of zero. Somehow, somewhere, we'll have to pay for them. I have had a a 500 ml of regular coke quite frequently (great stuff), but in the last two weeks finally cut back, so now I'm one can of diet pepsi a day or less.

Anyway, overall pop is a damn good invention.

 

[Kirby]

I used to drink a Mountain Dew a day back in Jr. High and HS, but now I stick to water, milk, sweet tea, beer, or liquor. I may drink a coke once in a blue moon.

 

[Ig]

Originally posted by: Amused
Another "blame food" argument for obesity.

Wow.

Fact: Sweetened soda has been around for over 100 years.

Fact: Bottled soda Has been around since the late 1800s

Fact: Bottled soda really took off in the 1950s. My parents stopped at soda shops daily when they were kids in the 40s and 50s.

Fact: When I went to school in the 70s, we had soda.

Fact: The obesity epidemic did not start until the 80s, and really took off in the early-mid 90s.

There is no correlation here, folks. Soda is NOT the cause of obesity in our society.

And as for the HFCS causes obesity theory, it's bunk. It affects the body NO differently than table sugar. Not a single valid study using HFCS has shown anything to the contrary.

Ding Ding Ding.

People got fat cause they eat too damn much. Parents stopped watching what their kids eat and let them eat whatever they want. Parenting in general has gone to crap. "Video games are evil we need laws to prevent kids from playing the bad ones", "soda is making my kid fat", blah blah blah. 'Someone think of the children, so I don't have to' attitude is what's going on in America. Parents don't want to take active roles in their kids lives.

 

[rocadelpunk]

every now and then I'll have a mexican coke.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Soda is pretty bad for your teeth, even diet soda.

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: manowar821
That article is nearly spot on. I say nearly because "Diet" soda, or "Diet" anything in most cases is just as bad, or worse for you.

How so?

Ehhh, I should have clarified that. Anything that uses aspartame instead of sugar is worse for you.

Look up aspartame and the effects it has on living things. It's pretty disgusting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Ig
Ding Ding Ding.

People got fat cause they eat too damn much. Parents stopped watching what their kids eat and let them eat whatever they want. Parenting in general has gone to crap. "Video games are evil we need laws to prevent kids from playing the bad ones", "soda is making my kid fat", blah blah blah. 'Someone think of the children, so I don't have to' attitude is what's going on in America. Parents don't want to take active roles in their kids lives.

Or in other words, "I want kids who will do work around the house, allowing me to be lazier, but I don't want to raise them. Let the TV, Internet, and government raise them. Then I can blame someone else when my kids grow up to be obese morons."

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: manowar821

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: manowar821
That article is nearly spot on. I say nearly because "Diet" soda, or "Diet" anything in most cases is just as bad, or worse for you.

How so?

Ehhh, I should have clarified that. Anything that uses aspartame instead of sugar is worse for you.

Look up aspartame and the effects it has on living things. It's pretty disgusting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

Just controversy, no substantial proof that sides on one side or the other.

 

[Juno]

i 2nded that article.

i quit drinking soda in march 2005.

 

[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.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Amused
Another "blame food" argument for obesity.

Wow.

Fact: Sweetened soda has been around for over 100 years.

Fact: Bottled soda Has been around since the late 1800s

Fact: Bottled soda really took off in the 1950s. My parents stopped at soda shops daily when they were kids in the 40s and 50s.

Fact: When I went to school in the 70s, we had soda.

Fact: The obesity epidemic did not start until the 80s, and really took off in the early-mid 90s.

There is no correlation here, folks. Soda is NOT the cause of obesity in our society.

And as for the HFCS causes obesity theory, it's bunk. It affects the body NO differently than table sugar. Not a single valid study using HFCS has shown anything to the contrary.

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

 

[sdifox]

I am not sure, but I think pop helps me digest steak.

 

[sdifox]

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.

Doesn't that depend on what kind of fruit juice? I blend my own, the fruit is just blended. Everything is still there, just liquified.