Posted on 11/05/2023 9:21:22 PM PST by DallasBiff
Sustainable weight loss is rarely a quick fix. Aside from getting proper nutrition and regular exercise, there is another important factor to consider that can make all the difference in the long term. Quitting soda will not only help you to lose weight but will also improve your health. When consumed on a regular basis, sugary soda and other high-calorie drinks can lead to obesity and even chronic disease.
Calories in soda add up quickly, regardless of the brand you buy. The calories in Coke, for example, are fairly straightforward if you drink a single can. There are 140 calories and 39 grams (10 teaspoons) of added sugar in a single 12-ounce serving.1 That means Coca-Cola provides about 12 calories per ounce. Most brands of soda have calorie counts that are similar. For instance, the calories in Canada Dry Gi
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When Coca Cola announced that I was too white, I stopped drinking carbonated drinks and dropped 35 lbs.
I finally did it--by having a motorcycle accident and being in the hospital for four days on a morphine drip.
Caffeine-free since then.
Like filling your gas tank (stomach), it takes a few minutes to fill it, but hours to empty it.
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Good analogy.
Coke Zero. My favorite.
I drink carbonated water. Over time the flavored ones taste terrible and phony and the regular plain ones tolerable.
I haven’t touched soda in years. Even switched to Jack and club soda with a twist of lime as my mixed drink of choice.
And I’m sure that you don’t fall under the criteria they list for people who should “quit” soda.
It’s not just cliche’: All things in moderation (except poisons).
Just try to avoid that splenda crap.
Interesting. We will look for that, when shopping.
Any time you see a greenie beanie drinking a soda, point out they are drinking CARBON DIOXIDE and destroying the climate.
I’m right with you. 213 to 193 in a couple months. Cut the pop out. I travel frequently for work and pay more attention to my meals. More salads, lots of salmon and other fish.
Only one steak. (C’mon many, it was Capitol Grill)
I’m heading out in an hour to another work trip where I’ll be eating carefully.
"Can" is not "will," and with zero fat calories I think soda is not likely to add weight by itself unless you are drinking many cans a day, esp. with HFCS, and fail to wait to consume calories until you actually need to out of energy depletion. Pray for the right weight, and practice temperance. I rarely drink soda, but do drink tea or cocoa with sugar.
I think that studies that implicate soda with weight gain may be ignoring what is typically eaten with them. Not just junk food, but high fat foods (aside from the keto diets, - advocates of which who usually reject any debate).
Fat calories turn into body fat more easily than carbohydrates or proteins. They also can confuse your appetite, so you can’t tell when you are full. Bad fats raise your total cholesterol and blood pressure. They can increase your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers. - https://familydoctor.org/dietary-fats-whats-good-and-whats-bad/
And yet,
Despite their bad reputation, junk food, fast food and soda aren't the root causes of America's obesity epidemic, Cornell University researchers contend. While these sugary and salt-laden foods may not be good for your health, the scientists found no significant difference in how much of these foods either overweight or normal weight people consumed...."For 95 percent of the country, there is no relationship between how much fast food and junk food they're eating and their weight," Just said. "Because of the bad habits we have, with all our food, just eliminating junk food is not going to do anything."- https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sc-junk-food-obesity-health-1105-20151105-story.html
And yet:
Here's some more interesting observations involving force-feeding studies. In How To Lower Your Fat Thermostat (1983) by D.W. Remington, MD, A.G. Fisher, PhD, and E. A. Parent, PhD, the authors report (page 70) that "In some people, even huge amounts of extra eating will fail to cause weight gain. These people seem to have a weight-regulating mechanism that can vigorously defend the selected weight by wasting huge quantities of excess energy intake." They further observed that any forced weight gain did not last because "subjects will quickly return to pre-study weight even though no continuous effort is made to diet."On page 71 the authors described a case study in which "A German scientist carefully measured his caloric intake for a full year and noted that he ate an average of 1760 calories per day." For another year he ate an extra 400 calories per day and "At the end of the year, he was still very close to his original weight even though he had eaten enough extra energy to have gained over 40 pounds. He then increased his intake another 600 calories a day for another year without changing his original weight."
There is a possible explanation for this; unabsorbed calories. The digestive tract is a tube open at both ends. Muscular contractions propel food through the tube at various rates depending on the amount of food eaten and on the amount of soluble and insoluble fiber present in the food. Since soluble fiber forms a gel in the intestinal tract, it both slows absorption of digested protein, carbohydrate, and fat into the bloodstream and prevents some calories from being absorbed altogether. Consequently, The unabsorbed calories exit the digestive tract in the fecal material.
Discussion of absorption efficiency on page 78 of How to Lower Your Fat Thermostat: "There is some evidence that the surface area of the gut can be increased by food denial to increase the efficiency of absorption...Rats eating only meal a day have a markedly increased rate of food digestion and absorption. Many obese people also seem to digest food more quickly, perhaps because of dietary efforts and periods of food denial." - https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/unabsorbed-calories-important-consideration
And as for diet soda:
Although observational studies support the hypothesis that sugar-sweetened soft drinks cause weight gain, a paucity of hypothesis-confirming clinical trial data has left the issue open to debate...since drinking the diet soda has fooled your body into expecting sugar, it's changed the way you metabolize those other calories--you may store more of them as fat and use fewer of them as energy--which could leave you hungry and wanting even more food. - https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/diet-soda-weight-gain-metabolism-insulin-brain-fat-metabolic-syndrome.html
Yes, normally, yet see my post above. I thank God in Christ was what health I have at 71, 130lbs, without needing any medical care for 40 years, except to remove a piece of rust from an exhaust pipe (before I wore glasses) around 1990.
I drink one a day with supper and I’m not fat ,LOL, but I can’t see how some people go around all day with a coke etc in their hands , they usually leave half cans of drink everywhere ,LOL
Something in soft drinks is supposed to be terrible for your bones — causes osteoporosis. (I still drink about 1 Diet Pepsi every couple of days.)
Yah, just more twaddle from Karens who want to control your life.
Too many calories via drinks? Cut back.
Geesh.
Exactly.
In the end, sugary drinks are highly processed foods. Highly processed foods in general aren’t good for you.
In it’s natural state, your body is designed to burn fat.
How (and Why) to Stop Drinking Soda
Coffee decaf if you don’t like the rush
I lost about 30# when I stopped drinking soft drinks about 20 years ago. That was the only change I made in my diet. Switched from soft drinks to unsweet iced tea. I’ll have a Dr. Pepper every once in a while now. A 4-pack of the genuine sugar DR. Pepper will last almost 2 weeks.
Soft drinks, especially with corn syrup are really not good for you at all.
Kinda drastic action to take just to stop drinking soft drinks. Is the bike ok? :-)
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