Soda: Fat People’s Nectar of the Gods

One of the reasons why people are fat is because of sweetened beverages. Nothing is worse for your diet than sweetened beverages. According to CNN.com, detractors call it “liquid candy”. Sweetened beverages doesn’t just mean soda, (although soda is the biggest culprit) it also means artificially sweetened juices and drinks. Any and all of these drinks are very high in calories and no nutritional content whatsoever. It’s not just the sugar, it’s the corn syrup, starches, additives and other crap that they throw in to the drinks that causes an addictive reaction in people’s brain to keep drinking or to overeat.

“Highly concentrated starches and sugars promote overeating, and the granddaddy of them all is sugar-sweetened beverages,” said Ludwig, who runs the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children’s Hospital in Boston.

It’s not just adults who drink this rubbish, it’s children too, probably even more so than adults. If you think about it, children love sweet things, from candy to gum to soda. Soda is quintessential junk food just like tootsie rolls and tastycakes. They love it, it’s like liquid heroin! The parents of these children really need to take some kind of initiative to stop their kids from drinking soda and artificially sweetened juices. These inept parents keep ramming soda down little Johnny’s throat through a sippy cup because he complains of thirst and in a couple minutes he’s bouncing off the walls. They need to understand that giving a child a cup of soda gives off the equivalent effect of an adult drinking eight cups of coffee.

After a while of feeding their wild demon spawn, Johnny, soda or other juices, they notice that little Johnny is starting to gain weight, even though he’s being hell on heels and can’t control his hyperactivity. Pretty soon, little Johnny will look like the Michelan Man’s baby…all because his senseless, soft – witted parents (most likely overweight and drink 6 sodas a day, themselves) couldn’t think about the consequences of giving their kid soda. Of course, parents can’t just be blamed for this ( although it is the parents who are at fault), it’s also the marketing that goes into these soft drinks, along with McDonalds, useless toys and everything else marketed to kids (See Pepsi ad below). You think that kids don’t notice this? THINK AGAIN!!!

If you’re an avid soda drinker that wants to lose weight, stop drinking it entirely. Diet soda is fine once in a while, but start drinking water. If you don’t like water because it has no taste, then…

1. Your probably fat and consume 10 sodas a day. You’re so addicted you probably have to have a taste with anything you imbibe.

2. There’s flavored water, like Propel, which gives you a great taste, very minimal calories and a lot of nutritional value.

Soda is such a huge part of people’s diet that people drink it with every meal, as well as in between. A 32 oz. soda contains about 400 calories. That’s almost a quarter of an average person’s caloric intake a day. If you cut soda out of your diet and start drinking water, you’ll immediately start to see results of weight loss. Just don’t replace it with anything else that should come complete with a shot of insulin. Believe me, you’ll look better, you won’t feel like you’re about to have a diabetic stroke all the time and it’ll do a lot for your personal finances!

If you would like to read more about the article that inspired this one, go here:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/18/kd.liquid.calories/index.html