Mark Sircus
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 In addition, diarrhea, extreme athletic physical training, sodas (especially cola type sodas, both diet and regular), sodium (high salt intake), stress (physical and mental—anything that activates a person's fight or flight reaction), and intense sweating all diminish magnesium levels.
Magnesium deficiency at a cellular level where it counts is not easy to diagnose, as serum magnesium levels do not correlate to muscle or cellular magnesium levels. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Carbonated beverages aren't as bad for bone health as the acid in many other foods, but we do know that children who drink sodas in general have reduced bone mass as adults and fracture more often. The same is true for adults who drink sodas. The reason appears to be that if you drink those kinds of drinks, you're less likely to drink healthy drinks that contain calcium and vitamin D. Evidence shows that if you can get the calcium in other ways, the soda should be OK. Vegetarian protein, interestingly, negatively affects bone strength. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Today, too many of us are drinking fluids that are high in calories like sodas and juices. Indeed, research has shown that adults today are drinking about 20 ounces more caloric beverages a day14. In fact, caloric beverages now make up 21 percent15 of our total calorie intake and sodas and fruit drinks alone account for 43 percent16 of our total added sugars in the diet (18 of those 42 teaspoons of sugar we eat daily!). That adds up to a tremendous number of calories in a year. And unfortunately most of us don't count those calories. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| A significant difference exists between drinking sodas and drinking water, especially when it comes to your digestive health. Our bodies are not made of sodas, coffee, or alcohol—they're made of pure water! Drinking these beverages throughout the day dehydrates the body and increases the amount of stress placed
Benefits of Water in the body on internal cleansing organs like the colon, liver and kidneys. To put it another way, anything you drink besides water requires water to break it down. |
Elaine Magee
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 In the interest of cutting excess calories, it behooves us all to avoid regular sodas and other sweetened drinks whenever possible. The best way to do this is to drink "no calorie" beverages instead. Some of the more obvious options are flavored mineral waters, seltzer water with a slice of lemon or lime, diet sodas (although some experts advise limiting these because they contain artificial sweeteners), and plain tea and coffee.
Even better, of course, is drinking beverages that contain potentially protective substances! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Aside from directly promoting diabetes and obesity, sodas also contain high amounts of phosphoric acid, a substance that dissolves bones and causes a loss of bone mineral density. This causes massive tooth decay as well as a shrinking jaw bone and overall skeletal fragility. Diet sodas are even worse, since they contain chemical sweeteners linked to neurological disorders and learning disabilities.
16. Air fresheners
Air fresheners contain cancer-causing chemicals. Unleashing them in the house exposes children to these chemicals, promoting asthma and other respiratory problems. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| The same is true for adults who drink sodas. The reason appears to be that if you drink those kinds of drinks, you're less likely to drink healthy drinks that contain calcium and vitamin D. Evidence shows that if you can get the calcium in other ways, the soda should be OK. Vegetarian protein, interestingly, negatively affects bone strength. All high-protein meals tend to increase the removal of calcium from bones, underscoring the importance of supplementing with calcium whether you get your protein from turkey or tofu. Another big calcium buster: salt. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 For example, heavy marketing of high-sugar sodas to kids in schools is legally questionable. This looks a little like Joe Camel. But unlike the tobacco industry, the food industry can play fair and still make money."
John Coale, another tobacco litigation veteran, also believes that lawsuits targeting marketing to children and adolescents are "fertile ground. sugar shdcker! sweet td smoke
If you smoke, do you ever wonder why your cigarettes taste so sweet? |
Mike Adams
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 Pathological aggressiveness in children and teenagers is related to the consumption of the refined sugars found in sweets and sodas. Jails are a showcase for this behavioral problem. In one of them a dietary experiment was carried out where sweets, cookies, and sodas were exchanged for fruit, fresh vegetables, and water. Aggressiveness and other behavior problems among the prisoners diminished remarkably in just a couple of weeks! This simple, inexpensive experiment clearly demonstrates the relationship between behavioral problems and diet.
- Francisco Contreras, M.D. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| According to the contract, school administrators were required to encourage students to drink sodas (even in class) to meet annual sales quotas and "... Coke machines were placed in locker rooms, and athletic directors emptied them each week and used the change to purchase equipment."40 Since when do colas improve athletic performance? Obviously, achievement was outweighed by profit in School District 11. |
| Our bodies are not made of sodas, coffee, or alcohol—they're made of pure water! Drinking these beverages throughout the day dehydrates the body and increases the amount of stress placed
Benefits of Water in the body on internal cleansing organs like the colon, liver and kidneys. To put it another way, anything you drink besides water requires water to break it down. Despite this simple logic, a large portion of the population continues to drink unhealthful beverages instead of water and they are chronically dehydrated! |
| Regardless of how you may feel about them, sodas are addictive and they are a type of drug. It does not matter what kind of soda or brand you think about—at least one verifiably toxic ingredient was used in its synthesis.
How Does Refined Sugar Cause a Toxic Colon?
In 1998, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) published a report called Liquid Candy. This report states, "Companies annually produce enough soda to provide 557 12-ounce cans ... to every man, woman, and child ... Carbonated drinks are the single biggest source of refined sugars in the American diet... |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Aspartame, the chemical with the brand name NutraSweet that is found in many candies and sodas, is non-nutritional and is not absorbed into your body. But the bacteria in your gut will attempt to treat aspartame the same way they treat lactose, and the sudden introduction of large amounts of the artificial sweetener into your system will produce huge amounts of methane gas. You'll begin to experience a bout of severe crampy pain, gas, and horrible diarrhea. Fortunately, it will go away. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The main problem with cravings arises when cravings for chocolate, sodas, sweets, and ice cream become substitutes for nutritious foods. Cravings often can also be clues about specific nutritional needs. A craving for ice cream may indicate an increased need for protein, fat, or calcium. A craving for acidic foods like pickles may be a clue to increased need for calcium or salt. A craving for sweets may indicate a need for more protein in the diet. Cravings for chips can indicate a need for more salt and fats. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Ultimately, when you repeatedly gobble and guzzle fast-acting candies, cookies, sodas, or much-like-sugar carbs, you're setting in motion a vicious, health-damaging SUGAR SHOCK! cycle. Let's see how it could play out.
Soon after you pop sugar cookies and soda in your mouth, your body breaks them down and releases glucose into your bloodstream. |
Marshall Editions
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 Also avoid simple carbohydrates, including sugar, honey, cookies, candy, ice cream, sodas, chocolate, dried fruits, and fruit juices.
Supplements: Zinc gluconate lozenges have both antiviral and immune-stimulating effects. Adults should take 25 mg per day; children should take a lower dosage. For example, a 30 lb child can be given 5 mg of zinc per day while suffering from swimmer's ear. Take 500 mg and 1,000 mg of vitamin C a day in separate doses to stimulate immune function. Reduce the dosage if you notice diarrhea. Vitamin A supports immunity. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Any digestible carbohydrate will do just fine as far as the bacteria are concerned, since they will progressively convert it to sucrose; this includes refined flour products and all sources of sugar, such as candy, honey, dried fruits, sweetened cereals, ice cream, canned or frozen fruits in syrup, hard candy, puddings, sodas, and other sweets. Since carbohydrates are an important part of our diet, they cannot be eliminated, but we can minimize their adverse dental effects and thereby discourage dental decay. |
| Evidence extrapolated from studies of animal subjects suggests that 200 caffeinated sodas, 125 cups of tea, or 75 cups of coffee consumed at one sitting would constitute a lethal dose of caffeine for a human being.
More than half of all women suffer from fibrocystic breast disease, a condition characterized by painful, lumpy breasts, at some point in their lives. The cause of fibrocystic breast disease is currently unknown, and developing this condition may coincide with an increased risk of breast cancer later in life. The role of caffeine in fibrocystic breast disease remains controversial. |
| Coffee and sodas are tied as the most frequent sources of caffeine, but about one-third of Americans drink tea regularly for their caffeine "fix." Worldwide, tea has a stronger following and accounts for 43 percent of all caffeine intake.14
In addition to caffeine, green, black, and oolong teas also contain small amounts of the methylxanthines called theobromine and theophylline. All of these methylxanthines are physiologically active, but each acts in slightly different ways in the body. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| But if my hypothesis turns out to be true, it might help explain why this "zero-calorie sugar substitute" in all those "diet" sodas and "lite" foods has never been much of a help in weight reduction — in fact just the opposite.
Action to take:
You, and especially your children, must avoid NutraSweet, aspartame, and any other artificial sweeteners for the dangerous toxins they are.
Check the label on everything you buy. If the label boasts that the product is "sugar free," they're probably riding the low-carbohydrate, high-animal protein wave. |
Marshall Editions
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| Avoid meat, fried foods, sugar, chocolate, and sodas, which suppress the immune system and interfere with the healing process.
Supplements: Take 1,200 IU of natural vitamin E (mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols) a day to help treat neuralgia, and 400 IU a day to help prevent it. Vitamin C helps to supporl the immune system and reduces stress damage to nerves. Take 1,000 mg four times a day Also take 30 mgof zinc a day to help support the immune system. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Many kidney stones are formed as a result of insufficient water intake and the consumption of foods or beverages that have dehydrating effects, including meat, artificial sweeteners, sugar, alcohol, tea, coffee and sodas. Also, smoking cigarettes or watching television for too many hours has a dehydrating effect on the body and causes urine to become overly concentrated. This increases the precipitation of urinary constituents. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| Avoid sodas and alcohol. Choose healthy options from an airport deli. Try a lean turkey sandwich loaded with veggies or a vegetarian sandwich. Other choices include: low-fat yogurt, grilled chicken breast sandwich on whole grain bread, vegetable wraps, and fresh fruit. Remember: Skip the mayo! Take advantage of travel to walk, walk, walk. Use layover time in airports for a brisk walk around the terminal. Skip the moving sidewalks. If you're in a new city, walking is the best way to explore. If you're on a car trip, stop regularly to stretch your legs and log some steps on your pedometer. |
| In fact, caloric beverages now make up 21 percent15 of our total calorie intake and sodas and fruit drinks alone account for 43 percent16 of our total added sugars in the diet (18 of those 42 teaspoons of sugar we eat daily!). That adds up to a tremendous number of calories in a year. And unfortunately most of us don't count those calories. Moreover, because liquids are less filling than solid foods, those high-cal drinks aren't even satisfying. By skipping the mocha frappuccinos and substituting a glass of water or club soda with lemon or lime, you'll reach your weight-loss goals a lot faster. |
| Countless packaged foods from sodas to fruit drinks to baked goods and even salad dressings, soups and packaged meal "helpers" contain a version of sugar whether it's called sucrose, dextrose, or maltose on the label. If you're trying to lose weight the added calories of these sweeteners will make your job harder.
Foods that contain artificial sweeteners are the stealth bombers of healthy eating. Food manufacturers have led us to believe that "low cal" is king. How
The Truth About "Low Fat" Packaged Foods. People who are trying to lose weight see reduced-fat foods as great diet foods. |
| Before the 1990s, sodas and fruit drinks were responsible for only about 5 percent of the average person's daily calorie intake.54 (Ten years ago, the main calorie contributor to the diet in the United States was white bread, which was responsible for only 5 to 7 percent of caloric intake.) That's a huge jump in caloric intake from beverages. And one of the problems with those beverages is that the calories they contribute to your diet aren't even satisfying. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The guys who consumed the largest quantities of phosphate-based sodas had the highest rate of stone recurrence.
We know that most stones are made from calcium oxalate, and we know limiting highoxalate foods is a really good idea. But what about limiting the other half of this duo— calcium? On the face of it, it sounds like a good idea. But it isn't, even though it's still given as advice by people who don't know what they're talking about.
"There's actually an inverse relationship between calcium intake and stone formation," Rubman says. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 This is why we recommend that you avoid caffeinated products as much as possible, including coffee, caffeinated teas, and caffeinated sodas.
Alcohol. Estrogen is broken down in the liver. If your liver is diseased or overtaxed, it will be unable to efficiently and effectively break down the estrogen circulating in your body. According to the American Liver Association and the American Liver Foundation, liver damage can occur when you consume two drinks a day on a daily basis or five to seven drinks a day on the weekend. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Edible Uses
The rhizome is not generally considered edible, though it is used to flavor soft drinks, especially root beer, and to produce foam on drinks such as beers and sodas. The young shoots are edible raw or cooked, as are the tendrils of the vine.
Other Uses
A red dye is made from the ripe tendrils. In folkloric tradition it is used to attract love and prosperity, and it is said to excite the passions, making men more virile and women more sensuous. |
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