Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 So you might think that the answer is to switch to diet sodas, right? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Research at the University of Texas actually showed that in an eight-year study, 55 percent of those subjects who drank 12 to 24 ounces of diet sodas daily became overweight—about twice as many as those consuming regular soft drinks with HFCS. In other words, diet soda consumption is twice as likely to lead to obesity as consuming soft drinks sweetened with HFCS. Why? Because it appears the diet drinks confuse the appetite control centers to trigger hunger rather than promote satiety. |
| Although diet sodas contain no calories, they contain numerous unhealthy chemicals and keep your taste buds and brain attuned to desiring very sweet flavors. diet sodas are certainly better than sugar-laden beverages, but you're far better off to develop a taste for water, mineral water, and healthy, unsweetened teas.
Choose Lower Caloric-Density Foods
All foods are composed of some combination of fat, carbohydrate, protein, fiber, and water. |
Andreas Moritz
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 If pregnant women consume large quantities of diet sodas to avoid weight gain, their placenta may accumulate methyl alcohol, causing mental retardation in the fetus. They also risk maternal malnutrition because of the gastrointestinal problems and diarrhea associated with sweeteners.
Other sweeteners besides aspartame have similar effects. Added to soft drinks, they are now even linked with testicular damage and other key areas of the body. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 These are all code words for "high sugar" or sweet taste.
10. diet sodas. All studies show they raise your insulin levels and make you store fat.
11. Fruit-filled breakfast bars or flavored yogurts.
12. Too many nuts. Just how big is that "handful" of nuts you're snacking on? Make sure it's no more than 1/4 cup.
Ornish diet, although my triglycerides shot up to 400! But, whoa, at six weeks, my genetic autopilot took over and my weight ricocheted hack! Why? Because I couldn't compete against the activation of my "Store Fat for Winter" program. |
Elaine Magee
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 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! Tea is the latest trend in beverages, and the variety of health benefits associated with tea probably has a lot to do with it. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Avoid regular and diet sodas while taking this drug.
•Rhubarb. This vegetable contains natural chemicals that increase blood pressure and can reduce the effects of antihypertensive drugs such as hydrochlorothiazide.
Ask your doctor about: Eating five medium stalks of celery daily when taking antihypertensive drugs. Celery lowers blood pressure and can make the treatment more effective.
Organic Food Drives Pesticides Out of Your Body in Just Days
ChenshengLu, PhD, assistant professorof environmental and occupational health, Emory University, Atlanta.
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Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 But don't drink extremely sweet beverages such as diet sodas. They will promote sugar and carb cravings," adds Dr. Lieberman, who also considers no-sugar-added protein shakes and unsweetened fiber supplements effective cravings busters.
Others who've helped people kick sweets believe that it's also vital to cut out salt and stop eating corn until you've given up sugar for two months.
In addition, all experts advise keeping nourishing quality carbs on hand at all times—specifically raw, low-sugar vegetables and fruits so that you always have something to eat in a pinch. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Regardless of whether it is a child or an adult who regularly drinks diet sodas, eats hamburgers, or consumes lowfat foods, both of them will manufacture gallstones in direct response to such dietary choices. Many children are literally being poisoned by what they eat or drink, including the popular "healthy" breakfast cereals.5 It is not surprising to find that many children today have already accumulated hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of gallstones in their liver. The more they have gathered, the more likely they are to suffer from such serious illnesses as the ones you have mentioned. |
Mark Sircus
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 In the same way, magnesium binds with aspartame, which is a major ingredient in diet sodas.
Clearly, in this day and age, magnesium supplementation is actually crucial for everyone today. However, the method of supplementation is critical in terms of effective body utilization.
Magnesium is absorbed primarily in the distal small intestines or colon. Active uptake is required involving various transport systems such as the vitamin D-sensitive transport system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If the world were really concerned about food safety, they would ban virtually all common food items made in the USA: Beef, hamburgers, processed meats, sugary sweets, diet sodas, frozen dinners and much more. The USA is the largest exporter of death and disease in the entire world. We sell more disease-promoting crap than anyone, and every country that adopts the U.S. diet sees an immediate and rapid decline in the health of its population.
You see, the "Blame China" campaign isn't really about protecting U.S. consumers from dangerous products. It's about shifting blame from the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. If you value the health of your children, avoid air freshener products and just use essential oils or citrus peels instead. (Peel an orange and hang the peel in your kitchen.)
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Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Research at the University of Texas actually showed that in an eight-year study, 55 percent of those subjects who drank 12 to 24 ounces of diet sodas daily became overweight—about twice as many as those consuming regular soft drinks with HFCS. In other words, diet soda consumption is twice as likely to lead to obesity as consuming soft drinks sweetened with HFCS. Why? Because it appears the diet drinks confuse the appetite control centers to trigger hunger rather than promote satiety. health with dramatically increased rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and virtually ever other chronic disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Saccharin is a noncaloric petroleum derivative estimated to be three hundred to five hundred times sweeter than sugar… It's used in diet soft drinks… Studies done in the 1970s linked saccharin ingestion to bladder cancer in laboratory animals"
"Children who drink large quantities of diet sodas containing aspartame are particularly vulnerable to its dangerous side effects."
"Aspartame contains methyl or wood alcohol, which can affect fetal brain development."
"Twenty-one percent of the sugar in the American diet comes from soft drinks! |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Doctors don't know why some peopleusually older adults—experience this bizarre hearing problem. Luckily, you don't need to duck under the covers for long, since these explosions tend to stop after a few weeks or months. So while this may be one of the scariest-sounding signs you'll hear about, it's probably one of the most benign. The good news is, it's not linked to any medical problem.
HEARING SOUNDS THAT OTHERS DON'T
If you start hearing things such as songs that aren't playing, it can be pretty scary. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 And some new evidence suggests that the consumption of artificially sweetened foods (and beverages like diet sodas) could disrupt our innate ability to judge the caloric content of food and eat accordingly, leading us to eat more when we're consuming a lot of artificially sweetened stuff. Definitely food for thought. (The Hellers offer a quiz to determine if you are "addicted to diet drinks.") I think this idea actually has a great deal of merit.
3. Glutamates are also carb act-alikes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Soft drinks can decrease the antibacterial action of penicillin and ampicillin."
"Diet sodas that are low in calories are high in sodium. Too much salt in the diet may cause more calcium to be excreted in the urine and increase the risk of osteoporosis."
"Excessive consumption of soft drinks, which are high in phosphorus, can also deplete you of calcium and increase your chances of osteoporosis."
Jean Carper
Food: Your Miracle Medicine : How Food Can Prevent and Cure over 100 Symptoms and Problems
"Tests at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine by Roland R. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Saccharin is a noncaloric petroleum derivative estimated to be three hundred to five hundred times sweeter than sugar… It's used in diet soft drinks… Studies done in the 1970s linked saccharin ingestion to bladder cancer in laboratory animals"
"Children who drink large quantities of diet sodas containing aspartame are particularly vulnerable to its dangerous side effects."
"Aspartame contains methyl or wood alcohol, which can affect fetal brain development."
"Twenty-one percent of the sugar in the American diet comes from soft drinks! |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Another person's diabetes could be caused by an adverse reaction from artificial sweeteners and diet sodas. Another person's diabetes could be caused by a Candida yeast overgrowth. Another person's diabetes could be caused by heavy metal toxicity partially due to silver fillings in the teeth. The list of causes can go on and on. Without knowing the cause means you cannot effectively treat the patient. If you have disease or illness, remember, do not treat the symptom. You must first find out the cause; then you can find and treat the condition from the true source of the problem. |
| It amazes me how many people that I know will sit and order a diet soda! diet sodas are loaded with artificial sweeteners. The new artificial sweetener is Splenda. This should be avoided at all costs as well. For more information on the dangers of Splenda please go to www.the truthaboutsplenda.com. Splenda is starting to replace aspartame as the artificial sweetener of choice. The reason is the research is now becoming so conclusive that food manufacturers needed another artificial sweetener that had the same qualities as aspartame. |
| This is why people who drink lots of diet sodas have bigger hips and thighs. Aspartame is also extremely dangerous for diabetics because it drives the blood sugar out of control. This also causes the body to convert food to fat much more easily. Children, pregnant women, and diabetics are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should never be given artificial sweeteners, particularly aspartame.
Somebody will ask, "Why isn't something being done about this?" The answer is for you to remember "it's always all about the money. |
| Many of my suggestions are still in use today within the school lunch program and the vending machine systems used to get children hooked on the new crack, diet sodas. My covert activities made certain corporations billions of dollars in profits.
With the publishing of Mega Memory I had turned the corner and now was trying to help the children instead of the corporations. When I went on television and exposed the drugging of children in schools and the lack of teaching children how to learn, I had crossed the line with the government. |
Mike Adams
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 While all soft drinks containing fluoride will leach aluminum from the can, diet sodas may be worse than regular sodas because the fluoride content, at least in one study, was higher in the diet drinks. Although most aluminum cans now have inner linings, the coating may be defective and can also be fractured during shipping.
Furthermore, the longer a canned drink sits, especially at higher temperatures, the more aluminofluoride compound will be created in the drink. This would be a major consideration, for example, in the millions of diet soft drinks donated to soldiers in the Persian Gulf. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 I have been having 1-2 diet sodas a day for a little over a year now. I wondered at one point if this might be the problem, but when I asked my doctor he said it couldn't be. So, I discounted my suspicions." She now decided her suspicions were worth investigating and decided to experiment by eliminating her daily dose of diet soda.
A week later Marisa returned and announced that she felt like a new person. The sense of gloom that had dominated her life
...your mood (often created by the foods you choose) determines what you eat at your next meal. |
Michele Simon
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 When pressed by CCR, Kahn indicated that this seal would probably be featured only on Cadbury's diet sodas, since they're reduced in calories.24
Isn't it nice to know that the ADA has such high nutritional standards? |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 It makes absolutely no sense to be allowed relative freedom to consume quantities of low-calorie diet sodas laced with artificial flavorings, artificial colorants, and artificial sweeteners (all of which can cause irritability, depression, and confusion) while being discouraged from consuming the foods that God intended us to eat.
High-protein diets have been found to affect the mind and emotions negatively. This type of diet can result in metabolic disturbances, mental confusion, lack of ability to control emotions, and liver and kidney damage. |
Mike Adams
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 That means no diet sodas, "sugar-free" treats or other sources of such chemicals.
To protect your vision, you should eat large servings of raw, unprocessed berries. I believe the best berry in the world for enhancing vision is the camu camu Berry. The best source for that is currently the Amazon Herb Company out of Florida, which grows its own camu camu berries in Peru and imports them into the United States. (See my recommended list of Amazon Herb contacts in the resources section of this book. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Soft drinks can decrease the antibacterial action of penicillin and ampicillin."
"Diet sodas that are low in calories are high in sodium. Too much salt in the diet may cause more calcium to be excreted in the urine and increase the risk of osteoporosis."
"Excessive consumption of soft drinks, which are high in phosphorus, can also deplete you of calcium and increase your chances of osteoporosis."
Jean Carper
Food: Your Miracle Medicine : How Food Can Prevent and Cure over 100 Symptoms and Problems
"Tests at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine by Roland R. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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| The basic weight loss menu consists of the following:
• protein six times a day (at all three meals plus three snacks)
• three fruits a day (or two fruits and one grain)
• two servings of vegetables a day
You can have fat-free salad dressing, any calorie-free beverage (including diet sodas and the like), powdered creamer for your coffee, and various spices.
After every twenty-eight-day weight loss module, you go on to a two-week "metabolic adjustment. |
| You can go a long way toward reducing any negative health impact of coffee by purchasing organically grown beans.
Are diet sodas Acceptable on My Low-Carb Diet?
You'd be much better off without them. If you can't give them up right away, put it on your goal list and at least start cutting back. Most of them use aspartame, which should definitely be eliminated (see next question); in addition, diet soda can stall weight loss in some people (up to 40 to 50 percent, by some estimations), possibly due to the citric acid they contain. |
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