re: #171 Lidane

I had to quit diet soda. I was drinking so much of it at one point that I ended up with kidney stones. These days, if I have anything carbonated, it’s usually Topo Chico. I’ll allow myself the occasional real soda, but only if it’s the cane sugar sweetened stuff. I try to avoid HFCS as much as I can.

Most “sweet” drinks are bad because the liver doesn’t process sugar the same way that the stomach does. If it gets too much sugar it just changes it over to fat. Most fruit juice isn’t even that good for you. One glass of apple juice has almost as much sugar as a can of coke.

And the diet sodas have been shown to lead to more belly fat among other ailments (I hate artificial sweeteners anyway).