About 20 years ago, my brother Gordon told me, "Diet
sodas will make you fat." I
couldn't see it and only the last 5 years or so have I stopped drinking them.
I'll have an occasional one, yes, but will usually opt for a drink with real
sugar in it. REAL SUGAR! Charge! Yes,
real sugar and although not related, I switched back to real butter too.
For a number of years I've noted the alarming number of kids
with mental disorders and I remember growing up and not seeing this phenomenon.
I lived in Toledo, Ohio in the 6-8th grade and there was one fellow
of maybe 25 on the corner everyone said was "retarded". He smiled a
lot and was never really outside his house and we would wave at him as we
pedaled past on our wheeled iron horses. He was harmless and to us kiddos, a novel
mystery. His name was Jim.
Jim is the only kid I can remember who was
"retarded". All the other kids were "normal", meaning it
ran the spectrum from tame to wild and honest to criminal. Some were over-achievers,
others were very studious, but as a whole, most boys were rowdy to a degree. No
one ever thought any of the boys had accelerated attention problems. They were
boys for gosh darn sake. They acted like what they were and that is the way it
was.
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Something has happened in the last 50 years to create this
massive and unexplained plethora of mental deviations. It seems everyone you
know either has a kid on anxiety drugs, or is accused of a mental departure
from what is labeled as normal. Back in the day people didn't drink Tab or
Fresca because they were leery of sodium cyclamates (sweetener code 952) and on
top of that, they tasted terrible... but they were diet drinks, so many endured
the after taste.
To my personal knowledge and experience, this was my first
artificial sweeter experience. Cyclamates are banned for human consumption in
the US, but 130 other countries allow it. I don't care, I won't knowingly allow
the substance in my food or drink. I will not consume any product with high
fructose corn syrup or aspartame. Give me real sugar from honey, beets, or
cane. I will curb the amount I use. Better yet, I will mix my 100% fruit juice
with filtered water for my "soda" fix.
Its what's in my gym water bottle and works fine without a
boost from artificial ingredients like Red Bull and Monster drinks. Speaking of
those type of drinks, they are liquid Drano with enough citric acid to dissolve
rusty metal. I say no to "energy" drinks or supplements. I've
witnessed how much energy these drinks give people and 10 minutes after
chugging one, they can hardly keep their eyes open. Its a typical big rush
followed by a huge crash. The answer is always to drink more.
If one of these USDA approved sweeteners is present (saccharin
(SugarTwin, Sweet'N Low), acesulfame (Sunett, Sweet One), aspartame (Equal,
NutraSweet, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure), neotame (NutraSweet variety), and
sucralose (Splenda), I will not consume them. I'm going to avoid Stevia for
the time being also, but it may be a very viable alternative.
Pretty much if the product is advertised as "diet or
low this or low that" I am going to avoid it and go as natural as
possible. I have to start somewhere and this is the line in the dust. I'm not
going to make a big issue out of it and I will have to exercise portion
control, but gosh, aren't we all accountable for what goes into our mouths
anyway?
There is a study that suggests that your brain not only sees
the artificial stuff as real, but it responds just like it would with sugar, so
why oh why are we being duped into believing it is a diet drink? Aspartame has
over 90 documented adverse reactions including mental retardation, Alzheimer's,
fibromyalgia, birth defects and the list goes on.
Why is it that country people who grow old eating the pigs they
butcher and the garden they grow, ate bacon, eggs, sweet tea, biscuits and
gravy and are still healthy into their 80's and 90's or older and we are dying
in our 40's? Join me and remove this possibly dangerous substance from your
diet. Just say no to artificial sweeteners.
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