<p>I don’t drink pop, so I can’t blame my memory on this, but I know a lot of people who do.
[Medical</a> Daily: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Rots Your Memory](<a href=“http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120515/9892/fructose-sugar-memory-learning.htm]Medical”>http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120515/9892/fructose-sugar-memory-learning.htm)</p>
<p>I think people who drink soda start out stupid. Pay THAT MUCH MONEY for something that rots your teeth and makes you fat, too? Gotta be stupid.</p>
<p>I drink diet soda…way too much of it, but not with corn syrup!</p>
<p>Unfortunately vlines, I don’t know if diet is much better.
I don’t like carbonation, so I don’t usually drink soda myself, but I know some people are practically addicted!
[New</a> study is wake-up call for diet soda drinkers - HealthPop - CBS News](<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20075358-10391704/new-study-is-wake-up-call-for-diet-soda-drinkers/]New”>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20075358-10391704/new-study-is-wake-up-call-for-diet-soda-drinkers/)
Probably better for your teeth though.</p>
<p>the carbonation is really bad for your bones, stops calcium absorption. I know that, keep drinking it! </p>
<p>I have read that the artificial sweetner can be just as bad for you too.</p>
<p>We have worked to get the high fructose corn syrup out of our diets. We don’t do diet food either. While the HFCS is a major contributor to the “fattening” of America the aspartame in soda is even worse! The trick, in general, is to try to stay away from chemically altered foods.</p>
<p>You can find a ‘study’ that shows the negative effects of almost anything we consume (or touch, or breathe, or…).</p>
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Do you think it contributes to it any more than any other sugar - like cane sugar? I doubt it does.</p>
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Certainly not ‘as bad’ in the context of calories. Maybe other ways, but not calories.</p>
<p>I find it silly when some people (not talking about anyone on this thread) talk about the horrors of drinking soda yet regularly stop at Starbucks and drink high calorie and high caffeine coffee plus those other things they sell there.</p>
<p>HFCS is used in things other than soda as well so it’s possible your brain is rotting even without drinking soda.</p>
<p>GGD…I know my brain is rotting with or without the soda. I was hopeing that the artificial sweetner and preservatives in the food was “preserving” my body. THe wrinkles on my face tell me I was wrong.</p>
<p>I rarely drink soda, perhaps once every three months?</p>
<p>But if you look hard enough, there is some thing bad about ANY FOOD/DRINK that human consumes. We all die some times, mind as well enjoy what you like.</p>
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<p>funny typo. I only plan to die once. I hope. But well perserved.</p>
<p>:)…I think I should not stand corrected.</p>
<p>It’d be interesting to see some stats comparing numbers of people who die from some of these ‘manufactured’ products versus purely ‘natural’ (unprocessed) products. Some of these natural products have caused deaths and injury due to e-coli, salmonella, and other bacteria. I know when I’ve gone to Mexico I’d much rather drink a soda than the water since the processing has controls built in to kill a lot of the bad bugs.</p>
<p>Speaking of Mexico - I think in a lot of other countries Coca Cola and other major brands are still using cane sugar rather than HFCS. I assume this is due to a lack of governmental subsidies to use the corn based HFCS outside of the USA.</p>
<p>I think the key is moderation - on HFCS, diet drinks, coffee, and most other things and hope for the best.</p>
<p>I think it was Dr. Dean Edell (the radio doc) who reported that drinking too many diet sodas each day affects your short-term memory…but maybe that was when they were using Nutrasweet? (I hope I’m remembering that right, I had a diet soda today.)</p>
<p>^^ But other studies have said that some caffeine improves short term memory. I wonder if a diet Mountain Dew has the diet stuff and caffeine cancel each other out?</p>
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<p>Doesn’t really matter. Table sugar, cane sugar, HFCS are, for all intents and purposes, identical from a metabolism standpoint. They are all roughly half glucose and half fructose. According to Dr. Robert Lustig, the chronic overconsumption of fructose is a serious health problem, based on its unique metabolism in the liver. He believes that chronic overconsumption of fructose is a primary cause of insulin resistance, which is the underlying culprit in obesity, type 2 diabetes, and so forth.</p>
<p>The explosion of soda consumption, fruit juices, and sports drinks is problematic because the dose of fructose is so high when guzzling sweet drinks. You would have to eat four or five oranges to get the fructose from a glass of orange juice. You just can’t eat that much fruit in the few minutes it takes to chug a glass of juice.</p>
<p>I hardly ever go to Starbucks. But I do drink caffeine-black tea, green tea & coffee.
I am married to a Scandinavian and coffee is like life’s blood to them.
I also have mild asthma, and caffeine helps that.
( & I don’t have to remember which way the inhaler is supposed to point)
[Caffeine</a> Shown As Effective At Reducing Exercise-induced Asthma Symptoms As An Albuterol Inhaler](<a href=“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090531102507.htm]Caffeine”>Caffeine Shown As Effective At Reducing Exercise-induced Asthma Symptoms As An Albuterol Inhaler -- ScienceDaily)</p>
<p>I don’t drink Starbucks coffee :p, but their ice cream is really good.
;)</p>
<p>A perspective on HFCS from the corn producers -
[SweetSurprise.com</a> | The Facts about High Fructose Corn Syrup](<a href=“http://www.sweetsurprise.com/]SweetSurprise.com”>http://www.sweetsurprise.com/)</p>
<p>ek4 - I hadn’t heard about caffeine effects on asthma - interesting.</p>
<p>interesteddad - that was my point - I’m not sure there’s a huge difference between consuming one form of sugar vs another - it’s regularly consuming the 64oz sugar laden drinks that’s the problem.</p>
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<p>Yep. It’s the fructose that’s the problem. Doesn’t matter if it comes from HFCS or table sugar or cane sugar or honey or orange juice.</p>
<p>And, yes, the Big Gulp is a huge problem. When I was a kid, the standard bottle of Coke was 6 ounces. Now, it’s 20 ounces. Fruit juice is another big problem. The development of the concentrated juice technology in the 1950s made frozen orange juice, grape juice, and lemonaid possible on a national scale. Before that, you had to squeeze the oranges yourself and juice consumption was very limited. Now, people feed it to their kids thinking it’s “healthy”.</p>
<p>Drinking sugar is probably the single worst thing that you can from a nutrition/diet standpoint. Cutting out soda, fruit juice, sweet tea, sports drinks, and flavored sweet milk is the number one change most of us should make. I wish I had understood the ramifications when I was parenting.</p>
<p>I had a yummy drink tonight with honey flavored w cloves ( & rum & some kind of brandy & lemon)
But I drink my coffee without sugar, so does that count?</p>
<p>Speaking of coffee- this study suggests I should drink more.
[Coffee</a> buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer - Times Union](<a href=“http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Coffee-buzz-Study-finds-java-drinkers-live-longer-3563539.php]Coffee”>http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Coffee-buzz-Study-finds-java-drinkers-live-longer-3563539.php)</p>