That would be me. I think softdrinks taste horrible, and from a young age avoided them as best I could. (sometimes you go to a house party that's all they serve for beverage)

I believe I average less than 2 regular sized cans of softdrinks of any kind a year.

I am just wondering if there is anyone who drinks just as little or less softdrinks than me. :)

Dio, I don't smoke and I drink very rarely but my biggest weakeness is my Coke !
Consider it a blessing that you hate soft drinks !
Unfortunatly, I am addicted to Coca Cola ! :(

I'm the same although I have to mention I've never been a big fan of anything sweet. Instead, I drink about 2 liters of water a day. I am a smoker though :(

I dont' drink a lot of soda, but definitely more than 2 cans a year! Wow, I don't think i've ever met anyone who doesn't drink soda. Thats awesome.. what do you hate about it? you said taste.. what about the bubbles? do you also avoid other sweet things?

Not at all. I enjoy sweetness in a lot of foods. I enjoy the carbonation in beers. I just don't like the taste of sodas. If it's the only thing available and I am thirsty I definitely will drink it, but I never feel like I need to or want to drink soda.

Yeh addiction to Pepsi, used to be coke but then Pepsi just tastes better.

I don't drink soda. I am a nutrition consultant, so soda for me is either: 12 teaspoons of sugar and 45 flavoring chemicals in carbonated water OR 45 flavoring chemicals and an excitotoxin (aspartame a.k.a. Nutrasweet) in carbonated water. Basically it's a small dose of poison in a can... I used to drink 2 liters a day when I was a teen, and I certainly suffered for it, not as much as some people I know tho'. As far as drugs go, soda is cheap and white trash on my list. But..... that doesn't mean there's not lots of nice people addicted to it.....

The only soda I drink is ginger ale, and I don't even have that very much. Coke and Pepsi, even the diet kind, taste disgustingly sweet to me and I don't really see how anyone could drink them. Yesterday I had a root beer float, and I got really really nauseous. Mostly I just drink juice now.

not me....i love soda...sprite is my fav
coke over pepsi tho...i might just be brand loyal

Sprite lacks caffeine! I prefer Pepsi over Cherry Coke over Coke over Mountain Dew over Dr. Pepper over the rest.

In non-caffeine land, it's IBC root beer over other root beers over ginger ale over 7-up over the rest.

I more or less think along the lines of abortretryfail 9, but I'm not as anal about it (hehe...anal...). I'll have a soda from time to time, but I make a point to drink it as little as possible. I'll stick to my Gatorade/Powerade/OJ routine.

hello..I despise anything with aspertame in it..its a killer and people dont know it .I found this in another forum.
Must Read---Very Important!!!!

Read this one right through to the end, rather frightful.

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had stomach
spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk was a major
chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed, she was in so
much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone biopsies, and was on 24
various
prescription medications. The doctors could not figure out what was wrong
with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick, she knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest
daughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be with her
oldest daughter.
She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
(basically in
a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th I called her to ask her how
one
of her tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test,
but
they believe she had MS. I thought, oh, my....then I recalled an article
a
friend of mine emailed to me... and I asked her... Do you drink Diet pop?

She told me yes, as a matter of fact she was getting ready to crack one
open that moment, I told her not to open it, and stop drinking the diet
pop....and I emailed her the following article. She called me within 32
hours after our phone conversation and told me she stopped drinking the
diet pop, and she can walk...she went up the stairs, and the muscle
spasms
went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but sure felt a lot better. She
told me she was going to her doctors with this article and would call me
back when she got home.

She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all of his
MS
patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener. In a
nutshell,
she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet soda, dying a slow
death.

When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill, and that
was a pill for poisoning....she is well on her way to recovery!....and
she is walking!!! No wheelchair!!!! This article saved her life! The life
saving article:

If it says "SUGAR FREE," on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! I have
spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on
"ASPARTAME" marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the
keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in
2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, that
it
was hard to understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood
up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of
this
sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to
Formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic
acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants.)
The
methanol toxicity mimics among other conditions multiple sclerosis.
People
were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The
multiple
sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually
does
not know that the aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use,
irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become
life-threatening.
We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic once taken
off
diet sodas. In the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when
in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms
disappear. We've seen many cases where vision returned and hearing
improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus.

During a lecture I said "If you are using ASPARTAME
(NutraSweet, Equal,
Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms,
shooting
pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches,
tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech,
blurred
vision, or memory loss-you probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were
jumping up during the lecture saying, I've got some of these symptoms: Is
it reversible?" Yes, Not drinking diet sodas and keeping an eye out for
aspartame on food labels, yes!
We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of
my speakers) and me and said: "Could you tell me why so many people seem
to
be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that
six
of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed
with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, etc. IS
NOT
A DIET PRODUCT!

The Congressional Record states that it makes you crave carbohydrates and
will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly
no
significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. Roberts in his lecture stated
that he had patient who lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that physicians
would believe that they have a patient with retinopathy, when in fact the
symptoms are caused by aspartame. The aspartame drives the blood sugar
out
of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact
that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the other
amino
acids found in protein. Thus it passes the blood brain barrier and
deteriorates the neurons of the brain, causing in diabetics (as well as
in
patients not suffering from diabetes) various kinds of brain damage,
seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, rage, violence.
(The
Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by
men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the
well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects i.e. mental retardation
if
taken at the time of conception and early pregnancy. Children are
especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NOT be given
NutraSweet. I can relate different case histories of children having mal
seizures and other
disturbances being on NutraSweet.

Unfortunately it is not always easy to convince a mother that aspartame
is
to blame for her child's illness. Only by trial and success will she be
able
to warn other mothers to take their children's health in their own hands.

Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps in the
metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now been
approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA has
outlawed
this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.

Books on this subject are available: EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS -
written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press
1-800-643-2665) and DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - written by DR
H.
J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist. These two doctors will be posting
a
position paper with some case histories on the deadly effects of
Aspartame
on the Internet.

According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians "we are
talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly
poison." Here is the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when
aspartame was included in 100 different products. Since this initial
hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail.
Nothing
has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now
there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENT
HAS
EXPIRED!!!!!
I assure you, MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame knows how deadly it is
They fund among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American
Dietetic Association, the Conference of the American College of
Physicians
This has been exposed in the New York Times - to no avail. These
Associations cannot Criticize any additives or convey their link to
MONSANTO bec! ause they take money from the food industry and have to
endorse their products. Senator Howard Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that
would
have warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers of
aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent studies on the
problems existing in the population
(seizures, changes in brain chemistry, changes neurological and
behavioral;
symptoms). It was killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies,
letting
loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public.
Please print this out or e-mail to family and friends.


realise it...im partial to L&P (lemon & paroa)

I'm addicted to Dr. Pepper. if I can't getmy hands on a Dr. pepper I get one of the generics like Dr. Thunder from Walmart


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I can't stand going for more then two days without a soda. It's kind of how I get through the day. Plus I work in fast food so Im am exposed to soda almost daily.

I used to be addicted to soda but kicked the habit when I went to college, more out of necessity (lack of money) than anything else. I just wish I had done it sooner. I feel so much better than I used to and really have no desire to drink soda anymore. In fact when I have drank soda since I get a headache and cannot even finish the can. I live with four other roommates in an apartment and find it no small coincidence that the two who drink 5 to 6 sodas a day are fat as shit and the ones who drink primarily water aren't. Numerically speaking depending on brand soda has between 100 to 150 calories a can meaning five sodas a day translates to around 600 extra calories per day. Assuming that was all converted to fat and there are 3500 calories in a pound you could save yourself over a pound a week by simply drinking water. For God's sake you might as well be drinking beer. Now I suppose you could drink diet soda but I really think that stuff tastes terrible (except Fresca) and I find the concept of some random sweet but indigestible chemical thats hundreds of times sweeter than sugar and possibly causes cancer a bit disconcerting if not a tad unwholesome. If you need soda for the caffeine grow up and drink some coffee, it's much more effective and they're working wonders with teeth whitening technologies these days.

Those of us blessed with stupidly high metabolisms need not worry about calories. I can drink 2 litres of Pepsi in a day and not gain a single ounce.

So you have a black hole in your stomach where the food goes, because if you drink 2 liters, you are two liters heavier ;)

Yeh, i bought it off ebay. Just swallow and never worry about weight again.

But ill rephrase, My body doesnt turn any of the sugar into fat :)

*scrolling down a webpage while throwing out a dieting book*

#$@^@#$%@#$% where is the stupid thing! BID BID!!!!