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Two upward trends: drinking calories and getting diabetes

By Jim July 24, 2011 2 Comments

U.S. soft drink swilling triples in my lifetime

I was born in a simpler time.  Back then, soda pop was an occasional treat, not an everyday (or twice a day) habit. In 1952, Americans on average drank 11.5 gallons of carbonated, caloric soft drinks per year.  I doubt that I personally accounted for any of 1,786,100,000 gallons of cola, root beer, red pop, etc., produced and consumed in the U.S. that year,  but a decade later, when per capita availability had increased to 14.5 gallons  per year, I was doing my part. I continued drinking my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: CDC, diabetes, diet soda, soda pop, type-2 diabetes, USDA

Make mine water

By Jim June 28, 2011 Leave a Comment

Since going low-carb, I’ve mostly avoided drinking diet pop or making recipes that include artificial sweeteners.  Over the past four months, I’ve downed three bottles of Diet Coke and used three small packets of Stevia (a sugar substitute).  I’ve also bought and consumed a four-pack of an Atkins chocolate milk-shake product that contained an artificial sweetener, the only packaged low-carb treat that I've tried. Otherwise, except for berries, I have forgone sweet flavors. It could be I’m … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News & Commentary, Personal Reflection Tagged With: aspartame, beverages, diet soda, experimental study, observational study

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