Those "Natural" Soft Drinks -- Are They Really?

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Komic Kaze — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:32:22 GMT

Nothing makes me feel better than sitting down and drinking a diet Coke with vitamins. Mmm mmm...diet coke WITH VITAMINS? Are you kidding me? I haven't had soda for over two years now and even when I did drink it, I was thinking that this really isn't this great. Like, what kind of benefit am I getting from drinking this soda that not only burns my mouth from the fizzing, but is made with chlorine and fluoride -filled water and then they just dump a whole bunch of HFCS or aspartame in it and then sell it. Drink your corn up, people. I drink herbal, green and black teas and water. No sugar. Just plain old teas. I'm trying to get off my addiction to refined sugars, but they're everywhere in everything. But I can live without. So can you. Boycott sugar and aspartame. They are nothing but poor substitutes for real natural sugars found in fruits, preferably wild fruits, not this hybridized crop we see all the time. Go for it.

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Ultra Mind and Body — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:42:05 GMT

OH MY - yes PLEASE READ ingredient labels before buying anything that even appears to be healthy. If there is something in the ingredients that you can't pronounce, then it is probably not a very natural product.

The less ingredients in a product the better and we all should know by know that HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP is an ingredient in almost everything manufactured and we should reduce or better yet cut these products out of our diet.

Think back to just 50 years ago - fresh fruits & vegetables were staples along with a meal. FRESH being the key word.
http://www.ultramindandbody.com

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schnickelfritz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:13:38 GMT

Notig's point on craving fermented foods: I like that idea because I believe people really did consume a lot of this kind of thing in ther very distant past.

Naturally sparkling water is a viable alternative, if you can find it at a reasonable price. I have found that the Klarbrunn brand is excellent! It contains only natural sparkling water and natural flavoring. I don't mean to advertise for them, but you can check it out for yourself at this link:
http://www.klarbrunn.com/docs/sparkling.htm I think it's something good to drink if you just want something besides water, coffee or tea.

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Patty D — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:58:09 GMT

I'm confused. I said this with another article the other day. I see tons of negative points given to people who are agreeing with the article. I see absolutely no reason for these negative points. I'm fairly new here, maybe someone can explain (or will I get a negative rating for asking)?

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chakra — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:01:03 GMT

I love the way she says "vitamins"...too cute!

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jsschell — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:25:38 GMT

Hi there, my first post. I was adverse to having to give my personal info just to comment, but...
I thought she could have gone a bit further into the ingredients & listed a few more drinks, then offered a few easy, money saving, homemade options to carry to work, school or wherever. I don't use any of those products, but for people who are new to this site & it's newsletter, I would have thought a bit more information would have been helpful.
I did find some imformative posts from the comments though. I am off to try the leached egg calcium lemonade!

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meeneecat — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:46:46 GMT

I want to make an important point about the implications of the advertising and marketing of products such as fast food and sugary drinks. For a long time I've been reading publications put out by the independent, non-profit, media organization called Adbusters. I'm not trying to promote them or anything, but I wanted to bring up something I realized by hearing about Adbuster's efforts to counter these million dollar marketing Goliaths. Adbusters has proposed ads to certain mainstream media outlets that truthfuly reveal the connection between fast food/sugary food and obesity. Many people don't realize the power that that BIG advertising can have which is why I think that the work this organization is doing is important. I started to think about the connection between BIG conglomerate media outlets, billion dollar marketing budgets and the huge industries that profit off things like Coke and McDonalds (etc.) Literally they are spending millions on ads which only seek to profit off us by getting us to buy unhealthy products that in turn have only been adding to our obesity and health woes - it's a no win situation for us, yet the few at the top make billions. I asked myself questions like "Gee, I wonder what the world would be like if these billions of dollars were spent on say, public health, education, or conservation." Of course Adbusters doesn't have a million dollars to spend on their socially responsible ads, they raised the money through public fundraising and member donations - just for the opportunity to run one ad. Little to my surprise, their ads (which you can see on their website: http://www.adbusters.org/memewars/ ) have been met with great resistance by media outlets who have refused to run the ads. I am not surprised that many of the social problems including poor health & obesity continue to get worse despite overwhelming scientific knowledge that these products are bad - especially when important information is continually supressed.

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jalp — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:59:54 GMT

Is Tropicana OK?

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labrat — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:54:23 GMT

One of my favorite scams is "Vitamin water" - they sell it at Walmart.

Google it on the web and see how many people are downright "addicted" to the stuff and convinced it's "healthier" than soda.

Marketing at it's very best.

The stuff is selling so well, Coke want's to buy them out.

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Russ Bianchi — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:59:11 GMT

HFCS not only converts to triglycerides and fat in the body triggering obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, cardio vascular disease, but as the Wall Street Journal reported, on page one last year, Mexican bottled Coke, made with real cane sugar (which taste much better) out sells less expensive HFCS sweetened Coke, even with a higher price, in the USA.

HFCS REMAIN A SYNTHETIC AND CHEMICAL INGREDIENT OF HARMFUL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES CONSUMED AT ANY LEVEL.

there is no such thing a 'fructose' derived from a natural source, it's a made up name trying to pretend it's levulose, but really chemically refined from starch (corn, wheat, or beet).

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ekw — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:39:02 GMT

Brilliant, of course. Unless you have been on Mars, any subscriber to this web site should know that high fructose corn syrup is Uuuukkkccc!! disgusting, revolting, and UNHEALTHY as giggling Satan. Great to direct those of us to randomly comment to silly shoppers in line with us about labels to say the most intelligent and relevant thing right off the bat. However, shopping at Trader Joe's, while not perfect, does help to reduce the amount of hyped products one is inundated with at stores such as "WHOLE PAYCHECK" (you know who I mean) who I am stuck with shopping at once in a blue moon for RAW MILK. Thanks for the well-spoken revelations.

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veggienut — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:52:20 GMT

At a recent nutrition talk I was giving, I warned the group about the dangers of falsely advertised artificial sweeteners, Aspartame being the worst. At the end of my talk, a gentleman in his 50's started shaking his head frustratedly. I asked if he had a question, or if there was something I could clarify. He said "I"m so confused! I just lost 60lbs., lowered my B.P. & blood sugar all because I started drinking Diet Coke. Now you're telling me I could die if I keep the stuff in my diet? I don't believe it!" He was convinced that the acute health issues which had turned around recently (we're talking 6 months) were somehow magically healed by the Diet Coke elixir. He told me I couldn't possibly reconcile that with the facts I was teaching against it. I asked him simply: "Sir, were you drinking a lot of regular soda before you switched to diet?" He said "oh yeah..I drink a few 2 liters a day. I gave that up, my daily doughnuts, 2 porkchops & half a plate of mashed potatoes smothered in gravy at dinner and I've added some veggies to my meals as well".
Amazing isn't it? He was such a well-trained Diet Coke consumer that he never thought to give himself credit for those positive changes. Here he was, busting his butt to give up these nasty foods, exercising as well where he hadn't before, but he gave all the credit to Aspartame. Know why? Because he said the only thing his doctor had stressed he do was switch to diet soda; that would make a big difference.

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barbic1953 — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:57:27 GMT

Do you use a whole egg
in lemon juice or just the
whole egg shell ? How
much lemon juice ?

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Goldberry116 — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:04:32 GMT

I don't know why, but whenever I see the words "with other natural flavors" it always raises that invisible red flag in my mind.

What "other natural flavors"? If they're so natural and "harmless" then why don't they just list them individually? *rolling eyes*

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Health and Wealth — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:34:04 GMT

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