Do I need to quit soda?

haych two oh wrote:

yeah la croix wrote:

i stopped drinking it about 9 months ago, i know just drink water, almond milk, or la croix

In other words, you drink water, water, or water.

(mostly a swipe at "almond milk", which my wife insists on buying even though it's just almond-flavored water with almost no protein and little bit of fat)

It's worse than just expensive water. Almond milk has anti nutrients.

Hey Soy Bois. We all are going to die eventually. Live your life as you see fit.

Running 80 miles miles I wouldn't worry about 2-3 cans a day. Just brush your teeth at least twice a day. Now if you stop running then I'd maybe drop that total to 3-4 cans a week.

Lovee it wrote:

I know soda is bad for me but it's so damn good. I drink like 2-3 cans worth of mtn dew every day but run 80 miles per week and am 18 years old. Do you think it has any effect?

Soda is horrible for you. Yes it has an effect. Your bombarding your liver with sh*t 2-3 times a day and your developing a habit that will lead to obesity once you stop running.

With that said, I've had one cup (probably 8oz) of soda in the past three years. It was at mile 22 of the marathon at Ironman Louisville. And it was like someone gave me rocket fuel. I can't believe that sh*t is legal to give children while it's still illegal in a majority of states for a person in their 30s to smoke a bowl. Unreal.

1 or 2 cans a day won’t kill you.

Conclusions and Relevance In this study of adolescent boys with NAFLD, 8 weeks of provision of a diet low in free sugar content compared with usual diet resulted in significant improvement in hepatic steatosis. However, these findings should be considered preliminary and further research is required to assess long-term and clinical outcomes.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2721179

Study showing association between drinking soda and the development of non-alcolic liver steatosis.

Even in young persons.

Reversible by quitting a diet rich in free sugars.

Lovee it wrote:

Yeah I know it's bad for me but it's not as bad as drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes. Besides I'm pretty skinny anyways(6 feet, 138 lbs) so I'm not worried about that.

Google and read up on negative healthy effects of high fructose corn syrup.

After they added this cheaper sugar replacement, is when people started consuming mass quantities of soda.

It creates an addiction.

I love soda, it too is my only vice, and it's Horrible for you. Read it up. I need.to quit again / am I'm the process of quitting again, shifting to masala Chai with honey once per day.

Good luck!

haych two oh wrote:

yeah la croix wrote:

i stopped drinking it about 9 months ago, i know just drink water, almond milk, or la croix

In other words, you drink water, water, or water.

(mostly a swipe at "almond milk", which my wife insists on buying even though it's just almond-flavored water with almost no protein and little bit of fat)

In comparing the various "milks", i did notice that Almond milk tends to be about the lowest in calories.

I went to the dentist today and they told me if I drink a bottle of soda a day and still brush my teeth twice, it won't really effect my teeth.

Why drink soda when there is such a thing as beer.

i don't understand wrote:

Why drink soda when there is such a thing as beer.

Beer is absolutely horrible for your body. I've loved beer for a long time. Have been to a sh*t ton of breweries. But I have given it up almost exclusively for the past year (at most I've had 6 pints in the past 12 months) and could not be happier with how I feel. It's not a religious thing or a 12 step thing. It's a health thing for me. But to each their own.

haych two oh wrote:

yeah la croix wrote:

i stopped drinking it about 9 months ago, i know just drink water, almond milk, or la croix

In other words, you drink water, water, or water.

(mostly a swipe at "almond milk", which my wife insists on buying even though it's just almond-flavored water with almost no protein and little bit of fat)

And what's wrong with almond-flavored water again? I believe most of us here are no longer infants that benefit from milk (preferably their mother's).

seattle prattle wrote:

In comparing the various "milks", i did notice that Almond milk tends to be about the lowest in calories.

Lots of variety in plant-based 'milks' (really 'teas' if you think about it). Almond does tend to be low calories unless you get the sweetened kind. Pea protein milk (Ripple, Bolthouse, Veggemo) is good stuff when I want something more flavorful/creamier. My go-to is coconut, though. So good on cereal or in a smoothie (don't think I've ever drank a glass of it).

Thank you for that review. I've ready about different ones lately like Pea Protein Milk, rice milk, etc., and they sound interesting enough that i wanted to try them.

I used to only drink vanilla soy milk but stopped when a new doc told me i had silent GERD, and researching it, found that Almond milk has a lot less acidity than the others.

If Trump can drink 12 cans of diet coke a day, so can you. Don't give in to the liberal SJW snowflake agenda.

a. Nothing "wrong" with almond-flavored water, I just don't see the point of having tasteless white colored water on my cereal or in my tea. Yuck. Just personal taste.

b. Of course almond-flavored water is lower in calories. It's water.

c. Coconut milk is tasty in things, I've had it in things thousands of times (I lived in the tropics for years, including a few years in south Asia), but it's yucky as a substitute for milk.

stateroftheoblivious wrote:

Lowering sugar intake has helped a lot of athletes.

https://www.stack.com/a/how-denver-nuggets-star-nikola-jokic-dropped-30-pounds-and-transformed-his-bodyhttps://www.zagsblog.com/2016/10/25/seton-hall-freshman-myles-powell-dropped-45-pounds-ready-go/

What the actual hell. I used to drink a lot of soda, like 3 - 5 cans a day, but how the s*** do you get to 2 - 3 gallons a day. No wonder he dropped 30 pounds. That's approximately 21 - 32 cans a day.

But on topic, I don't think you should worry too much. If you're drinking enough water then you should be fine. You should probably dial it back as you get older though. But at 18, you're fine. When I was 18 I was at 3 - 5 cans (more or less since I ate at the dining hall in college and got refills from the machines), but now I'm 27 and down to about 3 - 4 cans a week. However, I only run about 40 miles a week. If I ran as much as OP I'd probably have another can or two

haych two oh wrote:

a. Nothing "wrong" with almond-flavored water, I just don't see the point of having tasteless white colored water on my cereal or in my tea. Yuck. Just personal taste.

b. Of course almond-flavored water is lower in calories. It's water.

c. Coconut milk is tasty in things, I've had it in things thousands of times (I lived in the tropics for years, including a few years in south Asia), but it's yucky as a substitute for milk.

I missed this response last week but this is always a fun topic so I'll dredge it back up.

a. I can't argue personal taste. But almond 'milk' either has almond flavor or is tasteless. Hard to be both. I like its subtle flavor on my cereal. I also like the stronger flavors of coconut, pea, cashew, or even macadamia nut milk on my cereal.

b. Is tea also water in your opinion? How about skim milk?

c. I don't use coconut milk as a 1:1 substitute for cow's milk. I'm not a baby calf after all. There are plant-based 'milks' that come pretty close to cows' milk in overall nutritional content if that's your thing:

[quote]let us do some math wrote:

12 x 3 = 36 x 170 = 510 calories

80 miles a week works out to about 11.43 miles per day

You are burning about a thousand calories a day running

That must be Letsrun math you are doing. ???