Fizzy Drinks...Am i addicted? Shock me into quitting.
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I think I drink far too much fizzy drinks. VERY rarely go a day without a few glasses of full fat coke or a bottle or 3 of orange fizzy lucozade, anything fizzy always goes down a treat.
On occasion when im dossing around the house, i might go a whole day without having a water based drink.
Sometimes i think i am getting headache and after a glass of fizzy drink i feel much better.
I fear i am starting to rely/become addicted to the fizzy stuff and i am really starting to worry about its long term impact on my health.
Im 20 and in good general health and keep fit through cycling and a physical job. I don't drink tea of coffee and find squash a bit dull.
I am slim and have never had any trouble with my weight and can generally eat and drink what i want and not worry (although i do expect this to change) but overal i do eat healthy but often find myself relying on fizzy drinks and find myself using them as a pick me up.
My job gives a very easy access to CHEAP cans of pop and such like and i often have to spend most of the day handling/moving the stuff around, so its always on my mind.
I recall an article in Tuesday's Daily Fail about the dangers of fizzy drinks.
Headlines include,
"Weight Gain and long term health problems"
"Causes muscles to change their behaviour, perhaps permanently"
"Metabolism becomes less efficient and less able to cope with rise in blood sugar levels"
"Type 2 Diabetes"
"Men who drink a 12oZ can of sugar sweetened drink every day can have a 20% higher risk of heart disease"
"Just two 330ml drinks a day can DOUBLE chances of pancreatic cancer"
So my question is, what damage am i really doing to my body, let alone my teeth.
Shock me into giving up or cutting down.
On occasion when im dossing around the house, i might go a whole day without having a water based drink.
Sometimes i think i am getting headache and after a glass of fizzy drink i feel much better.
I fear i am starting to rely/become addicted to the fizzy stuff and i am really starting to worry about its long term impact on my health.
Im 20 and in good general health and keep fit through cycling and a physical job. I don't drink tea of coffee and find squash a bit dull.
I am slim and have never had any trouble with my weight and can generally eat and drink what i want and not worry (although i do expect this to change) but overal i do eat healthy but often find myself relying on fizzy drinks and find myself using them as a pick me up.
My job gives a very easy access to CHEAP cans of pop and such like and i often have to spend most of the day handling/moving the stuff around, so its always on my mind.
I recall an article in Tuesday's Daily Fail about the dangers of fizzy drinks.
Headlines include,
"Weight Gain and long term health problems"
"Causes muscles to change their behaviour, perhaps permanently"
"Metabolism becomes less efficient and less able to cope with rise in blood sugar levels"
"Type 2 Diabetes"
"Men who drink a 12oZ can of sugar sweetened drink every day can have a 20% higher risk of heart disease"
"Just two 330ml drinks a day can DOUBLE chances of pancreatic cancer"
So my question is, what damage am i really doing to my body, let alone my teeth.
Shock me into giving up or cutting down.
Words on a forum cannot adequately shock. So just sit back and enjoy your sugar fixes until your body eventually and inevitably malfunctions in a progressive agonising degenerative death that will take some 20 years to run it's course in a multitude of increasingly debilatating pains, complaints, spasms, tingles, twitches, smells and publically embarrassing loss of bodily functional control.
And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
Edited by mattikake on Friday 3rd August 22:24
I worked for Yahoo for 6 months. We got drinks for free from the vending machines. All rubbishy soft drinks.
I went from having perfect teeth (I'd never had a filling) to requiring 5 in that time, and have had loads more problems since.
I'd estimate these "free" soft drinks have cost me £2,000+ and counting in dental bills quite aside from any other effect they had on me.
My dentist asked me what the hell I'd done to myself.
I went from having perfect teeth (I'd never had a filling) to requiring 5 in that time, and have had loads more problems since.
I'd estimate these "free" soft drinks have cost me £2,000+ and counting in dental bills quite aside from any other effect they had on me.
My dentist asked me what the hell I'd done to myself.
mattikake said:
Words on a forum cannot shock. So just sit back and enjoy your sugar fixes until your body eventually and inevitably malfunctions in a progressive agonising degenerative death that will take some 20 years to run it's course in a multitude of increasingly debilatating pains, complaints, spasms, tingles, twitches, smells and publically embarrassing loss of bodily functional control.
And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
If natural selection were in action, he'd probably be faster, and therefore safer, than everyone else due to his high intake of 'sports' drinks.And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
If you are thinking about trying the sugar free versions. (And in some cases the regular versions)
http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects....
http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects....
mattikake said:
Words on a forum cannot adequately shock. So just sit back and enjoy your sugar fixes until your body eventually and inevitably malfunctions in a progressive agonising degenerative death that will take some 20 years to run it's course in a multitude of increasingly debilatating pains, complaints, spasms, tingles, twitches, smells and publically embarrassing loss of bodily functional control.
And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
Carefully does it there paragon of virtue. Karma may fAnd remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
Edited by mattikake on Friday 3rd August 22:24
k you up in ways totally at odds with your perception of yourself. 
Couldn't make the connection between a can containing the equivalent of 8 teaspoons of sugar and turning into a beached whale either 
Munter said:
If you are thinking about trying the sugar free versions. (And in some cases the regular versions)
http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects....
1) Most of what's written about Aspartame is regurgitating repeatedly discredited and disproven bunk which has spectacularly failed to stand up to repeated scientific scrutiny. http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects....
2) The woman responsible for that website makes a great deal of money selling quackery like hair analysis based diet advice and aspartame detox programmes to idiots willing to believe her special blend of quackery. She's about on par with the retards who buy and sell homeopathy crap, which she also does.
Believe what you like of course, but if you're a fan of her work you'll be over the moon when you discover Kent Hovind.
Edited by Stu R on Friday 3rd August 23:36
stevensdrs said:
Doesn't contain "carbonic acid". It does contain Carbonated water and Citric Acid and my teeth are perfect after 50+ years of poisoning myself with it. 
Carbonic acid is formed when carbon dioxide is dissolved in water - all carbonated drinks contain it, even plain carbonated water.Also most colas (including coke) have phosphoric acid in too so that's more acid. And of course the sugar causes plaque in the mouth to produce more acid.
mattikake said:
Words on a forum cannot adequately shock. So just sit back and enjoy your sugar fixes until your body eventually and inevitably malfunctions in a progressive agonising degenerative death that will take some 20 years to run it's course in a multitude of increasingly debilatating pains, complaints, spasms, tingles, twitches, smells and publically embarrassing loss of bodily functional control.
And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
That ought to do it And remember, as you final painful breaths come, there's fitties like me sat here, laughing. Ohhhh yes, laughing. At your inability to take responsibility for your choices. We need people like you to die. Natural selection is not allowed to function properly any more, so we cannot watch you get eaten quickly by a predator from the safety of the branches of a tree, we just have to hope you slowly fall foul to your stupidity.
If you're lucky, I'll take a dump on your gave.
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