|
GTIAlex
Original Poster
376 posts
36 months
|
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.
|
|
|
Driller
5,240 posts
148 months
|
It's disgusting, artificial crap. Just stop drinking it. Does it not bother you that your desires and decisions are being controlled by a can of f  king sodapop?
|
|
|
GTIAlex
Original Poster
376 posts
36 months
|
Driller said: It's disgusting, artificial crap. Just stop drinking it. Does it not bother you that your desires and decisions are being controlled by a can of f king sodapop? Yes, yes it does. Hence this topic.
|
|
|
Driller
5,240 posts
148 months
|
So are you going to stop then? 
|
|
|
Flibble
1,090 posts
51 months
|
The sugar and acidity trash your tooth enamel.
The sugar plays havoc with your insulin system - you do not want to get type 2 diabetes!
They're empty calories that you could be eating something nice for.
|
Advertisement
|
|
|
stevensdrs
464 posts
70 months
|
Drink the sugar free fizzy drinks like I do. I get through 20 litres a week with no ill effects.
|
|
|
DocJock
2,808 posts
110 months
|
Wrong. It's damaging your teeth. It's not the sugar that causes the damage, but the carbonic acid.
|
|
|
dave_s13
8,437 posts
139 months
|
|
|
essexplumber
7,286 posts
43 months
|
I have 2-3 cans of Diet Coke a day, it bloats me out and makes me fart and burp like a viking.
|
|
|
mattikake
4,057 posts
69 months
|
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.
|
|
|
0a
8,528 posts
64 months
|
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.
|
|
|
didelydoo
2,203 posts
80 months
|
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.
|
|
|
Munter
23,827 posts
111 months
|
|
|
dave_s13
8,437 posts
139 months
|
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 f k you up in ways totally at odds with your perception of yourself.
|
|
|
stevensdrs
464 posts
70 months
|
DocJock said: Wrong. It's damaging your teeth. It's not the sugar that causes the damage, but the carbonic acid. 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. 
|
|
|
Terminator X
2,275 posts
74 months
|
Man up & drink water you bloater!
TX.
|
|
|
Ken Sington
3,591 posts
108 months
|
My dumbass sister in law ended up in the Priory to break her addiction to full fat Coke after she ended up averaging 14 cans of the stuff a day!  Couldn't make the connection between a can containing the equivalent of 8 teaspoons of sugar and turning into a beached whale either 
|
|
|
Stu R
19,585 posts
85 months
|
Munter said: 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. 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.
|
|
|
Flibble
1,090 posts
51 months
|
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.
|
|
|
Driller
5,240 posts
148 months
|
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 
|
|
