In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it "might induce brain tumors."-On the same subject, I highly recommend the documentary Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World on the history of Aspartame, it's toxicity to humans, and how Donald Rumsfeld & co pushed it past the FDA using fraud and misrepresented research.
The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (currently the Secretary of Defense) vow to "call in his markers," to get it approved.
Babies are born with a sweet tooth. Human milk is quite sweet, so a child begins life making the connection between eating, drinking, and pleasure.The La Leche League must be responsible for our obesity epidemic!
A study reported by the Harvard School of Public Health showed that consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages such as cola was associated with an overall greater daily caloric intake, which may lead to weight gain and has been shown to increase the risk of obesity. This increased consumption is thought to arise from liquids not being as filling as solid foods. Therefore, even though colas are calorie-dense, they do not satisfy your appetite, so you tend to eat more food in addition to drinking the calorie-dense beverage.Or are you arguing that diet soda has hidden calories?
Months later, I finally drank a Coke and it was like swallowing a bowl of sugar. It was gross.Yeah I can't stand full non-diet colas. Something like a sugared sprite or sunkist lemonade or something like that can taste pretty good (less of the artificial sweetener bitterness) but at the same time it just feels kind of gross to drink that much sugar.
How many glasses of water should you drink every day?In conclusion, diet soda tastes awful, but that's just my opinion.
Eight is too many.
You lose water every second of the day through excreting, sweating or simply breathing, so you need to take in liquid to avoid becoming dehydrated. But the advice that you should drink eight glasses of water a day is just plain wrong.
In 1945 a British Medical Journal report advised that adults should consume 2.5 litres of water daily but specified that 'most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods'. In the sixty years since, this important final sentence seems to have fallen by the wayside. A normal diet contains enough embedded water for us, theoretically, not to need to drink anything at all.
Drinking lots of glasses of water on top of your normal consumption of food and drink will only make you urinate more.
It's often said that drinking water is good for flushing out your system and keeping your skin blemish-free, but the evidence is patchy. Your kidneys may be helped to remove excess salt in the short term but unless you've been overdosing on crisps (or alcohol) there is no particular benefit. Chronic dehydration makes your skin drier and more elastic, but taking in extra water won't remove your wrinkles and it's unlikely to stop you from getting spots.
Treating dehydration involves more than just water. You need to replace sugar and salts as well, so try eating watermelons. They're rich in sugar, as well as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium. Papaya's good, too, as are coconut, cucumber and celery.
The salts and sugars are necessary because they help transport the water around the body. If you find watermelons spoil the line of your safari suit, you can buy sachets of rehydration powders from chemists and travel agents. Those contain glucose and salts - but you'll still need to source your own water to dissolve them in - which is where watermelons win: they're 92 percent water.
Too much water, on the other hand, can be lethal. 'Water intoxication' or hyponatremia (from Greek hypo, 'under', Latin natrium, 'sodium', and Greek haima, 'blood') is caused by over-dilution of essential body salts. Excess water is expelled from the blood into other cells, which then expand and rupture - leading to nausea, headaches, disorientation and, eventually, death.
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