Stop drinking soda, trust me

[Socreta93]

I don't have diabetes but I have what you can consider pre while also needed to be monitored closely. I had a glucose monitor sample for 2 weeks and I can track how my sugar is throughout the day. I stopped soda in the beginning of April and the results are amazing. My sugar levels improved dramatically, I sleep better and I loss weight. I met my endocrinologist on Monday and thankfully she told me I didn't need any medication since everything has been improving. I've had times I stopped but for the last few months I drank almost once a day. I stopped cold turkey and it's brought great results. Just drink water, you will be fine. Obviously stuff like junk food and sweets are bad but soda you should stop drinking.

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

I don't have diabetes but I have what you can consider pre while also needed to be monitored closely. I had a glucose monitor sample for 2 weeks and I can track how my sugar is throughout the day. I stopped soda in the beginning of April and the results are amazing. My sugar levels improved dramatically, I sleep better and I loss weight. I met my endocrinologist on Monday and thankfully she told me I didn't need any medication since everything has been improving. I've had times I stopped but for the last few months I drank almost once a day. I stopped cold turkey and it's brought great results. Just drink water, you will be fine. Obviously stuff like junk food and sweets are bad but soda you should stop drinking.

I agree wholeheartedly!
There are also trace nutrients and some other steps that have been helpful to many.
It sounds like you have taken steps in the right direction and making progress.
What you did is what I wish everyone else would do too. My heart goes out to the diabetics who are addicted to sugar and even artificially sweetened beverages. It's a major challenge for many.

I hope your thread encourages others.

 

[Tall_Timbers]

Diet pepsi is my drink. I stopped drinking the soda with sugar in it a long time ago. I expect I'll go to the grave drinking diet cola.

 

[Godsgirl1983]

I hope your thread encourages others.

🙋 it has.
I'll consider this a sign, or a confirmation.
I was just thinking about this very thing last night.
I've cut it out cold turkey before, and the longest I have gone without has been 32 days.
I do notice a difference just from cutting that out, and it's time to do it again.

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

🙋 it has.
I'll consider this a sign, or a confirmation.
I was just thinking about this very thing last night.
I've cut it out cold turkey before, and the longest I have gone without has been 32 days.
I do notice a difference just from cutting that out, and it's time to do it again.

Excellent!
I love how God does that in perfect timing.

Something I suggest in consultations is to replace the craving for carbonated beverages with something healthy, yet tastes better.
That's the positive incentive.

Keep up the good work. By God's grace may you continue to overcome.
🍵🙂👍

 

[Godsgirl1983]

Excellent!
I love how God does that in perfect timing.

Something I suggest in consultations is to replace the craving for carbonated beverages with something healthy, yet tastes better.
That's the positive incentive.

Keep up the good work. By God's grace may you continue to overcome.
🍵🙂👍

It's a lot easier when I'm able to hit the gym or otherwise workout and eat better.

The hard part is when 1 healthy habit lacks, the rest quickly follow

being sick sucks (head cold, or something similar) but at least it means several days (I think I'm up to 4 or 5) without soda of choice (I don't count 7up or ginger ale since they are never "problems" as far as consumption when well) and due to already feeling like the withdrawal symptoms/pains are not noticeable.

I always try to see the good in things, so I guess right now being ill it's that there is no desire for soda of choice, and no withdrawal pains.

 

[shittim]

there are sparkling waters that are bubbly, flavored, inexpensive and best of all, not poison!

 

[Penny]

I mostly drink water. Sometimes I drink lemon water. I rarely drink soda.

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

🙋 it has.
I'll consider this a sign, or a confirmation.
I was just thinking about this very thing last night.
I've cut it out cold turkey before, and the longest I have gone without has been 32 days.
I do notice a difference just from cutting that out, and it's time to do it again.

Here's a documentary that I was reminded of.
A good friend thought that a better option to high fructose corn syrup, which contains high levels of Mercury, would be diet soda pop.
He has severe type 2, unhealed wounds and cognitive issues. Diet drinks are no better.
They are marketed as the healthy alternatives. Once we learn that every ingredient is toxic, it helps with the temptations when we go to the store.
Perhaps others will benefit from this.

 

[iamsoandso]

Here's a documentary that I was reminded of. ll
A good friend thought that a better option to high fructose corn syrup, which contains high levels of Mercury, would be diet soda pop.
He has severe type 2, unhealed wounds and cognitive issues. Diet drinks are no better.
They are marketed as the healthy alternatives. Once we learn that every ingredient is toxic, it helps with the temptations when we go to the store.
Perhaps others will benefit from this.

Way more than just sodas,,,they use HFCS in all sorts of products because although it is not a narcotic that gives a high it is still is more addictive than cocaine to your body,(brain). It's that snackie feeling you get even though you just ate or drank something,,but it didn't hit the spot so you keep looking for something else to snack on...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746720/

 

[iamsoandso]

High Fructose Corn Syrup(HFCS) impacts brain function(learning,memory,food intake ect.) ,,,,everyone's chasing the rabbit trail of Covid vaccines and the whole time their re-programing your brains with your food supply,lol ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746720/

 

[iamsoandso]

Honeybees convert nectar(sugars) into honey,royal nectar,bee bread ect. ,,,,That's God's natural sugars though... On the other hand man made HFCS and the bees harvest the sugars from the soda cans and end up with CCD,,,hmm the stuff kills both man and insects, must be really bad stuff ... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...nsible-for-bees-collapsing-colonies-46859095/

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

Way more than just sodas,,,they use HFCS in all sorts of products because although it is not a narcotic that gives a high it is still is more addictive than cocaine to your body,(brain). It's that snackie feeling you get even though you just ate or drank something,,but it didn't hit the spot so you keep looking for something else to snack on...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746720/

That's for sure.
I have spent a lot of time hoping to find plain ingredients reading hundreds of labels of processed foods. That hfcs is a very damaging ingredient that we can do without. That narrows the shopping list to other options.

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

Honeybees convert nectar(sugars) into honey,royal nectar,bee bread ect. ,,,,That's God's natural sugars though... On the other hand man made HFCS and the bees harvest the sugars from the soda cans and end up with CCD,,,hmm the stuff kills both man and insects, must be really bad stuff ... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...nsible-for-bees-collapsing-colonies-46859095/

There are a lot of bee keepers who feed the cheap corn syrup to their colonies.
That would cause health issues with them as well as with people who feed on much of it.
I know a famous entomologist who discovered a non synthetic way to kill the honey bee mites.
Next time I see him I'll try to remember to ask him what he thinks of this article. I have to say that it makes sense to me.
I think the mites are a symptom rather than the sole cause.

This is a very serious problem in health care too. They tube feed the malnourished sick, immunocompromised patients in the hospitals ingredients like this and add a dozen drugs to modulate the symptoms.
That makes the hospitals fortunes in man hours charges, drugs and equipment used before they often kill the people who went to them for help. God's people are way too dependent upon the Godless systems of this world. They were established and continue for the love of money, which is the root of all evil.

 

[iamsoandso]

That's for sure.
I have spent a lot of time hoping to find plain ingredients reading hundreds of labels of processed foods. That hfcs is a very damaging ingredient that we can do without. That narrows the shopping list to other options.

yep me too,,, the narrow list(especially for a diabetic) means looking real close at sugar numbers before eating things made with processed grains(think pizza crust,fish sticks,white bread,cereal,noodles,potatoes or the deadly menu at a fast food restaurant)=sugar/A1c's gotta be low to eat that stuff,lol....
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Thing is HFCS is in the processed things made from "bleached white flour",so hamburger buns,hot dog buns,pizza dough,breading on frozen foods,cereals ect. ....There's several types of diabetes and some can be controlled by diet and not others so one size don't fit all so to speak. Myself I don't have diabetes but three people in my family do or did have it(one has passed away). It's more like "want me to cook a hamburger?",,,"hmm whats your sugar darling?",,,,"94",,,,,"hmm sounds great..."...

 

[iamsoandso]

There are a lot of bee keepers who feed the cheap corn syrup to their colonies.
That would cause health issues with them as well as with people who feed on much of it.
I know a famous entomologist who discovered a non synthetic way to kill the honey bee mites.
Next time I see him I'll try to remember to ask him what he thinks of this article. I have to say that it makes sense to me.
I think the mites are a symptom rather than the sole cause.

This is a very serious problem in health care too. They tube feed the malnourished sick, immunocompromised patients in the hospitals ingredients like this and add a dozen drugs to modulate the symptoms.
That makes the hospitals fortunes in man hours charges, drugs and equipment used before they often kill the people who went to them for help. God's people are way too dependent upon the Godless systems of this world. They were established and continue for the love of money, which is the root of all evil.

I wish I knew how to deal with varroa mites here in Texas without treatments,,,,lol

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

I wish I knew how to deal with varroa mites here in Texas without treatments,,,,lol

Are you a bee keeper?

 

[iamsoandso]

Are you a bee keeper?

not this year,lol.. I had two hives that made it through last winter but were so small they could not make it even after combining them. I'm not planning on keeping them anymore unless I just catch a swarm. In southeast Texas there's the climate change issue most don't believe in,, (but the bees sure do,lol)... One of my neighbors is about a mile from me and has about 50 hives but he has to feed them all summer in the droughts so the honey is not true honey(sugar water). Over the last 15 or so years we may be in a drought year after year and then the la nina years come and it rains way too much(were about 20 inches above ARF already) and so V-mites,S.H. beetles and wax moths come out of the woodwork. Anyway very large population hives that are using medications and being fed seem ok but as for me just having a few backyard hives I don't see doing it anymore for a 2 frame,5 frame and 2 ten frame hive set up.

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

not this year,lol.. I had two hives that made it through last winter but were so small they could not make it even after combining them. I'm not planning on keeping them anymore unless I just catch a swarm. In southeast Texas there's the climate change issue most don't believe in,, (but the bees sure do,lol)... One of my neighbors is about a mile from me and has about 50 hives but he has to feed them all summer in the droughts so the honey is not true honey(sugar water). Over the last 15 or so years we may be in a drought year after year and then the la nina years come and it rains way too much(were about 20 inches above ARF already) and so V-mites,S.H. beetles and wax moths come out of the woodwork. Anyway very large population hives that are using medications and being fed seem ok but as for me just having a few backyard hives I don't see doing it anymore for a 2 frame,5 frame and 2 ten frame hive set up.

One thing seems constant. The weather/ climate always changes. I don't think that you or your beef steaks have anything to do with it though.

Those hives take a lot of time. It's no wonder the price is now unaffordable for many when the keepers have so many challenges and the retailers have so much mark up. I used to buy it by the gallon when I had beekeeper friends. Only one stayed with it. It's a lot more work than most realize.
The unfiltered wildflower honey is awesome.


Someone here should be able to provide the mite killer recipe.

 

[tourist]

there are sparkling waters that are bubbly, flavored, inexpensive and best of all, not poison!

I'm a fan of Perrier. The lemon flavored one is good too. Don't drink much pop but occasionally a can of Orange Crush. Squirt is good too. My usual cold beverage of choice is lemonade. And, of course, coffee.