Are you a Soft drink mom or a Soda pop?

Whatever you call your carbonated drink really doesn't matter. What really matters is how much of it you drink, and if it is regular or diet. Diet sodas are the worst of the two for your health. The sweetener Aspartaime should have never been approved by the FDA. It causes a lot of health problems. Headaches, possibly Diabetes, and believe it or not, just the opposite of what you are trying to do by drinking it...gaining weight. When I see someone eating a fattening kind of meal with a diet drink, I just shake my head and wonder what exactly is up with that. I know that it's obviously an attempt at trying to balance calories. But it seems so wrong. Kind of like trying to cheat at something. The thing is, you aren;t cheating anybody but yourself. Regular sodas aren't much better than diet. The High Fructose Corn Syrup{HFCS} that is used to make it sweet is pretty bad for our health too. You probably have seen commercials on tv that support HFCS, and say that it isn't bad for you in moderation. HFCS is metabolized in your body just like Alcohol. They both are processed by the Liver. That should give you a clue about how healthy it is for you. To end this post on the bright side, there is good news. You could easily lose up to 5 pounds a month by not drinking sodas.