Tom Toles for September 09, 2019

Diet is great if I want diabetic shock, it REALLY messes me up.

After drinking diet for so many years regular soda makes me gag.

How is it that Drumphy still walks among us? Is he some kind of a zombie?

soda not so much, but coffee is to die for….

He’s not so bad. There is that choice in the middle, the empty glass.

Read about the Israeli double-blind study on how artificial sweeteners cause diabetes, as published in Nature mag.

Most of the food and drink that we truly enjoy is a COLA in one way or other. Often the things we like have no nutritional value but please the palate. I now have soda one day a year but we used to have several quarts of soda delivered twice a month in the ’50s perhaps to offset having liver once a week? Things change as we learn more about ourselves and our environment … yet some look to the future while others look to the past

I’m sticking with coffee.

Ditch all soda.. do your part to reduce pollution (and climate change) and drink water out of a fountain or the taps over your kitchen sink

Okay, I suppose Cuba Libres are out. What about ginger ale and club soda? /s

And we KNOW that Diet Coke causes brain damage…

What about carbonated water? No flavour, no colouring, nothing other than the bubbles?

No amount of sugar in your diet – or anything in your lifestyle – has caused or can cause you to get Type 1 diabetes. With Type 2 diabetes, though we know sugar doesn’t directly cause Type 2 diabetes, you are more likely to get it if you are overweight.

I bought a soda at a Seattle BBQ place, I was charged an extra dollar in ‘soda tax’.

Don’t forget cirrhosis of the liver…

i used to down a litre or two of cola a day just to keep awake on the commute home after work (needed the caffeine- can’t drink coffee.) It played hell with my dentition. Fortunately, my blood glucose levels didn’t spike and are still pretty reasonable considering my general diet. i cut out about 90% of my soda intake and bonus was i lost about 10lbs.

YMMV

I’m on the wagon since my doctor mentioned the possibility of diabetes. I cut sodas and juices (once in a while, I have a sip of my wife’s Coke, or a half glass of OJ at a breakfast buffet when I’m on vacation) and did what I could to reduce other sugars. It seems to be working: Nobody’s mentioning the D word any more. Been doing it long enough now that it seems more or less normal, and pop now sometimes tastes odd to me.

I seem to drink about a six-pack a year now. As long as it feels like a treat, I don’t think I’ll try to quit completely.

The guy behind the counter looks like Dick Chaney…..!

I’m going to die. Not a startling statement. :-) Began drinking sugar Coke when strong enough to hold a glass bottle on my own. Then switched to diet colas when they came out. Now I drink wine.

I drink herbal tea. (Of course, Herb tends to get mad at me when I do that……….)

I grew up drinking colas. In the south it was mandatory, it seemed. Never thought twice about it. Gradually lost interest. Luckily i’ve always had access to clean water.

I’m a regular Coca-Cola addict, my body likes it and misses it when I don’t drink it.

Occasionally I hear people say that we should always oppose addiction in all its forms, whenever, wherever, and to whomever it occurs. I then ask what they mean by “addiction”, and they usually say something like “It’s a chemical dependency that people develop a physical need for, to the point where they will spends lots of money or even steal or kill to get it, and which has terrible effects up to and including death if they can’t get it.” Then I put on my simpleton face and ask “Oh, you mean like water and oxygen?”

sweet!

Green tea (at least 5 small cups/day) has been shown to increase the lifespan of those who report drinking that much versus folks who drink black tea or coffee (or less than 5 cups). Soda pop regardless of formulation has been associated w/ poorer health for those who drink one or more 12-oz servings per day. On average.

Me, I’m drinking green tea and diet soda, hoping they’ll offset each other.

Or you can buy soda with sugar instead of corn syrup.