FLYLADY: Food For Thought: An interesting Study on Soda?

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I don't know who Flylady is.

 

I was on Flylady's mailing list for a long time. She is an efficiency expert and teaches you how to get rid of clutter in your house (and in your life). She sends out a tons of e-mails everyday telling you what you need to do to keep the house organized and clutter-free. E-mails like: "grab a trashbag right now and put on a timer for 5 min. and go through the living room getting rid of anything you don't need". Her last e-mail of the night is always to "wash all the dishes and then shine the sink". Each day she specifies a room that you are assigned to clean..bedroom, kitchen, porch, etc. She is also interested in keeping the body healthy with the right foods. I had to unsub because there were just so many e-mails each day and I wasn't keeping up with her chores! ;-).

 

Gloria

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I don't know who Flylady is. A friend forwarded this to me this morning, and since we have been discussing soft drinks I thought I would share. At the end of the article is a link where you can read the study.

 

 

Irene

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The following is something I got from FlyLady today..I found it VERY interesting....

Good reading....

Dear Friends,A lot of you know that I am pretty much a stickler when it comes todeciding what to drink. The answer is always water and plenty of it. Iget asked a lot about drinks—particularly, diet drinks, sodas, juices,etc. Everyone wants to drink something else besides water, especiallynow that summer is here!Well, I understand that. I drink coffee in the morning, so it's notlike I don't understand what it is to have a particular fondness for aspecial beverage. But when it comes to drinking something with a meal,you gotta go for water. And water in-between meals, too. Water itselfis a nutrient in that it helps your body run optimally and helps youto absorb the nutrients you've taken via your food. Important stuff, H20. A brand, spanking new study just came out implicating sodas in weightgain—both regular AND diet sodas! Now listen, I know it's summer and Iknow sodas go on sale in supermarket all the time right now and I knowyou like them. But bear with me for minute. You have to read thesestatistics!The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio ran aneight year study to study the effects of soft drink use. Sharon P.Fowler, MPH, who ran the study, had this shocking statement to say,"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked tooverweight and obesity. What was surprising was when we looked atpeople only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was evenhigher."Of the 622 participants—all of normal weight at the beginning of thestudy, about a third became overweight or obese.For the regular soft drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweightor obese was:*26% for up to ½ can each day*30.4% for ½ to one can each day*32.8% for 1 to 2 cans each day*47.2% for more than 2 cans each day. But look at the increase for diet soft-drink drinkers!*36% for up to ½ can per day*37.5% for ½ to one can per day*54.5% for 1 to 2 cans per day*57.1% for more than 2 cans each day. For each can of diet soda consumed, a person's risk of obesity went up41%!!!One of the theories of why the difference may have something to dowith trying to fool our bodies. We give them the sweet taste of a dietdrink, but no calories. Another recent study showed that baby ratswhen fed artificial sweeteners craved more calories than baby rats fedreal sugar. Fowler says, "If you offer your body something that tastes like a lotof calories, but it isn't there, your body is alerted to thepossibility that there is something there and it will search for thecalories promised but not delivered."She goes on to say, "People think they can just fool the body. Butmaybe the body isn't fooled. If you are not giving your body thosecalories you promised it, maybe your body will retaliate by wantingmore calories. Some soft drink studies also suggest that diet drinksstimulate appetite."I don't normally do Food for Thought's with research and all thatstuffed into them. But this got my attention, big time and felt youwould want this info yourself. I hope it helps you make a decision tograb a water next time!Love,LeanneHere is a link to read a review of this article.webmd.com/content/Article/107/108476.htm?pagenumber=1

 

 

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yeah, and there isn't time to delete the million messages a day or read them all either -she really got on my nerves with the 'dressed to the toes' bit. I mean, really, some of us like to be barefootin except when walking, biking, or running.

 

Flo

 

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MorningGlory113 I had to unsub because there were just so many e-mails each day and I wasn't keeping up with her chores! ;-).

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Hey, calm down Flo, you'll give yourself a heart attack. (although I

agree with you).

Kind regards

Jeff

 

yeah, and there isn't time to delete the million messages a day or

read them all either -she really got on my nerves with the 'dressed to

the toes' bit. I mean, really, some of us like to be barefootin except

when walking, biking, or running.

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> Flo