{"id":146,"date":"2009-08-28T20:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/diet-soda-no-good-no-way\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T20:07:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:07:57","slug":"diet-soda-no-good-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/diet-soda-no-good-no-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet Soda &#8211; No Good No Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Diet Soda Makes You Fat?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">Avoid sodas\u2026 even if they are diet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">Sodas will make you fat. And they lead to other health problems. That \u201cinnocent\u201d low-cal diet soda is really danger in a can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">A published study tracked the diets of men and women for nine years. Those who drank just one can of diet soda a day increased their risk of metabolic syndrome by 34%.\u00a0 Metabolic syndrome is a collection of symptoms that lead to diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases like cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">Just one can of diet soda a day puts you at almost a 10% higher risk of metabolic syndrome than eating a diet of fried foods! And regular soda isn\u2019t any better. Another study found that it\u2019s also associated metabolic syndrome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">The average American drinks an estimated 56 gallons of soft drinkseach year.\u00a0 No wonder over 50 million Americans have metabolic syndrome!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">Instead of soft drinks, drink spring water or purified water. For a little added flavor, add fresh orange or lemon slices\u2026 even raspberries. You can even try a splash of natural fruit juice.\u00a0 For a change of pace, try iced tea or lemonade. If you like a little sweetness, add a touch of stevia \u2014 a natural calorie-free sweetener that you can find in any health food store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com\/\">Total Health BreakThroughs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/susannajade.posterous.com\/diet-soda-no-good-no-way\">susannajade\u2019s posterous<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diet Soda Makes You Fat? Avoid sodas\u2026 even if they are diet. Sodas will make you fat. And they lead to other health problems. That \u201cinnocent\u201d low-cal diet soda is really danger in a can. A published study tracked the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/diet-soda-no-good-no-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-attitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}