A friend of mine posted on facebook today a link about the health concerns associated with drinking soda. Having given up soda years ago (I honestly can't remember the last time I had a sip outside of some soda water in my cocktail last weekend) I can say I feel better and healthier without the toxic stuff running through my system. Originally, I cut it out about 6 years ago when I changed over to a gluten free diet because some carmel coloring has gluten in it. I found an automatic benefit in eliminating soda. I was less bloated, drank less caffiene, and partook in a fraction of the sugar I'd been previously subjecting myself to. My stomach thanked me profusely. I also found that once I was off the stuff for about a week, I stopped craving it. I have found, many times over, that there aren't many better things you can do for yourself than eliminating sugar and caffiene. When ingesting sugar you are building up candida, or yeast, in your system and the more yeast grows in your system, the more of the stuff your system wants and craves in order to feed itself and keep growing. This can cause all kinds of problems, from skin reactions and inflammation to joint tenderness and all kinds of stomach problems. When you begin to eliminate the sugar from your system, the yeast begins to shrink. That first week will be tough, but once you get over the hump your body will stop craving it and you'll start to feel like a new, healthier person without many of the problems you may not even have realized you'd developed. To read a more scientific and specific explanation of this phenomenon, click here.
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