Drinks ?

[Steo]

I just have my cereal and tea with no sugar and dinner with no salt. I don't add those to anything anymore really.

[The Jonster]

Sugar is technically not good for people due to the calories, that's why I stopped. To each his own though. The only reason I have to add salt to my diet is because my nutrionist told me to. I usually just like to just spice/add some other flavor component instead of salting it.

[Steo]

Yeah I just gave up using salt and sugar but I still use other condiments. Coca Cola tastes nice too but it's definitely another one that too much makes me feel really sick and get bad heartburn / reflux.

[The Jonster]

For me, I can't really drink any kind of soda in general due to my weight, even diet soda (diet soda, i've learned, has its own problems too). I prefer sparkling water in this instance, though I like regular water also these days.

[Steo]

A lot of diet soda isn't much better and in some cases diet can be worse.

Diet Coke has more caffeine than normal coke, in fact about 1.25 times the caffeine.

[Ray502]

Water, chocolate milk, Powerade, Pepsi, root beer. Those are my preferred drinks in that order.

[Steo]

Pepsi doesn't turn my stomach like Coca-Cola whatever they have in that drink.

[The Jonster]

I'm not sure if it's the chemicals, but my nutrionist tells me that if I'm going to drink soda, drink the clear ones. I know it's because the colored ones have chemicals, but I still wonder...what's bad about those chemicals?

[Titenoute]

Maybe because there of the additives? Some of them, depending on the carbonated drink, come from stuff like palm oil. Which isn't that great for health. But i don't see why those couldn't be in clear ones.
Else, may be it's the food coloring ? But that'd be the first time i'd hear that food coloring is bad for you health.

[PluMGMK]

Coca-Cola has phosphoric acid (I think as a preservative?), but I'm not sure whether or not Pepsi has it too.

[The Jonster]

According to Wikipedia, yes, Pepsi has it too. The only difference between the two that I see from researching on wiki is that Pepsi also has citric acid, while Coca-Cola doesn’t. I wonder if this second acid is the reason Steo doesn’t get as sick from drinking it. Geez I have this strange urge to look up every drink ingredient now. After I get up later that is.

[Steo]

I'm genuinely wondering now. I can drink some of it in small amounts but if I drink too much of it then it literally can leave me feeling kind of horrible for a couple of days. Even when I drank lager a lot it took far more of that to make me feel sick than Coca-Cola. I think it's definitely some acid or maybe the syrup? I'm not too sure.

[The Jonster]

Bleck, high fructose corn syrup? Definitely one of the reasons why I stopped drinking so much soda, it's what makes it so sugary despite the sugar content saying it's low sugar.

[PluMGMK]

Isn't that stuff basically poison?

[The Jonster]

Hm, I have no idea. It's a sweetener, but....

[Steo]

Maybe that's why it makes me feel sick then

[The Jonster]

All sodas I think have this kind of sweetener. Regular sodas I mean. Some diet sodas may have splenda, etc...

[Steo]

What do they have in really cheap off brand ones then I wonder.

[The Jonster]

Now I'm genuinely wondering that too. Maybe rip-off chemicals?

[Steo]

I'm drinking E's and X's and God knows what