June 2013
WHATS SO WRONG WITH SODA POP?
Recently, while teaching a workshop, one of the students asked, “what is so wrong with drinking soda”. I paused and asked her “what is so right about drinking soda”. She was silent. I allowed her a long pause to process the question. When she broke the silence she said quietly, “I don’t know.”
We all know there is nothing healthy about drinking soda pop. The “regular” soda has high amounts of sugar which has been proven over and over again to be extremely taxing on the human body. From internal and vascular inflammation to insulin resistance – just the alarming amount of sugar is enough to say STOP! But when you think about the ingredients – most of which we cannot pronounce let alone identify what chemical it is – that’s when we realize that soda is full of stuff and none of it is natural or healthy!.
Diet soda is even worse. YES, even worse than the sugared stuff. The body believes the sweetness is caused by sugar thus it responds by releasing insulin. But guess what?? NO sugar. So what happens to all the insulin? The body has to figure out what to do with it. And that’s a damaging task. In the mean time, there is an artificial sweetener running through the blood stream and now the liver has to figure out what to do with that!
How much toxic chemicals (called soda pop) do we have to consume before we realize the body is not designed to digest or assimilate it? How do we expect our body to rise up to the challenges of all we want/need to do when we fuel it with chemicals the body can’t utilize but must also find a way to cleanse those same chemicals out. And when will we stop serving soda to our children?
Schools districts who have removed the soda from their vending machines and filled them with water instead, found the students and staff had more consistent energy levels, more focus and less disciplinary issues. Hummm…. Still want to drink that soda?
