Children and Diet Sodas

Updated on March 13, 2008
C.S. asks from New Bedford, MA
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This weekend I was visiting with my boyfriend's family. His brother was there with his 2 daughters, ages 4 & 2. I was apalled to see him filling up 2 sippy cups with Diet Rootbeer!! My boyfriend later told me that's basically all they drink, that and Diet Coke.(yes, I'm serious!) I didn't want to overstep my bounds so I wanted to do find out why diet soft drinks are especially bad for children(I don't know the specifics on why,) and present him with an article or something. Does anyone have suggestions on an article I could forward him that would hopefully scare the pants off him enough to change his young daughters' (very overweight and unhealthy) lifestyle? I have to try to at least make sure he's iinformed on what his girls are drinking. Idiot.

Well, thanks to everyone in advance!

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H.D.

answers from Barnstable on

Send him this!

http://www.stopcancer.com/000/009.htm

SUGAR: YOU JUST LOVE YOUR CHILDREN TO DEATH

Gregory Grosbard of Miami, Florida received a U.S. patent on a process to improve the strength of plastic by using sugar. Each time plastic goes through a heat cycle, it loses strength because oxygen in the atmosphere goes into the material and creates oxygen "holes." Mr. Grosbard found that, by mixing a small amount of sugar into the plastic material during the heat cycle, the sugar grabbed the oxygen first, preventing the oxygen holes and making the plastic stronger.

Research has shown that:

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Processed sugar blocks the absorption of calcium.
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Processed sugar produces a low oxygen environment.
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Processed sugar is extremely acidic.
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Too much processed sugar is the death of the immune system. It interrupts the Kreb's energy cycle which in turn suppresses your immune system's manufacture of killer cells and antibodies.
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Processed sugar depletes B vitamins which is needed by the liver to detoxify it. The liver is the most important organ when it comes to healing the body.
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Sugar does stop hiccups. The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study that used sugar successfully to stop hiccups in 19 out of 20 people; some of whom had been hiccupping for as long as 6 weeks.

Cancer has become the number one "killer disease in children" in the past few years. Sugar consumption is robbing the oxygen out of their little bodies and making their cells extremely acidic while shutting off their immune systems. Sugar averages for children are around 36 teaspoons a day.

The next time you feel like having a soda, just think about this: Colas are extremely acidic with a pH of approximately 2.5. It takes 32 glasses of water with a pH of 10 to neutralize that one cola. And, keep in mind that most water is relatively neutral with a pH of 7.2; water with a pH of ten is approximately one thousand times more alkaline than your run of the mill glass of water.

The other night the news showed a small boy who had just had chemotherapy. His face and eyes showed the horrors he had been through and he appeared to be lifeless and unwilling to live due to being physically destroyed by the poisons (mustard gas). His doctor and loved ones stood over him with a vanilla milk shake in an effort to make him feel better. They were giving him more acid elements (milk shake - sugar) causing his cellular pH to drop more into the pH range that cancer needs to survive within. God forbid.

Alas, I cannot recommend the use of sugar substitutes such as Nutrasweet, which is made from aspartame. Aspartame is 10% wood alcohol -- which your body metabolizes into various carcinogens! (One of them is DKP--which may cause brain tumors.) Fully three-quarters of all non-drug complaints to the FDA involve aspartame. Complaints include headaches, dizziness, mood changes, numbness, vomiting, nausea, muscle cramps and spasms, abdominal pain, vision problems, skin lesions, memory loss and seizures.

You are the only one who change the circumstances that are slowly destroying you and your children. Although we can give you information, ultimately you are responsible for your health. Use sugar and allow it to steal the oxygen and calcium which depletes life and, bit by bit, weaken you and strengthen the environment that cancer needs to grow.

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T.L.

answers from Boston on

This is an article I've read recently about juice and soda being equally bad... basically it's the sugar in both.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/11/health/main6732...

This is from the fisher price website about soda itself...

http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=660&e=expertad...

Honestly, since there is not nutritional value at all, why give it to them? My son was probably 13 or so before he started drinking soda when we went out to dinner... and he knows which ones are caffeine free :)

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C.T.

answers from Bangor on

Soda eats battery acid... When you get dried greenish stuff on the top of your battery - poor soda on it and eats it. If you want a dramatic visual affect - show him that!

As for articles - these girls got you covered :D I don't know, however, if they even touched upon the dental side of soda. The acid and sugar eat away enamel.

I applaud you for being able to bite your tongue. I admit, I let my son drink soda when we go out to eat -- 50% of the time, knowing he has the choice, he still chooses water. Makes me feel like I did something right!! And you are too by getting information instead of jumping.

Congrats on the new addition to your family!

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B.P.

answers from Boston on

I applaud you're wanting to give him the information, but I would be very careful on how you present it. I would start slow with just a comment broaching the subject to see if he's open to the idea that there is a better way for his girls.......maybe... "the girls have been playing so hard they must be very thirsty, my pediatrician says water is great for kids, soda causes alot of problems". See how something gently put is responded to then take your queue from there. If he's not open to receiving the information you'd be taking a chance on causing a rift that could be hard to heal. By overwhelming him with data, he may be offended that you're questioning/challenging his parenting skills such that they are.

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C.L.

answers from Boston on

To keep it very simple, Diet Soda, sweetened with Nutra-Sweet, Aspartame etc., Is Deadly!!

When you take in this artificial sweetener you are pickling your insides, not to mention the additive properties. It will cause weight gain, not loss. When you ingest these artificial sweeteners, it turns to wood alcohol and then into formaldehyde with our body temperatures. Yes that would be what they embalm people with. So you see what it will do for children. If this doesn't scare him off, nothing will. The info is out there, if you need it in print let me know.

C.

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