Healthy Habit # 7 Don't Drink Diet Drinks

It’s not the soda that's bad for you so much as the negative effects of the artificial sweeteners it contains.

For starters, because of your body chemistry, drinking the artificial sweeteners may actually cause you to gain weight – perhaps even more so than having regular old sugar.

In addition to its potential to actually bring about weight gain, studies have linked artificial sweeteners to other ill health effects. Aspartme, which Nutrasweet and Equal are made of, for example, contains toxic methanol. The sweetener was also once listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent, and has been linked to leukemia and lymphoma.

The sugar in soda is high fructose corn syrup which is 100 times sweeter than regular old sugar (sucrose). So your body uses 100 times the insulin. Some experts think soda is the #1 cause of the epidemic of diabetes.

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