WHAT IS WRONG WITH CARBONATED BEVERAGES

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What some people call pop, or soda, is really a poison that will cause Ill health in everyone who drinks it. Many people drink it as if it's incidental to their day, infusing their routine with the dangers of the many ingredients guaranteed to endanger our health. What it contains:

(1)Phosphoric Acid: this interferes with calcium absorption and may cause weakened bones and teeth, it also neutralizes hydrochloric acid in your stomach, which can interfere with digestion, making it difficult to utilize nutrients. So if you are taking calcium to make your bones strong, you can pretty much kiss that benefit goodbye if you drink pop, also since it keeps you from utilizing other nutrients you eat, well your food becomes merely empty calories, how do you feel right now?

Sugar: also called killer white sugar, why? Sugar increases insulin levels, which can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, premature aging and many more negative side effects. Most sodas include over 100 percent of the RDA of sugar. And if that's not enough they also sweeten your fizzy drinks with lots of cheaper High Fructose Corn syrup:


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High Fructose Corn Syrup HFCS high fructose corn syrup is responsible for a dangerous epidemic of obesity and diabetes. People under the age of 45 are “children of the corn.” ...of the food industry’s high fructose corn syrup. They were children or young adults in the late 70s, 80s and 90s when high fructose corn syrup was introduced to the American food supply as a cheap replacement for sugar. Now many of them are struggling with an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, also being referred to as diabesity.
It puts people at risk for metabolic syndrome. According to the Mayo Clinic, "Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk for heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Having just one of these conditions — increased blood pressure, elevated insulin levels, excess body fat around the waist or abnormal cholesterol levels — contributes to your risk of serious disease. In combination, your risk is even greater." People who use HFCS as a sweetener increase their triglycerides 32 percent relative to people who use mostly sugar, it doesn't trigger the satiation mechanism that tells us, I'm full, I've had enough, so we tend to really overdo our eating. There is a a rise in uric acid in the bloodstream that occurs after fructose is consumed. The temporary spike of HFCS blocks the action of insulin, which typically regulates how body cells use and store sugar and other food nutrients for energy. If uric acid levels are frequently elevated, over time features of metabolic syndrome may develop, including high blood pressure, obesity and elevated blood cholesterol levels. Older people may have something to worry about also. The leading theory about the cause of Alzheimer's Disease implicates insulin. Insulin concentrations in the brain drop significantly in early Alzheimer's and continue to fall as the disease worsens, suggesting that Alzheimer's Disease may be Type 3 diabetes. Researchers found that insulin is not just produced in the pancreas, but also in the brain.

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Aspartame: This chemical is used as a sugar substitute in diet soda. There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption including brain tumors, birth defects, diabetes, emotional disorders and epilepsy/seizures. Further, when aspartame is stored for long periods of time or kept in warm areas it changes to methanol, an alcohol that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, which are known carcinogens.

Caffeine: Caffeinated drinks can cause jitters, insomnia, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, elevated blood cholesterol levels, vitamin and mineral depletion, breast lumps, birth defects, and perhaps some forms of cancer.

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Sodium benzoate:: Soda could be doing more damage than you think Credit: unknown Copyright: unknown Enlarge + According to recent research, carried out by Sheffield University in the UK, a preservative that is commonly found in soft drinks can cause essential parts of human DNA to stop working, leading to serious health problems.

It can lead to cancer, Parkinson's and cirrhosis of the Liver, by damaging the mitochondria... yummy! (3)

"The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it - as happens in a number if diseased states - then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing."

tap water: used in making soda can include so many impurities they are too numerous to name, chemicals like chlorine and Fluoride, bacteria, viruses, fungal agents, parasites, and of course there is all that medicine we have recently learned that is a big part of our tap water. I drink filtered water on-the-go with pure-go filtering water bottles
lasts for approximately 1 year.

Alternatives?:(5)

1. Club soda mixed with pomegranate juice. 160 calories per cup; still bubbly.

2. Tonic water with a squeeze of lemon or lime. Only 80 calories; still bubbly.

3. Light yogurt and fruit smoothie. Creamy and sweet, high in calcium and only 174 calories per cup.

4. Tomato juice or V8. Packed with flavor; high in vitamins C, A, and potassium and only 50 calories per cup.

5. Flavored seltzer. Carbonated, but zero calories.

6. Energy drink (such as Gatorade). Tastes sweet, 60 calories per cup, contains electrolytes.

7. Apple cider. Has 120 calories per cup, but packs a tangy, substantial flavor.

8. Milk, whole or skim. High in calcium and protein—and you need both. With 145 calories per cup of whole milk; 85 calories for skim.

9. Ovaltine made with skim milk. It's chocolaty, fortified with vitamins and minerals, high in calcium and protein and 170 calories per cup.

10. Tea or coffee, unsweetened. Get a boost on less than five calories per cup, plus it's high in antioxidants.

Of couse it is advisable not to use purchased tonic waters or pre-packaged teas or coffees because of the same problem with tap water or and sugar or HFCS that might be included, Also the Ovaltine is a processed food, if you want chocolate, buy Certified organic [DARK] cocoa, not processed milky chocolate, and if you want Milk drink the raw healthy live milk not dead over-cooked pasteurized milks.

I drink lots of pure filtered water and am taking CellPower™ because for one thing it does have lots of digestive enzymes in it, also it helps to balance the pH levels and is antibiotic, anti-viral-and anti-fungal AND IT PACKS THE CELLS WITH LIFE-GIVING OXYGEN, AND ENERGY. And:SELENIUMhelps immune system,fights infection and aids circulation
~MAGNESIUMhelps to relax you, aids stress and muscle relaxing
~CHROMIUMimproves insulin sensitivity, and helps lower blood sugar.
~ZINC especially to help you heal.
I also eat, one of the best fats for the Omega-3~6 balance and losing weight.
~coconut oil


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~~~Jokes And inspirations/quotes~~~
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure
that one of them is doing the thinking.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

When someone tells you something defies
description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a
go at it anyway.
-- Clyde B. Aster

When they call the roll in the Senate, the
Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or
'Not guilty.'
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.
Think about it.
-- Elias Schwartz

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with
less intelligence and more sense than we have.
-- Don Herold
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Happy Easter !!!
A lady opened her refrigerator and saw a rabbit sitting on one of the shelves.
"What are you doing in there?"
she asked.
The rabbit replied:
"This is a Westinghouse, isn't it?",
to which the lady replied
"Yes."
"Well," the rabbit said,
"I'm westing."

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Two little old ladies were sitting in church one Sunday dressed in their very best.
The pastor had gotten long winded and they begin to twitch and squirm.
One of the little ladies leaned to the other and said, "My behind has gone to sleep."
The other leaned back over and replied, "I know because I've heard it snore three times already."
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How many doctors does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one. He holds it and the earth revolves around it.
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How many NCAA basketball players does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but he gets money, a car, and three college credit hours for it!
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How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
Eventually only one. But that is only after a whole team of engineers tried rebooting the electrical system a few times.
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The airliner approached its destination to find a thick fog blanketing the area. Unfortunately as they descended, the radar direction system failed, leaving no way to find their runway. They were literally flying blind.
Seeing a guy on the top floor of an office building, the copilot stuck his head out the window and called out in desperation,
"Where am I??"
The man called back "You're in a plane!"
With this, the copilot shut the window and confidently called, "118 degrees, six miles. Go!" Sure enough, this info put them squarely and safely on the Sea-Tac tarmac.
His partner was stunned. "How did you figure that out?"
"Well, the guy in the building just gave me info that was both technically correct and entirely useless. That tells me he was in the Microsoft Tech Support building, and I went from there."
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MY LIVING WILL
Last night my sister and I were sitting in the den and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle to keep me alive. That would be no quality of life at all. If that ever happens, just pull the plug."
So she got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine.
She's such a brat!
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My blessing for you is that you live in peace, and find your joy is simple things, that your meat is truth and your drink is living water.

Sources:
(1)http://www.oleda.com/oleda_tips/tips.asp?dept=48
(2)http://www.femhealth.com/DangersofHFCS.html
http://www.westonaprice.org/motherlinda/cornsyrup.html
http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/highfructose.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Dangers-of-Sodas-and-Diet-Drinks&id=151615
(3)http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/caution-some-soft-drinks-may-seriously-harm-your-health-450593.html
(4)http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5422.cfm
(5)http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/food-nutrition/recipe-central/ingredient-swap/soda-pop-spritzer?msc=a62593

DEALING WITH HEALTH AND NO INSURANCE

I haven't been insured since my mother dropped me from hers when I got married at age 20, that year I had a baby by Cesarean, gall bladder surgery and a massive stroke that left me with brain damage, I was barely employable most of my life and NEWSFLASH!!!!people with minimum wage heavy physical jobs don't get medical insurance as part of their benefit package. Not only are we undervalued, and expected to work-literally-until we drop[ I could tell you stories-being locked in a factory while machinery burns so we won't go home-after being injured on the job not being allowed to file a 'claim', more....], but we are quickly disposed of when times are a little rough.

Even though I began to be suspicious of the pharma-solutions so prevalent in therapies, I still attended on the doctors and took their advice for a long time.
But without any insurance, It became necessary to go to alternative ways of maintaining health. I started buying the Rodale books on healing cures and herbs that weren't terribly costly and readily available. There were many wonderful hints in there on causes and preventions of many conditions.

This really helped me and I was able to stay away from costly medical help. since then I've seen more and more clues, and have cleaned up my diet, but you know all that.

Here's another thing. Did you know that people without insurance are charged extra for medical supplies and medicines? It's true, Insulin for one costs much more to the consumer than to the insurance company. I get mine for free. Lately I'm also getting my test strips for free too, and there are programs for gettuing a better rate for needles, but I will probably not avail myself of that.

Just yesterday in the mail I got 50 test strips and a new meter[accu-check active] by Fedex from Accu-check. We've also ordered another 100 free test strips from Ascensia contour[Bayer].

Here are some phone numbers to get information on getting a new meter and or test strips:
For Roche diagnostics that sells the Accu-check meters and test strips call
877-757-6243 or 800-830-9049 or 800-285-4484 Ask about the Accucheck active.

For the ascencia made by Bayer call 1-800-998-9180 or 800-348-8100 or 800-468-0894 ask them for their free testing supplies for diabetes. I'd ask first if they are still offereing it. These programs can change at any time.

Some programs require that you obtain a prescription from your doctor, I go to a local free clinic.

Here is a wonderful site to find help in buying your prescriptions, I get my INSULIN FOR FREE! It is Lilly drug company.

Those of us who have spent our lives pretty poor have had to develop techniques to live better and longer.

If you have any problems you can write to me webriter@verizon.net.

I get my supplements the cheapest and best from the following companies:
I'm taking CellPower™ yes, you can get this slightly cheaper at your health food store, my local one is 15 miles away and gas is $3.99.9 a gallon here.
FLAX SEED OIL
~Glutathione-the master antioxidant is a great helper to counteract many diabetic complications.
~4 essential minerals for diabetics
I could take the ones from Family Dollar at $1.00 each but they are made in China, and have fillers and yeasts and other stuff, not good in them.
~SELENIUMhelps immune system,fights infection and aids circulation
~MAGNESIUMhelps to relax you, aids stress and muscle relaxing
~CHROMIUMimproves insulin sensitivity, and helps lower blood sugar.
~ZINC especially to help you heal.
~coconut oil for weight loss, EFA balance

Which incidentally is another fungi-cide and energy booster.


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~~~Jokes and Inspiration~~~
THE HISTORY OF WIRELESS

Recently the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper reported that a Cajun amateur archaeologist, having dug to a depth of 10 meters, found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the Cajuns, in the weeks that followed Texas scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters. Shortly after, headlines in the Dallas Morning News read: "Texas archaeologists have found traces of 200-year old copper wire, and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 100 years earlier than the Cajuns."

One week later, the Daily Oklahoman reported: "After digging as deep as 30 meters in wheat fields near Watonga, Bubba Williams, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Oklahomans were already using wireless."
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All animals are equal but some animals are more
equal than others.
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I can think of nothing more boring for the
American people than to have to sit in their living
rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on
their television screens.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Historians are like deaf people who go on
answering questions that no one has asked them.
-- Leo Tolstoy

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a
beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know
when I am having a good time.
-- Nancy Astor

Girls are always running through my mind. They
don't dare walk.
-- Andy Gibb

Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your
hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just
rattle your jewelry.
-- John Lennon

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is
not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every
wickedness.
-- Joseph Conrad,

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The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time and what do you get at the end of it? You die!
I think the life cycle is all backwards.

Instead:
You should die first, get it out of the way.
Then you live in an old age home.
You get kicked out when you're too young.
You get a gold watch when you go to work.
You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for University.
You go to Secondary school, national school.
You become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities.
You become a little baby.
You go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating --- and you finish off as…shall we say…a twinkle in someone’s eye!

How's that?!
~~~
The young mother skeptically examined a new educational toy. "Isn't it rather complicated for a small boy?" she asked the salesclerk. "It's designed to teach the child how to live in today's world, madam," the shop clerk replied. "Any way he tries to put it together is wrong."
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GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES FROM A LAW FIRM

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We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishers.

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A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack.

"Miss Whack, I'd like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday."

Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it's okay, he knows the bank manager.

Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral.

The frog says, "Sure, I have this," and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.

Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.

She finds the manager and says, " There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral."

She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?"

The bank manager looks back at her and says ...

"It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."

(You're singing it, aren't you?
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The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be
only five Kings left--the King of England, the
King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of
Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
-- King Farouk of Egypt, 1948

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line
between sanity and madness gotten finer?
-- George Price

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go
a little mad: whether from great personal
success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole
survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
-- John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who
Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8,
1974

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that
cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett

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HAVE A LOVELY, HEALTHY DAY, BE STEEPED IN PEACE, PERCOLATED IN JOY AND MARINATED IN MIRTH.

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