Here at my house i can drink soda the whole week, but two of my friends is only allowed to drink soda on the weekends.
Is is more normal to be allowed to drink soda just in the weekend or the whole week?

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I try not to drink soda at all

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Congratulations. you won a soda... Oh wait...

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Same for me. Once you stop drinking it, you really don't miss it.

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:)

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Disagree, I quit soda for two or three years, missed it a lot. Now I drink maybe a can a day and make sure it is real soda with sugar or cane sugar. Harder to find in Canada. I'm in Australia and everything here uses real sugar!

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Is that good logic?

So i shouldnt quit crack because i'll miss it?

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I agree. I might have some once a week (I find its easier to eat healthy 6 days a week by allowing myself a "cheat day" of indulgence on forbidden foods), especially if I'm having pizza (best cheat day food) or something else where a good fizzy cola or a bottle of a microbrew root beer (Virgil's is amazing!) will complement the meal. Otherwise, I stay away from it, because its basically corn syrup and acid.

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Research backs this up. Indulging makes it easier to stay straight on other things. Better to do it daily rather than weekly. You should read the truth about honesty. Has a chapter or two in it about that.

So I tend to indulge on dessert, or a soda, or pizza... So I can be more stringent at work or other aspects of diet and what not. Gives me more focus else where.

Also, find better soda, plenty of them use real sugars and acid is in most drinks.

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I absolutely love water. I actually think that it tastes great. Maybe that's because the pacific NW we do have great water.

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97
Yeah.

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Change to beer

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15 y/o problems.

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Not in Germany.

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Or the UK, if you have parents that don't mind you drinking.

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+1

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+1

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Does hard lemonade and/or girly wine coolers count?

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No. Never.

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Those things don't resemble beer, so no.

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+1. Or cider :D

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I'll cheers to that.

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I drink it sometimes on the weekend.

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Odd question.

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I wouldn't imagine drinking one every day is a good thing. Maybe 4 times a week?

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It's weird to drink it more than once a week. Very unhealthy. You'll rot your teeth and get diabetes. (Not being sarcastic.)

(Spammer.)

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Don't spread bs. Drinking it everyday won't cause diabetes, neither will it rot anybodies teeth if they have proper dental hygiene.

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The American Diabetes Association recommends that people should limit their intake of sugar-sweetened beverages to help prevent diabetes. Diabetes is linked to lifestyle choices, particularly obesity, sugar, and particularly sugar-sweetened beverages.

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When I was younger, I was always able to drink it whenever I wanted, though I was always encouraged to drink more than just that.

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You were encouraged to drink it even more than you wanted to?

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Bad wording on my part. I was always encouraged to drink other things beside soda as well (juice, milk, water, etc).

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I was joking. =)

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Haha alright. I wasn't sure and realized I wasn't as clear as I should have been anyway :p

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I don't drink soda anymore, but when I did I was able to drink it whenever I want. I could eat or drink anything, as a normal human would be allowed to, except for liquor of course, as I'm under-age and do not want it anyway.

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Yeah, I live in a country in which you may buy things and then drink them without asking permission too.

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Indeed, indeed; we must rejoice at this fact and savoir every single drop of these precious liquids. My name is Michael too, just like yours. :o

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Hi, Michael. Why do you know my name?

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From your profile of course. That would be the only easily feasible area for me to have seen it. :P

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No, I know where you found it. I was just curious about why.

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I like to take note of people that act in a manner that I find acceptable or adequate; it helps me in that sense to also know who I would not like to converse with as they may make me feel as though I am more stupid by just speaking with them.

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When I was a kid my mother only allowed me to drink on weekends and on special occasions.

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If you drink soda every day, you'll get diabetes.

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I'd say this is false. Sure, if you drunk tons of soda, and ate lots of sugary foods every day, you will get diabetes, but not just one can.

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I don't think OP said anything about just one can?

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But even then, it would take years before he got diabetes.

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So? It always takes years to get diabetes.

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Exactly, so even if sugar was a direct cause (which it is not), I doubt OP would drink soda to the point of obesity.

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No it does not.

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The American Diabetes Association recommends that people should limit their intake of sugar-sweetened beverages to help prevent diabetes. Diabetes is linked to lifestyle choices, particularly obesity, sugar, and particularly sugar-sweetened beverages.

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It has been proven that sugar is not a main cause of diabetes, but small factor.
They even stated that having to much sugar causes diabetes is a myth, but the sugar contributes towards obesity therefore increasing chances of diabetes.
Drinking a can or two of fizzy a day will not cause diabetes, if you don't sit around all day and are healthy.

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Link please? Diabetes isn't proven to be caused by obesity or sugar or sugary drinks. However, it substantially linked to all three of those things. I personally know three people who have never been obese who have diabetes. Their doctors told them that their daily sugary soda intake was most likely to blame. Are you a doctor? If not, please substantiate your unusual claim that goes against popular belief and goes against my sources.

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I am not saying sugary foods do not contribute towards the cause of diabetes, but that it is not a direct cause (source).
Do they have type 1 diabetes? Because the main cause for that is genetic inheritance.

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I never claimed it was a direct cause. Did anyone here claim that?

The three I mentioned have type 2. That would make their doctors pretty stupid to tell them that the sugar drink habit was the cause otherwise, wouldn't it?

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I always thought that it doesn't work that way. From what I can gather there's one type of diabetes that is caused by obesity, but I haven't been able to find any credible information on a direct link between sugar intake and diabetes.

The above is very much correct me if I'm wrong.

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I think people relate too much sugar to diabetes because it is mainly caused by high blood sugar levels. But it is false to say sugar is a direct cause, because the main cause is obesity.

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I always thought the main cause was your pancreas wearing out. Like it ages extra fast because it's in hyper drive constantly trying to convert the sugar into energy or fat never getting a break or many luls.(Too much sugar in your blood kills cells, ALL cells in your body have a chance to become victim).

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There are several causes, one of them is you Pancreas not producing enough insulin that might be for many causes. Other types are caused by not enough response from your body to insuline levels and so on and so forth.

The pancreas does not convert sugar into anything (well it does) every single cell produces their own energy (but some brain cells) what it does is release insulin which activates the caption of glucose in several cells (I think it was those with Glut4 transporters, not really sure now though) Also stimulates the production of glucogen in the Liver.

Too much sugar in your blood does not kill cells per se. It does but it's more complicated than that. Having said that high levels of glucose blood levels are really bad and should be avoided.

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I don't make rules for myself!
Want to drink a soda? Yes, I will! I don't restrain myself from having what I want, I don't like these silly rules.

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Just drink it whenever you want it. Don't drink litres a day, then you will be screwed. So long as you brush your teeth, they won't rot.

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I have quite a bit on the weekends, though I've cut back quite a bit on drinking it during the week. Not because I have to though, just because it's healthier.

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Many people here are right: it's bad for you. That's why I always mix it with hard liquor to help offset the bad stuff.

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Irish soda..."Mmmmm"...

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Put some poison in soda. It's delicious

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I drink it every couple months/weeks....usually.

Its really pretty bad for you....isn't like one 8oz cup equel to like 8-12 sugar cubes? Thats to much to drink constantly Imo....

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Same.

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a can is roughly fifty percent of your daily intake... depending on soda.

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Yeah sounds crazy, especially people that drink it throughout the day.

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Yeah, tea is better. :p

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It is, can sweeten it to my liking :-D!

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I don't drink fizzy drinks any more. Just water for me, and the occasional milkshake for a treat!

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I drink soda in place of water. I hate the taste of water. No sugary sodas, though - feels like I'm drinking syrup.

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Does that mean you're drinking soda water (carbonated water) or is there another kind of non-sugary soda? Just curious.

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Diet soda contains about 0.1 gram of sugar (diet coke, etc), but of course there are still acids in the drink, so it's a useless alternative to prevent enamel erosion. But of course that will only happen if you have poor dental hygiene.

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Oh yeah, I wasn't thinking about sugar substitutes.

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A lot of research shows that sugar substitutes are actually worse for you than sugar, as they are usually chemicals that the body is not designed to process and may also induce an insulin response.

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Worse in which way? I cannot find a thing about artificial sweeteners causing significant health problems.

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I always drink soda and such, but my kids usually have juice or tea.

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I don't drink a lot of soda. When I do it is at anytime of the week.

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i like to drink pepsi at the end of the week, like now

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I have a caffeine addiction, so 3 cans a day, every day... Any less, and I get headaches (which can only be cured by headache medicine with caffeine)

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Would caffeine pills or coffee not be a better alternative?

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Never cared for coffee, and I'd rather avoid taking caffeine pills. That'd probably be a slightly worse addiction :P

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Fair dos. And yeah, it probably would, lol.

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I drink it when I want because I'm an adult. That said I try not to drink too much. It's not really a health thing since I drink energy drinks more frequently. I'm not very good at cutting out a vice and leaving it at that.

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I get a nice glass bottled coke or pepsi 0,33 liters every evening. I don't drink any alcohol (28 years old and a dad, I just don't drink, smoke or do anything else) so this is my treat for the day. I enjoy it thoroughly.

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