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"A study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology examined 1,009 male patients who formed kidney stones and were also consumers of a significant amount of soda to see what effect soda might have on stone recurrence. The guys who consumed the largest quantities of phosphate-based sodas had the highest rate of stone recurrence. We know that most stones are made from calcium oxalate, and we know limiting highoxalate foods is a really good idea. But what about limiting the other half of this duo— calcium? On the face of it, it sounds like a good idea." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"I think the worst carbohydrate of any kind is soda pop. The phosphate, or phosphoric acid, in soda pop changes the chemistry of the body dramatically—and not for the better. The pH of soda pop is less than 3, which is very acidic. To neutralize this powerful acid, the body must use loads of minerals, such as magnesium and calcium. And the more soda you drink, the more likely you are to be deficient in these minerals." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"I can't tell you how many people I've known who quit drinking soda shed a bunch of weight. I don't mean I -2 pounds, I mean 10-15. There are 250 calories in a 20-oz bottle of Coke. Not to mention there is caffeine! Take the effects of caffeine and add them to a sugar overload and you have one unhealthy body. Do you drink soda and coffee?! If so, and you want more energy, I will tell you right now that dropping those two poisonous habits will improve your daily stamina by 100%! What about diet soda? I've already told you about aspartame. 7. Fast Food No Whoppers, No Big Macs, No NOTHING." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"If you are going to drink a soda, I personally do not, I drink water, but if you are going to drink a soda what kind of soda should you drink? Here we get into a matter of degrees. The word that I want you to be aware of is "natural" or "all-natural." The food industry has paid tens of millions of dollars to its lobbyists to get the definition of "natural" and "all-natural" to mean not what you think it means! When you see the word "all-natural" on a product you assume that it is "as nature intended"; this is not true." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Jelly, soda pop, pastry, beer, cake, salad dressing. Benzoic acid. soda pop, fruit juice, margarine, apple cider. Monosodium glutamate (MSG). Bouillon, Chinese restaurant dishes, chicken broth or flavoring, and may also be present in glutamate, hy-drolyzed protein, sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, or yeast extract. EDTA. Margarine, salad dressing, frozen dinners, and other processed foods. Aspartame. Artificially sweetened foods. Propyl Gallate. Frozen dinners, gravy mix, turkey sausage. Alginate. Ice cream, salad dressing, cheese spread, frozen dinners. Bromates." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"To ensure alkaline urine, about VA teaspoons (6-8 grams) of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) mixed in a glass of water can be taken. Baking soda should also not be taken for more than 14 days. People with high blood pressure (page 246) should not take baking soda. Uva ursi should not be used to treat an infection (page 265) without first consulting a physician. Are there any side effects or interactions? Due to the high tannin content in uva ursi, some people may experience cramping, nausea, or vomiting. It is also not recommended for long-term use." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Baking soda works like magic, it sometimes just takes time and making sure you are using enough. Keep kids away so they don't inhale the baking soda while it's applied. Sweep up the larger amounts of baking soda, and vacuum up the rest. (Note that your vacuum cleaner bag will get full and heavy.) Caution: While damp baking soda works well to remove many odors, it can also get stuck onto the carpet fibers and be difficult to clean." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.)

"Many schools might have chips and sodas on their menus or vending and soda machines in their hallways. To protect your children from these toxic temptations, start by researching the foods and snacks available in their schools. If the school-day menu is for the most part comprised of processed foods, join forces with other interested parents and lobby the school's administration to make some changes—and again, my environmental center can help walk you through these essential steps." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The pH of soda pop is less than 3, which is very acidic. To neutralize this powerful acid, the body must use loads of minerals, such as magnesium and calcium. And the more soda you drink, the more likely you are to be deficient in these minerals. Strangely enough, diet sodas are worse than regular soda because in addition to them being acidic, you also give the body very high doses of aspartame or some other synthetic, toxic sugar-substitute." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"So-called "sports drinks" should be eliminated, since they are high in calories. soda, juice, and energy and sports drinks contain empty calories that will make you fat; they also contain caffeine, which is addictive and makes you consume even more of those useless calories. If you are thirsty, drink water. Replacing sodas and juices with water will help you lose more than five pounds per year, solving the weight problems of most people." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Vinegar tastes like cream soda. It's nature's NutraSweet. As I sit there in a blissed-out miracle-fruit trance, hours fly by. At closing time, I help Love pack up the ultraexotics. He offers to give me a tour around the island the next day. That evening, in the hotel lobby, the miracle fruit is still making my soda water taste slightly sweet. As I'm going over my notes, the singer of the lounge band sits down next to me. She has just finished a flamboyant rendering of Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Making Love." Her name is Priscilla. She is a transsexual. "So whatcha doing in Hawaii?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"After removing the castor oil pack, clean the skin with soda water (two teaspoons of baking soda added to a quart of warm water). The castor oil pack may be saved in a reseal-able plastic bag or container for future use. It can be used repeatedly for a number of treatments. INFUSIONS An infusion is a simple tea made with one or more herbs steeped in boiled water. To make an infusion, weigh out one ounce of dry herbs. Add one pint (two cups) of boiling water to the herbs. Some herbs will taste better if you use more than two cups of water. Steep the herbs for ten to twenty minutes." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"If you drink coffee or caffeinated soda every day, you will want to prevent the headaches that are caused by caffeine withdrawal. Start taking pantothenic acid (vitamin B-5) for about 4 days before starting the cleanse. The dosage should be approximately 400 mg., taken 3 times a day, while at the same time you reduce your coffee or soda intake about 25 percent each day. This will help you taper off the caffeine that you are accustomed to having. The day you start your cleanse, you will be off coffee or soda completely and will no longer need to take the vitamin supplement." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"If you are going to drink a soda, I personally do not, I drink water, but if you are going to drink a soda what kind of soda should you drink? Here we get into a matter of degrees. The word that I want you to be aware of is "natural" or "all-natural." The food industry has paid tens of millions of dollars to its lobbyists to get the definition of "natural" and "all-natural" to mean not what you think it means! When you see the word "all-natural" on a product you assume that it is "as nature intended"; this is not true." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"People drinking the most soda were 60% more likely to gain a significant amount of weight during the study compared to those who seldom drank soda. Other foods positively linked to weight gain were hamburgers, pizza, sausage, red meat, and sweetened fruit juices. This shouldn't come as a surprise, but it certainly explains why Americans are gaining excess weight-these are among Americans' most favorite foods." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"While she's painting she tends to snack on Gummi Bears and soda. She's gained thirty pounds in the past year. She tells everyone she's just so busy preparing for her gallery opening that she can't socialize anymore. But in reality, she doesn't want anyone to see how much weight she's gained. She's hiding behind her loner armor. Defense to Accusation #3: You're a phony Harriet will try to accuse you of being a phony because you've been wearing your armor. She doesn't have compassion for the fact that the only reason you've been wearing it is because you felt inadequate in some way." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"To prevent local supplies from altering a soda's standardized taste, most water used in soft drinks is normally filtered of all impurities or is manufactured using distilled water. Ironically, the Coca-Cola Company bottles and sells water (under the name Dasani) purified by the reverse osmosis method, which removes fluoride from water, but their soda actually contains fluoride. Presumably, Dasani is the same water they use to make their soft drinks and it would make sense that Coke should actually be fluoride free. That it isn't would indicate that they are purposefully adding fluoride back in." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"A recent trend in response to growing concern about the obesity epidemic has been the inclusion of healthier items on children's menus at fast-food establishments, including offering fruit choices as an alternative to French fries and low-fat milk as an alternative to soda. However, observations that fast-food establishments continue to offer menu items with excessive portion sizes despite recommendations to reduce portion sizes and public assertions by these companies that they will make changes, voluntary efforts to reduce portion sizes are unlikely to be effective [201]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"According to the Evanston Public Library in Illinois, the sundae was invented in Evanston around 1890 by a local druggist who added syrup on top of an ice cream soda. The city fathers felt it was so good that it was sinful to serve it on Sunday, after church. The druggist got around the ordinance by serving ice cream with syrup but without the soda. The sodaless ice cream soda was named a "sundae" to avoid confusion with "Sunday." More ice cream is sold on Sundays than on any other day of the week." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

"Putnam [184] reports that the typical fast-food outlet's hamburger in 1957 contained a little more than 1 ounce of cooked meat, compared with up to 6 ounces in 1997. soda pop was 8 ounces in 1957, compared with 32 ounces to 64 ounces in 1997. A theater serving of popcorn was 3 cups in 1957, compared with 16 cups (medium size popcorn) in 1997. A muffin was less than 1.5 ounces in 1957, compared with 5-8 ounces in 1997. Smiciklas-Wright et al." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"While my husband ordered me a club soda, I held on to the bar as if it were a life raft. The drink arrived at exactly the same time as the executives, who took one look at me and started talking excitedly in French, asking my husband what was wrong. Naturally, the translator had not yet arrived and my husband could not speak French, so I began pointing at the club soda while clutching my stomach, thinking those gestures might send the message. The executives continued to look at me and back at one another with widened eyes, worriedly chattering." - Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.)

"The term negative bubble always reminds me of watching a sealed plastic soda bottle filled with warm air gradually implode as it cools, and seeing it pop back into shape when the cap is loosened—though this metaphor is really no more apt than the soap bubble metaphor for positive speculative events.) Price continues to decline until further price decreases begin to seem unlikely, at which point there is no reason for people to want to stay away from the stock and the negative bubble fills back up—even though, as with positive bubbles, the burst will probably not be sudden." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"All sugar foods, including cakes, candies, and soda pop' They negatively affect the body in a number of ways. They are all acid forming in the body, which we'll talk more about in Chapter 13. They are all converted to triglycerides in the body and stored as fat. And they all rank high on the glycemic index (with no redeeming nutritional value such as the fruits and vegetables that are also high on the glycemic index). The Glycemic Index The glycemic index, and identifying high-glycemic foods, is one of the hot areas of nutritional science right now." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Yes, if you're on the road and you're thirsty, picking up some bottled water at a 7-11 is a better alternative than drinking from the water fountain or buying some coffee or soda. Fluoride At the risk of being accused of being a Luddite, let's take a look at the use of fluoride in our drinking water. Exactly what is water fluoridation? In fact, all watet contains some fluoride. Fluoridation is the process of adjusting the level of fluotide in the water supply to theoretically protect against tooth decay. This concentration varies from 0.7 to 1.2 parts per million (ppm)." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Cut way back on acid-producing foods such as meat, dairy, sugar, soda pop, refined grains, etc. Add alkalinizing foods to your diet. Drink water that has been magnetized. Magnetizing can raise the pH by as much as one full point, depending on the water. One final thought on pH. It really makes sense to test the pH of your saliva on a regular basis as a touchstone of your overall health. You can pick up pH paper specifically designed for this purpose at most health food stores." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"All commercial alcohols—wines, beers, liquor. soda pop. All second-half life cycle food produce. All white—salt, sugar, vinegar, bread, pasta, rice, pasteurized and homogenized milk. Garden Produce When garden produce is grown commercially to be large-sized through the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, mineral-depleted soil, and poor quality water, it is lacking in gv and wl. Likewise, if it is harvested in its second half life cycle, it is deficient in gv and wl. The same can be said for average garden produce that reaches large sizes after months of growth." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Fluoridated, chlorinated or otherwise contaminated water. soda water and carbonated beverages. Caffeine, nicotine, sugar, table salt, red meats (to a large extent), strong spices, chocolate (made with sugar), trans fats and hydrogenated oils, fried foods, dairy products (except unsalted butter in moderation), refined grains and flours and their products, nonorganic-source or high potency or synthetic vitamin and mineral supplements, 'enriched' foods and foods with chemical additives. Genetically altered foods. ?Cereals, grains, and seeds that are processed, boxed, puffed, flaked." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Make a spritzer by adding seltzer water, club soda, or sparkling mineral water to your citrus juice. þMake a sunrise drink by pouring V3 cup cranberry juice into your glass with 2A cup orange juice. þBlend orange juice and grapefruit juices for a citrus blend. þMake a citrus freeze by popping juice and crushed ice into a blender. 11. STIR IN A SPOONFUL OF GROUND FLAXSEED Ground flaxseed seems to have synergy within itself on many levels, through fiber, lignans (plant estrogens), and plant omega-3s." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

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