I’m not even going to get into the diet vs. regular argument. There are some nasty stats I can share on that alone, but the point of this post is that soda in general should be avoided.
Don’t get me wrong. I used to LOVE soda and drink it ALL the time. In fact, if I’m around soda, it’s still a temptation for me. My husband, being a computer programmer, used to run on Mountain Dew and Twizzlers as his fuel. Thankfully, we both wised up. Then information like this comes out that reminds us why we decided to seriously give up soda.
Besides, we want our bodies to be less acidic, if we want long, healthy living, right? If so, soda is certainly not the beverage we should be consuming.
I can understand the desire to drink a soda now and then, especially on your splurge nights, like maybe Friday pizza nights. However, if you choose, like we do sometimes, to have a healthier pizza night, or just need that fizz of soda on an ordinary day, there are alternatives. In my Mick’s up with the Sweeteners, I mention a soda sweetened with stevia, which I am finding in more and more grocery stores now.
Another idea is to make your own soda at home! We’ve had fun doing that with our soda maker we have left over from our coffee shop ownership days. There is also the Sodastream Penguin Starter Kit
. For our house, we choose to find healthy fruit juice or mix up juice from freshly squeezed lemons and limes. This way, we get the fizz and yummy flavors without the sugar and other gross ingredients that would harm our bodies. We still have lots more 
experimenting to do, so if you have any ideas, please leave them in a comment here, or write on the Mick’s up facebook wall. Thanks for dropping by!
Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do…
Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.’
But God said to him, ‘You fool!’
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