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I used to drink an entire 12-pack of regular Coca-cola in only one or two days. I thought I would be able to cure myself of the addiction, or at least be healthier if I switched to Diet Coke, but no such luck. I finally figured out it wasn’t the Coke…it was the caffeine found [...]

Countless numbers of dieters consume Diet Coke thinking that it is inert to their diet efforts. After all, it’s called Diet Coke, right? Wrong. Diet Coke, regardless of how many calories it has, wreaks havoc on your fat loss efforts and will ultimately cause you to gain weight. There are two main reasons for the [...]

image from DietCoke.com If you think people are hooked on Coke, it seems like Diet Coke has added a new meaning to the word addicted. It’s not hard to find someone who drinks several cans a day. Everyone seems to think that it’s totally fine for your body, since it doesn’t have any calories. In [...]

The Food and Drug Administration has been busy this week, and I think what it is saying warrants a wake-up call—especially for women. Yesterday, the agency said it issued a warning letter to Coca-Cola noting that its Diet Coke Plus soft drink had nutritional claims that shouldn’t be placed on an utterly nonnutritious soft drink. [...]

For some DMers like us, caffeine or other stimulants can result in higher blood sugar. Your experiment to cut down/out on Diet Coke might help you see if that’s the culprit. Sometimes, in our early stages with Type 1, we have what’s called a honeymoon, during which time (which can last for about a year) [...]

So it’s not just your imagination, it actually is true. Those zero-calorie sodas people are popping left and right and up and down, ordering with their cheeseburgers and large fries and drinking instead of coffee in the morning or wine at night, actually lead to (or, as they say in medical-speak, “are linked to”) metabolic [...]

Blood in Urine (Hematuria) Medical Authors: Gary D. Steinberg, MD, and G. Joel DeCastro, MD Medical Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD What is blood in urine (hematuria)? What are the causes of blood in urine? How is blood in urine diagnosed? How is blood in urine treated? Blood in Urine (Hematuria) At A Glance Patient [...]

Getting back to Coca-Cola’s partnership with women’s heart health †it has to be pointed out that soda is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is actually the number one source of calories in the United States, and it is very clear that it is the primary cause of the obesity epidemic. If you [...]

Hey, Blisstree Reader! We recently updated this Coke post, and also just posted two brand-new ones: What Happens to Your Body After You Drink a Coke Every Day, For a Long Time and Drink Diet Coke For Good Health? Not So Much., which many of you commented on wanting to know more about. Read on, [...]

High Blood Pressure Diet: the DASH Diet Written by Gloria Tsang, RD of HealthCastle.com last updated: January 2006 (HealthCastle.com) High blood pressure often has no symptoms or warning signs. If it stays elevated above 120/80 mmHg over time and is uncontrolled, it can lead to heart and kidney disease as well as stroke. High Blood [...]