Diet Soda And Weight Gain

by Jhet Bhlak on July 26, 2010

I found a very nice video on the effects diet soda and the reasons why it causes you to gain weight even though it has zero calories. In short it has to do with the acidity of foods. Foods that convert to acid as opposed to alkaline in your system mess with the minerals in your body and with your metabolism by messing with your thyroid. I highly suggest that everyone watches this video. It explains an incredible about in a very simple, easy to understand way.

If you want to check your PH you can buy some Litmus Strips and check it whenever you’d like!

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2010 Walk Now For Autism Speaks: Chicago

May 12, 2010
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So a good friend of mine is participating in the 2010 Walk Now event for Autism Speaks in Chicago on Saturday, May 15th and I just couldn’t let her sit at only 68% of her donation goal. So I donated the other 32% she needed
If anyone else is feeling generous, please feel free [...]

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Ammonia And Fast Food / School Lunches

April 29, 2010
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I’ve talked about fast food a couple of times on this blog. And I’ve noticed that people often find this site by looking for reasons that fast food is bad for you. Well I’ve just found another compelling reason why you should skip the fast food. What is disturbing though is that school lunches have [...]

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Quit Smoking Effects

April 22, 2010
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I found this information through a link on someones Facebook page. It’s about what happens when you stop smoking. It gives you the benefits of quitting cigarettes as time goes on:

In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream [...]

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Gall Bladder Surgery

April 20, 2010
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Well mom had her gall bladder surgery last Thursday and is fine. The surgery took no time at all actually. We arrived at the hospital at around noon. She went into the surgery prep at around 12:30 or so. Then we waited until 2:30ish for the surgery to start.
At that point neither me nor moms [...]

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AntiBacterial Soaps Part 2

April 8, 2010
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Back in May of 2009 I wrote a post about how the overuse of antibacterial soaps was causing antibiotic resistant bacteria such as MSRA. Well it looks like there is more information out about the negative impact of the soaps.
The article on MSN talks about triclosan and its use in soaps and other household products [...]

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Gall Bladder

April 1, 2010
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So my mom was having trouble a few weeks ago when she was eating foods with a lot of fats in them.  Everyone she talked to was telling her it sounded like a gall bladder attack. So she went to her doctor to find out if that was what it was.
The doctor said that her [...]

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Haiti Bound!

March 25, 2010
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This is something that I have mixed feelings about. My father has decided to go to Haiti for a couple of weeks and help with the disaster relief efforts. You see he works for the FAA and they have a program where you can sign up to be a volunteer for relief efforts. Well he [...]

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Dry Eye Second Opinion

March 18, 2010
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About a month ago I had another dry eye incident. This time it happened on a Monday and it was bad enough that I had to miss work. The problem is that before it was completely healed it happened again. I didn’t miss work the second time but when it happens twice in a row [...]

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Vitamin D And Cancer

March 1, 2010
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I just watched a video from ABC on vitamin D and cancer that I found interesting. They were talking to professor Joellen Welsh from the State University of New York and apparently, preliminary studies indicate that a potent form of  vitamin D kills cancer cells in test tubes and in mice. I guess some of [...]

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