As hard as I try, I cannot eliminate sodas from my "menu." We all have favorite foods on our personal menus, and I've tried to kick the soda thing because of all the unnecessary high fructose corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners in diet sodas, but alas I cannot do it. So, as a happy medium I went to find some alternatives, and thus I discovered the Whole Foods 365 line of sodas.
In the 365 sodas, they use pure cane sugar as the sweetener instead of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Now too much of any sugars is not good for you, but if you have to choose between the two, it's better to go with the natural sugar than the corn syrup which has gone through processing in order to increase its fructose content. It has been said that high fructose corn syrup is a main contributor to obesity and raising levels of diabetes.
For me, when I started eliminating HFCS from my diet, I found that it was easier for me to drop pounds. My other incentive for dropping the foods/drinks with HFCS was the fact that diabetes runs on both sides of my family. My philosophy is that it's better to start taking care of your health now, then when it becomes a problem.
