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For about 5 years, I used to drink 3 2-liter bottles of Dew a day. Cut way back to only 5 or 6 12-ounce cans. After 18 years of trying to get me to stop drinking Mt. Dew completely, my nephrologist has finally accepted my only vice.
I used to drink a can or 2 of Coke every day, hitting the soda machine at work as soon as I got there like most people did with the coffee machine. For years I juggled both and several times I cut both out of my diet. Now my routine is coffee in the AM and an occasionall Coke if I'm out and about. If I ever do buy it to have in the house I get caffine free and a 6 pack will last for months, I just don't crave it anymore.
Our granddaughter drinks it right out of the 2 liter bottles. She is addicted to Dr Pepper. I have never seen her drink a cup of coffee, I have only seen her have liqour maybe 2 or 3 times (champagne on holidays maybe) and she takes really good care of herself, but oh how she loves the Dr Pepper.
Nita
When other folk's read a comment like this how can they not see that the reason for all the diabetes/obese people is the food industry engineering our foods to be addictive for greater profits.
My husband and daughter both drink several cans/glasses of soda every day. The only time I drink any is if we are out and stop at a convenience store and I get a fountain diet pepsi.
My favorite drink is a McDonald's Coke with extra ice. However, my last drop of Coke was on November 29, 2005. My waist was getting larger and I decided to stop cold turkey. My waist never got smaller, I never lost weight, and I wish that I had never stopped. I have not added anything to replace it, except that I exercise more, but I am afraid to start drinking it again. No idea what would happen if I did. When I'm 80, I'm going back to it!
It's not just your teeth it harms, it's your bones.
I broke my leg a few years ago. It was a bad break. I fell down in the mud and the bone snapped bad enough that I had to have surgery to put in a plate and screws. I was in my 20's and the docs were trying to figure out how I had an injury that was usually seen in motorcycle accidents, just from falling down. I had been drinking diet coke instead of water or anything else for ten years. Sometimes I drank three liters a day. They told me if I ever wanted to walk again, I couldn't drink any more soda with phosphoric acid.
So I drank water until the xrays showed that the bone had healed completely, and then I started drinking a little soda again, but none with phosphoric acid. Diet Big red doesn't have any...although apparently they're going to be replacing it with Big Red Zero, which does. At that point I'll be back to bottled water with Crystal Lite Peach Mango green tea added to it.
I'm getting a big tickle from the responses here that admit that soda is a 'gotta have' in their lives.
Addiction is the same be it hard illegal drugs or (MY GOD! ) smoking!!
Soda is now a known harmful substance to take into the body but since it's billed as "soft drink" sold to all ,especially children, it is ignore by all as benign.
When at the end of the day is just as harmful to the human body as smoking is if not more so since it is hiding in plain sight.
Don't'cha just love the American mind set?
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) smoking!! 
