1. Posted by The Fit Doc on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 7:20 am PDT

Very important blog post! Many people don't think about all the sugary calories they drink! Juices are a culprit, too. Sugar and calorie-wise, they are very similar to soda. Also, make sure to limit the soda intake of your kids! It is estimated that 25% of all kids will be overweight by 2015. Time for a change! ~Kevin J Kane, MD. TheFitDoc.com

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2. Posted by jib7731@ameritech.net on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 10:15 am PDT

I think your information was very important for a fat person like me who is trying to lose weight and stay healthy. I have read other messages written by you and found them all good for use in my quest to be smaller.

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3. Posted by Buzzy on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 10:18 am PDT

unleash the diet nazis!!

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4. Posted by blondetravelnut on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 10:23 am PDT

i DRINK A VANILLA CAPPUCINO WITH REG. MILK AND EXTRA CREAM AT mCdONALDS AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK. i NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE CALORIES AND 7-11 STORES ALSO HAS CAPPUCINO WHICH i ADD 4 LITTLE CREAMERS TOO. bOTH OF THESE ARE 16 OZ. WOULD YOU KNOW HOW MANY CALORIES THESE DRINKS HAVE AS i'VE BEEN GAINING WEIGHT AND DON'T WANT TO.

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5. Posted by bntmcbrayer on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 11:48 am PDT

serioulsy at this point nothing is good for you anymore it's getting totally out of hand, can't eat anything can't drink anything what the @#*# is going on

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6. Posted by princess on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 12:50 pm PDT

#5--nbtmcbrayer, I know right? Totally out of hand.

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7. Posted by vtcharlest on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 1:09 pm PDT

Just like guns don’t kill people – people kill people: drinks don’t make people fat – people make themselves fat. Drinks like orange juice, apple juice and the like are excellent rewards for people when they eat health. Case in point: I have put my girlfriend on a reward based diet which has dramatically improved her appearance and self confidence. She got lazy with exercise when she was pregnant with our third child and ended up putting on about 20 lbs from when we found out she was pregnant. Because she used the children as an excuse why she didn’t have time to exercise during the day I removed access to cash and made her turn in itemized receipts with credit card transactions. She was a big fan of those starbucks drinks. We weighed her twice a day and if she lost 3 or more lbs at the end of the week she could spend as much money on starbucks as she wanted the next week and have as much juice as she wanted (I restricted her to only water during the weeks she wasn’t loosing weight). Needless to say her whole attitude has changed and we are both back to being happy!

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8. Posted by Peter T on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 2:10 pm PDT

This is so true!! Ive applied a system to my current g/f, its called "Is it approved to consume!!!". When ever she reaches to eat ANYTHING she must make sure that I would allow her to choose the item to eat. I ve instilled a stick discipline on her eating habits and enforce them with tough consequences. She is now down to a size 2 (from a 6) and has never been happier!! The key to my system is enforcement, I constantly monitor her with bi-weekly weight ins and measurements and have set courses of actions to take if she fails multiple times (a strike system I set up)

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9. Posted by dentalandhealthplan on Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 5:21 pm PDT

the big problem is that people buy it...it don't matter what is said, it matters what is done...and you can tell people not to drink these rich sugar laden acidic drinks, but the fact is, if there's a starbucks on every street corner like there is, then a lot of people are going to be drinking a lot of lattes and they will likely develop health problems as a result and that ok for prescription drug producers, many of which dont mind making a large profit. But yeah the overall ideas is great. check my health blog at http://www.myspace.com/ameriplanner A way you can save up to 80% on dental care with a discount plan that cost less than $20 a month http://www.dentalandhealthplan.com Google keywords: "Ameriplan press, dental plan, health plan, health nutrition, food, diet, healthy eating, health care" Unfortunately, the private market is a complete failure. Why is this? The one reason is lobbyists. The political "leeches" of the "system" of government. They take big money from corporate and private donors and they donate it in the form of political contributions and "charity" or "philanthropy". These tend to be ideological agendas. People and companies that want society to operate according to their "corporate law". Most wouldn't go so far as to blame any one source in particular since it most surely comes from innumerable sources. The biggest source most definitely the large corporations. For a long time health care has been a managed system. Managed by a health insurance company such as Keiser, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cobra, Farmers Insurance or any other of their countless sub-companies and agents. This is the plague in the corporate industry. Company buyouts squeeze demand through a narrow gateway allowing prices to rise across the board, ultimately making it to the end user.

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10. Posted by meatballhead_moon_princess on Fri, Aug 17, 2007, 6:55 am PDT

This seems ridiculous. 2/3 of Americans are overweight because they are lazy, indulgent, and ignorant. When articles have to explain to the average flabby joe how to figure out that there is a difference between a SERVING and a BOTTLE of soda, or explain that latte has a lot of calories, or that lots of sugar is unhealthy, why bother writing the article? These people are doing far more than drinking calories, they're eating, drinking, breathing them, or they're just not exercising (most likely both). It's called Natural Selection for a reason, for all those who don't accept evolution as plausible, look around at all the morbidly obese (which isn't hard to find) and all the ridiculous things they allow themselves to ingest and tell me there's nothing wrong with them either mentally(ignorance) or emotionally(dependence issues). Being overweight is only a physical manifestation of a mental weakness. Survival of the Fittest is what nature intends, and telling fat people to stop drinking lattes and JUICE might be a good place to start (although I disagree with the juice part, I doubt the overweight are getting the correct vitamin content in all those double cheeseburgers) but reminding everyone that the food we eat is horrible for us and that our level of physical activity is beginning to mimic a sloth's might be the bigger and better point to make. There are towns in Europe that eat nothing buy hearty rich carb and fat loaded foods, drink wine, eat sweets, and yet they're perfectly healthy because they have less stress, and are all physically active, and their weight, which naturally is still there, does not affect them with heart disease, cancer, diabetes and the plights of the overweight American, and I'm sure they're all allowed to drink as much juice and as many lattes as they like.

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11. Posted by desirebystarlight on Fri, Aug 17, 2007, 10:38 am PDT

Some observations here. I have to wonder how many other countries sweeten their juices, teas or sodas with high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners unnecessarily. Commercialized drinks used to be sweetened with sugar at the most but that all changed. Companies started adding other chemicals and refined ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, saccharin, and artificial sweeteners to them at the expense of the consumers health. Now we pay more money to get something in an organic state the way it was meant to be. Food manufacturers are insidious with putting artificial sweeteners and high fructose corn syrup into everything whether we want it there or not. Artificial sweeteners have already shown up in regular candy. Bad enough it had already used high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener in it but they had to top it off with that. Read your labels if you want no part of the artifical sweetener world. Do we honestly need artificial sweeteners mixed in with regular sugar? Who's the sick loser that thought that up? Where do we draw the line at making something too sweet? Don't mindlessly throw in your usual drinks and food anymore without reading the label because it's worse than ever before. Juice is a good place to start to watch your calories. Only get what's 100% natural or sweetened with another juice. Don't buy anything with high fructose corn syrup in it. Get tea without artificial sweeteners or sugars in them. Give up the soda. Drink coffee black. Drink more water if you can't handle the acidity of it. Coffee isn't meant to be drowned in tons of cream and sugar.

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12. Posted by vferguson3139 on Fri, Aug 17, 2007, 4:47 pm PDT

i like to diet spirt and lemon soda what is the colorie intake also cappucino

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13. Posted by Dave on Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 4:49 am PDT

I've found a nice replacement for the sugary colas I used to drink, and Joy actually pointed me in the right direction in another post. Check out the Diet/Fitness area at (cut/paste) xs.gambrill.com for a full line of low/no carb, 10 calorie drinks to energize your day.

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14. Posted by yourfavoritewebsites on Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 7:34 am PDT

#7 & #8 - What do you mean you "allow" your girlfriends to do things? That to me seems scarier than a few extra pounds.

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15. Posted by yourfavoritewebsites on Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 11:36 am PDT

#7 & #8 - What do you mean you "allow" your girlfriends to do things? That to me seems scarier than a few extra pounds.

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