It's either Coke or Pepsi, if it's neither what do you drink?

When it comes to ranking beverages best for our health, sugary drinks fall at the bottom of the list because they provide so many calories and virtually no other nutrients. People who drink sugary beverages do not feel as full as if they had eaten the same calories from solid food, and research indicates they also don’t compensate for the high caloric content of these beverages by eating less food.

The average can of sugar-sweetened soda or fruit punch provides about 150 calories, almost all of them from added sugar. If you were to drink just one of these sugary drinks every day, and not cut back on calories elsewhere, you could gain up to 5 pounds in a year.

Beyond weight gain, routinely drinking these sugar-loaded beverages can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic diseases. Furthermore, higher consumption of sugary beverages has been linked with an increased risk of premature death.
Harvard School of Public Health.
 

Coffee in the morning, LMNT electrolytes, water, ice tea, and Zevia. I don't have the ice tea or Zevia every day but they are always in the fridge.
 
The only non-water thing I drink is beer. I like to have one or two on a hot day particularly if I've been working out side and when I got out for a meal as well. I drink Sleeman's 2.0, a somewhat local light beer, at 4% alc/vol with 2 grams of carbs, zero grams of sugar & 80 calories per 355 ml serving (1 can).
Coke on the other hand has 35.2 grams of carbs, 38 grams of sugar & 136 calories per 355 ml serving. Of course no alcohol content in Coke. I imaging Pepsi is similar.
Don't drink coffee very often and only tried tea twice in my life. Didn't like the taste of it either time.
 
MrPants said:
The only non-water thing I drink is beer. I like to have one or two on a hot day particularly if I've been working out side and when I got out for a meal as well. I drink Sleeman's 2.0, a somewhat local light beer, at 4% alc/vol with 2 grams of carbs, zero grams of sugar & 80 calories per 355 ml serving (1 can).
Coke on the other hand has 35.2 grams of carbs, 38 grams of sugar & 136 calories per 355 ml serving. Of course no alcohol content in Coke. I imaging Pepsi is similar.
Don't drink coffee very often and only tried tea twice in my life. Didn't like the taste of it either time.
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Look around for this one...Flying Monkeys Brewery, in Barrie. They have a 11 percent skull popper beer, and a few others in the 7 to 9 percent range. A pub in Kingston makes "Dragon's Breath " as a in house specialty. The last time I was in Nassau, in The Bahamas, Sleeman's was a big seller with the expat Canadians who live there. JimB.
 
Grew up amongst a soda WAR! One half drank only Pepsi products (according to grand-uncle, flat leftover Pepsi is the best brass cleaner for WWII medals). The other side drank only Coca-Cola products (there was a time, so I've been told the story, Coca-Cola actually contained Cocaine, was sold exclusively at Chemist by prescription and for specific ailments)

I drank these following brands: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7Up (when it was still called Uptown), Sprite, Spruce Beer (the white one from grocery stores/The brown one by PureSpring brand from dépanneur corner shops) TAB Diet Soda. PureSpring Grapefruit, Grape and Ginger Ale.

Dr Pepper, Fanta Lemonade (Pink and Yellow), also their Orangeade, Cherryade, Tizzer, Dandelion and Burdock, IrunBrew.

These days it's Cola either from Lidl or Aldi, these stores own brand of Pepsi as well as Icy Lemonade, Pink Icy Lemonade, Fiery Ginger Beer and Cider. Summers have seen me downing bottle after bottles of Lipton Lemon Iced Tea and at Christmas time, I enjoy Root Beer.

Yup, that about covers my 6 decades 🤣🤣🤣
 
jimintoronto said:
Look around for this one...Flying Monkeys Brewery, in Barrie. They have a 11 percent skull popper beer, and a few others in the 7 to 9 percent range. A pub in Kingston makes "Dragon's Breath " as a in house specialty. The last time I was in Nassau, in The Bahamas, Sleeman's was a big seller with the expat Canadians who live there. JimB.
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Unfortunately I'm not a fan of high alcohol brews or any beer with strong malt/hops taste which eliminates most craft beers. I prefer the lighter clean tasting lagers. I know that's not what many beer connoisseurs prefer but, oh well 🤷‍♂️
 
I drink green tea all day but for lunch I have 2 Cokes. You would think I'm the worst person ever for drinking cola. I'm close to the end of my life and if I want sugar for lunch let me have it. I have had so many angry responses from people about my nasty 'coke' habit. My dentist doesn't. I don't even drink this is my biggest vice.
WHOA! I vented. Thank you!
 
Actually, both Coke and Pepsi are really bad for your health. Ditto for the so called Sugar Free stuff too.

I never drink Coke, unless I need a good shot of rum. Watching the news these days wants to make me drink more and more rum. So, I confess that I do drink Coke because pure "Sailor Jerry" is 92 proof or 46% alcohol. You really can't last too long drinking that stuff without Coke. Guess my "hands are tied."
 

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For decades I didn't drink either because I suffered with atrial fibrillation and caffeine exacerbates the problem. Plus a friend's father worked where they made one of the colas and said if people knew what was in them, they wouldn't drink them. Then there was the thing that colas could take the paint off cars. Anyway, my choice is root beer when I'm at a restaurant. Over the last couple of decades, I can count the times on one hand that I bought sodas for the house.

After my cardiac ablation, after which I didn't experience A-fib for more than two years, I tried a Pepsi at a restaurant. To me it tasted funny and it was from the bottle (or can). I also tried a Coke at some point. I have no desire to drink either again.
 
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