The truth about soda and soft drinks

Phosphorus is found in soda and soft drinks. Your body neutralizes the acid with calcium.  If you don't have enough protein in your daily, your body takes it from your bones. You must drink 33 glasses of water to neutralize a 10 oz glass of soda.  So, please lower or delete soda and soft drinks from your diet. read more

Most people aren't aware of this but my resolution for 2008 was to stop drinking sodas. It's not that I object to them or anything but I noticed that I had been consuming them far too much: breakfast, lunch, dinner and every other waking second. I consumed my last soda (a one liter Pepsi) on New Year's Eve and I quit cold turkey. I'm proud to announce that 8 months later, I have not consumed a single carboated beverage and for that matter I have not even had a drop of caffeine all year. I mostly...

Yup, second day here and what did we do? We hit up Disneyland of course. Hell yeah. There will be many many pics to come but since its almost 1am and I'm lazy, they are not yet uploaded. So a rundown as follows: Disneyland is about the coolest place you can ever visit on this planet. Isabella - naturally - LOVED it. She went on the monsters inc ride first, then we saw the muppets 3d (which still required glasses but oddly enough not the stupid red/blue colored lenses - and shit they did a good...

Hey it’s nice to see some environmentally aware people on my friends list. I am by no means perfect or totally “green”. In fact, I am just fully learning about it myself. It’s baby steps – it’s the little things that add up to so much more.   I recently compiled these factoids, which really put things in perspective, especially in regards to our collective impact on the environment, and the simple preventative measures we can take every day.   Recycle, Reduce, Reuse -- why you ask...

Personal Health: You Are Also What You Drink By JANE E. BRODY; NYTimes; March 27, 2007 What worries you most? Decaying teeth, thinning bones, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, cancer, obesity? Whatever tops your list, you may be surprised to know that all of these health problems are linked to the beverages you drink — or don’t drink. Last year, with the support of the Unilever Health Institute in the Netherlands (Unilever owns Lipton Tea), a panel of experts on nutrition and health...

This special fWEo presentation opened in Sphere's office, as most fWEo programs do. His guest? Jackhammer. Yes, his former tag team partner, for those of you who either don't remember or simply choose to ignore that fact. "Ah...A-Train." "Jackhammer." "I'm sorry, my mistake. So, Nathan Jones...I've called you into my office for a reason. Yes, that's right. It's not like you just magically appeared in here just so we could get you on the show. You're worthless anyway. I mean, who would...