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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2179592" data-attributes="member: 11697">This whole idea of 'toxins' in the diet is generally a bunch of hooey you see in health food stores. Green Tea may taste yummy and have a decent amount of vitamins in it, but it's nothing special.And that's completely false. Most diet sodas have 0 calories and at most 1 or 2% of your daily intake of sodium. Many diet sodas have no sodium at all. It's a myth that diet soda is bad for you when you're dieting.Diet soda has literally no impact on your diet unless you're drinking liters of it per day over a prolonged period of time (in which case it might impact your kidneys in the long term due to the caramel color used in darker sodas. However you'd be 100 times worse off if it was regular soda you were drinking, or even tap water in many areas).I personally lost 50lbs in under a year and have kept it off for around 7 years now. What you eat and how much you eat doesn't matter, just your caloric intake and how many calories you use per day in terms of activity. That's it. There's no magic about certain foods etc. Any diet can conceivably work, but some may be easier to handle, or keep you less hungry (Atkins type diets tends to make you full faster but can also raise cholesterol depending on what you're eating).Caffeine is neither good nor bad. Caffeine by itself increases fatty acid metabolism, this isn't up for debate. Recently there are slight indications that in some people it may increase insulin resistance. However the jury is still out on this one, and it's a single study that in some ways contradicts several other previous studies that I've seen. That study also used pure caffeine and not caffeine in coffee or tea where it would be mixed with other compounds, may of which are healthy in and of themselves as well.And for an anecdote: I'm on about 4-6 shots of espresso a day and it's not hurting me.Water is pushed around a lot, but it won't do much besides maybe trick your body into thinking its not as hungry. There's also a lot of myths about how the average person doesn't get enough water, or people are chronically dehydrated, etc etc and that's all complete bunk. It can't hurt you in normal amounts, though every year a few people die of drinking too much water in a given period of time, but that's very VERY rare. If you're doing a lot of exercise however, it's good to replenish what you lose by perspiration.</blockquote>

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