... cleansing would leave me feeling renewed and healthier. I must admit, I almost fell off the wagon a couple of times, and went on a binge in the days following the diet coke free week. Soda is just about everywhere. It seemed as if every market or vending machine was calling my name. Part of the reason the week was so hard is that I don't like many other drinks. I hate ... this is all just a misunderstanding. "Aspartame is a safe and suitable sweetener. Prior to its approval aspartame underwent one of the most thorough scientific reviews ever conducted." So, NutraSweet is not going to ki...

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... up again, turn on the light, and burst into tears. After my little "episode" my sleeping problems progressed, but this time I brought them on myself. I did anything I could to stay awake. I drank coffee and Coke, digested mass amounts of sugar, I even took 'No Doze,' an over the counter caffeine pill. Forty ... eight hours later, I was completely exhausted and I finally gave in to my body's plea for sleep. The next morning I woke up feeling rested, and when it hit ... get any worse than this. But was I wrong. I began showing signs of depression. Not only did I have trouble sleeping I b...

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... person consumes has an immediate and profound impact on their mood and mental energy. A child who comes home, has potato chips and Coke in the afternoon, pizza with little or no cheese on it for dinner and ice cream for dessert has been priming himself with carbohydrates for several ... hours. When it comes time to do homework, that child will [have difficulty] because of sleepiness and lethargy. As quoted in Jean Carper's The Food Pharmacy from Judith Wurtman, a researcher at MIT. Though carbohydrates are necessary for stamina because of their complexity, eating too much of them on ... ...

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