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  • Khloe Kardashian Credits Giving Up Soda As One Component of Her Successful Weight Loss

    Khloe Kardashian is looking good. She has worked out solo at the gym and worked with a personal trainer as part of her her weight loss regime. Something else the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star credits for aiding in her successful weight loss isn’t something she’s done. It’s something she’s given up instead. Khloe has stopped drinking soda–even diet soda.

    “I think all diets are kind of weird. The word ‘die’ is in it,” Khloe Kardashian said Monday during an interview with an Australian radio show. “I believe in lifestyle changes, and when you think of something long term, you do it better. If I know I just have to eat this way for a week, how does that help you for the long term? It doesn’t.”

    As everyone who has struggled with weight loss has likely learned, success comes by making a series of lifestyle changes.

    “I’ve made major cutbacks. I used to love soda. So I’ve cut out soda completely and I’ll drink iced tea or water for what I drink throughout my day. I just made that like a lifestyle change,” she explained. “I’ll do like one thing, like, a month. I’ll just cut something off little by little, and then it just becomes like a part of your life. You don’t even think about it.”

    Diet soda not only promotes weight gain, it is very unhealthy because of the aspartame in it. Diet soda tricks the body into thinking it has consumed sugar–hence the tendency for dieters who drink it to actually gain weight.

    Khloe Kardashian sings the praises of her personal trainer, too. She works with Gunnar Peterson.

    “I’m just obsessed with him. I really am. He has changed my body, but he’s not militant. I’m not paying you to yell at me. I want someone who’s motivating and encouraging, like if they are proud of you for even being there that day,” she said.

    “Gunner is, like, really proud and sweet and positive in that way, and also he comes from a place of ‘yes.’ So if I’m like, ‘I want Beyoncé’s booty,’ he’ll say, ‘Okay, we’re gonna do that.’ He’s not like, ‘Well, you can’t because you’re a foot taller than her.’ He just is very positive,” Khloe Kardashian added.

    Khloe Kardashian is looking sexy and fit these days. Her weight loss plan has been sensible and healthy.

    Giving up soda will no doubt have a twofold benefit for the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star. It will likely help her keep off the weight she’s already lost.

  • Soda Meth Study Reveals Bad News For Your Teeth

    Soda may be as damaging to your teeth as meth or crack in the long run, according to a recently released study. The study claims that the damage done by high soda consumption combined with a lack of proper dental hygiene can do damage that is substantially similar to “meth mouth.”

    (Do yourself a favor and do not do a Google Image search for meth mouth. You can thank me later.)

    The study was conducted by Dr. Mohamed Bassiouny. Bassiouny works at Temple University School of Dentistry as a professor of restorative dentistry. In the study, recently published in the journal General Dentistry, Bassiouny compares the damage done by various kinds of substances, including soda, crack, and meth.

    While the weight loss benefits of diet soda are debatable, Bassiouny says that when it comes to damaging your teeth, there is little difference between diet soda and regular. The reason for this is that they have comparable acid content – citric acid and phosphoric acid, to be precise. Regular exposure to these acids without proper hygiene can do catastrophic damage to the teeth in the long term.

    Fortunately for all you soda fiends out there, the damage from soda is much easier to mitigate than the damage from meth. One of the soda-drinking subjects of the study was a woman in her 30s who had been consuming two liters of soda every day for five years, and had not been to see a dentist in 20 years. That suggests that a little work to keep your teeth healthy can help prevent some of the damage soda can do. Brush regularly, go to the dentist at least once a year, preferably twice, and don’t drink an entire 2-liter per day, and you should be fine.

    Other subjects of the study included a 29-year-old man who had been using meth regularly for three years, as well as drinking 2-3 cans of soda per day. Another was a 51-year-old crack user. All three subjects had to have their teeth extracted and replaced with dentures.