Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist, Brad Heineck physical therapist. Together we are the most famous physical therapists on the internet, in our opinion of course Bob
Seven reasons to give up diet soda, and we have a better drink. We have a better alternative
By the way, we'd had this discussion before we started, soda versus pop and you call it pop
I call it pop. Yeah, but in Milwaukee they call it soda, right when I moved down to Milwaukee
They didn't know what I was talking about when I said pop, yeah
Well, I told them a thing or two, I bet you did
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Because Brad and I as children were not liked and we're trying to turn things around, because we called it pop
Yeah, that's right. People being a smart alec. Bob and Brad.
so, you know first off there's studies and a lot of studies are coming out on pop and
Let's first talk about sugar sodas, the ones with sugar and they are definitely worse for you
Those studies are conclusive. They really put a lot of sugar in those
They're really a lot of empty calories
you're gonna add to your body. It's no good, less conclusive is the diet sodas
but there's a lot of them enough that are coming out to make you take pause and
So I would definitely
Moderate how much diet soda you're drinking, I'm gonna go over some of these studies
Some of them are not large studies and some of them had studies that kind of said the opposite thing
Sure, but I want to bring them out so you can know what's out there
And again, it makes you take pause a little bit. So number one it confuses your body
so despite the fact that there's no sugar in it, it triggers your insulin yet because
Insulin thinks it is getting sugar which increases fat storage which increases weight gain
So it's a double whammy kind of a reverse
Even though you're not getting sugar your body thinks it's getting sugar and it's reacting like it is, that makes sense
So number two, it could lead to weight gain, not loss, the University of Texas
They had diet soda drinkers, 70% had increase in their waist circumference compared to the non drinkers, so
I notice a lot of people who may be overweight do drink diet soda
Well, I think what happens too
One of the other things they pointed out is that a lot of times they think because you drank the diet soda
And now you can eat a little more, and so
You know, they order a big thing of fries because they have the diet soda with it
in fact, it balances out, and it doesn't often so number three increased risk of type 2 diabetes
This is a University of Minnesota study
Oh, there you go and 36 percent had an increased risk of type 2 diabetes with diet soda
So again, you know, that's a large institution. That's not one to be to taken for granted I would say, right well in Minnesota
What are you saying?
It's a wonderful university. He's from Wisconsin. It's a good university, number four obviously it has no nutritional value
We can all agree on that, number five it may trigger headaches in some people and they think it's the aspartame
That it can actually
Set some of those off
It it can ruin your smile. It does increase tooth erosion. Sure
Even the diet soda
And number seven it may hurt your heart. And this is one that just came out increased risk of stroke and heart attack
This was the University of Miami that
Discovered this one. Well, you know Bob if I'm going to drink soda
I'm gonna drink the stuff with the sugar because it tastes better to me
Although I don't drink very much soda, but if I do
I just drink that and you can certainly either one you can drink, some in moderation,
There are people who have it in their house and it's a daily staple and those
I had a friend that was drinking 12 a day
I mean, yeah, and he finally went cold turkey and he had headaches and the whole bet because of the withdrawal of caffeine
Yeah, so this is a gift that was just given to me by my daughter. Oh, really? So, this is the SodaStream
I got it actually taken apart here a little bit
And what this does is this can you know put a little fizz into your water, carbonated, little fizz into your life
Yeah, so Jamie. So what happens here, well, actually I take that back
I think all my kids gave it to me. Oh, as a group gift, Jamie and Sarah gave it to me
Matt gave me a golf bag. Oh, so this is the Co2 tank that actually
screws into here
So I'm screwing it in there. I don't want to take it all the way out.
But in and out quite easily. Yeah, and this tank is
$30 when you buy it new but you can get it refilled like at Target or Walmart
For $15. Okay. So what I'm gonna plan do I'm gonna buy another tank and just have a spare
Then if you have a big party, you might want to grab buy a few of them. Right, right
My daughter said hers lasted her about a month and a half maybe two months and that's maybe one a day
Yeah one a day. I think I don't know that she does much more than that, but
I'm gonna warn you though. This thing has had you know
Out of five stars, it had three and a half stars. A lot of people were complaining
One it didn't work when they got it or it stopped working after a while. She's liked hers and
I like mine too, but I haven't had it that long to say for sure that it's gonna you know, keep working
But, I want to try it right now. Let's see what you think, let's have a go
Let's let everyone see, I've never tasted this before so I'm kind of excited. I'm gonna be the guinea pig, the test pig
Yeah, I wasn't gonna say that. But so anyway
It comes with this bottle here and you're supposed to fill it up to this line
now I'm gonna see if this does it right now because sometimes one thing
People complain about is that it would spill and it does, sometimes it spills when you put it in here
So it goes back like that. Alright, and so you're supposed to for light carbonation it says three times
So you just push the button down for a couple seconds
Oh yeah bubblies over, that's why we got a towel, and there's some times it really does
So generally what I end up doing
I don't fill it up to the line, I go a little bit lower than the line
So do you want more fizz or less fizz? Just a little more Bob, I'm feeling a little fizzy today
Alright and we'll go one more. That's five, and it's introduced it into that water then huh?
So now I want you to take some ice cubes Brad
Put them in the cup. Oh we got a little shot? Oh, yeah, you can do flavoring they come with these flavors
These are like the things you get on the airplane
And I I thought these were worthless to be honest. I could hardly take, there's alcohol in here. No, there's no alcohol
It's just flavoring. Yeah, you can do alcoholic drinks too I'm sure
But this is a family show. A lot of times the water is you're supposed to have like
Filtered as opposed to if you got tap water where you may have calcium
Because it can get up into the nozzle. You're not supposed to like fizz, you know, something like a pop and
Fizz it because it would get up into the nozzle and
Gum it up, microbes could grow up there and we don't want no microbes
So anyway, I just bought some lemon, you know, fairly inexpensive real lemon and go ahead Brad,
I don't want to put ice cubes in your drink. Oh, you want me to use my hands? Yeah, oh okay
There we go, sorry for the people getting bored watching
I get the one with the blue, that's enough ice for me. Do you want me to put a little flavor in there?
Oh just squeeze it. There half a shot. You gotta give it some in there. That's a strong one.
Wow, all right now take that out, yep, here we go. Oh yeah a little
You do have to be careful
If you got a party you got to be careful with the person operating this ready, go ahead just pour it in there now
We got a stir stick Bob?
Actually, I wasn't thinking ahead. You pour yours. I'm not gonna be responsible for that. Yeah
Yeah looks like lemonade
So we had a real hot weekend this last weekend and my wife and I were drinking these left and right
Oh really? It just it's so refreshing. But yet it's good for I mean there's nothing bad for you
You put no sugar in there. And it's a lot easier drinking this than regular water. Can I taste it?
Isn't it? Or did I put too much lemon in there for you, no, no Bob that's not too much
I'm surprised actually I thought it was gonna be strong
Again the machine I don't want to be responsible for you getting a machine and it not working
so you know beware, I've seen it run between
$44.99 and 69.95. Yeah
with the carbonator, that's like
$95, I think with maybe an extra one
Some people will recommend to you by the way that you go to Target or like Bed Bath & Beyond and buy it there
Because if you buy it online, you can't send it back. Oh
Because of the carbonate I don't know why they can send it to us, but we can't send it in the mail. Oh sure
That way if you have problems you can take it back, so that's the only recommendation
I'd recommend, so that's all good news, Bob.
Cheers, thanks for watching