What are the health benefits of stopping drinking cola?

It depends on the cola and what was in it.

At a minimum, you are reducing your caffeine consumption, if the cola had caffeine in the first place. Maybe that’s why you are drowsy – you’re not chemically keeping yourself awake.

You are also taking in less sugar (or sugar substitute, or corn syrup, or whatever they use as sweeteners in Canada).

But changes like this can take months or even years to show up. It’s incremental.

The health benefit is in reduction in insulin response to the sugar or artificial sweetener in the cola. It is a long term benefit, not something to notice immediately.

What have you replaced the cola with? If you have reduced your calorie consumption, you will gradually lose weight. If you have remained calorie neutral, the benefits won’t be as visible.

@zenvelo 1% Milk and water.

Milk has a lot of sugar in it. That is why you are not seeing a benefit.

When my dog died, I started gaining weight because walking her had been my main form of regular exercise. I quit drinking soda and started drinking unsweetened ice tea instead. I’m pretty sure it helped me stop gaining weight.

@zenvelo Ok Thanks I will cut back the milk and drink more tap water.

@RedDeerGuy1 I wouldn’t worry about the sugars in 1% milk, it only has 13 grams per 8 ounces. Pepsi has 40. 1% milk has nutritional value.

Reducing sugar intake – if you were drinking regular cola – will have benefits, but they may not be immediately apparent. If you could find some way to add more fresh fruit vegetables to your daily diet, that would help, too. But really, you are in charge of your diet. You get to decide.

I can tell you that I feel a great deal better since I eliminated nearly all processed food from my diet. I hardly eat anything that doesn’t start from scratch. I eat a lot of fruit: apples and bananas. (I buy other fruit that is on sale at the grocer’s.) I do eat a lot of cheese, but I buy organic cheeses. I do not buy the stuff labeled processed cheese food. I eat very healthy bread with real butter, not margarine. I drink unsweetened tea, both hot and iced. I do enjoy a half a glass of 2% milk with breakfast and before bed. My only indulgence is peanut butter. I love regular peanut butter. I do not like the organic kind that does not have added sugar. Most of my processed sugar comes from peanut butter. I also eat a lot of nuts.

Good luck to you.

I think I started gaining weight when I quit soda. I started eating more desserts and other garbage that not only had sugar, but fat too. When I quit Coke I quit caffeine, and so I think I started craving chocolate at that point, which I never had before. I think my body figured out where little bits of caffeine could be found.

My teeth don’t get yellow like they used. Soda really can stain your teeth. Soda also can block the absorption of some minerals if you drink too much of it.

Quitting caffeine I believe made me less irritable in the morning, I don’t have to worry about feeding the addiction to avoid feeling like shit, and I think it helps me avoid shingles eruptions.

My mom had a big ass brain tumor (size of a lemon) that wasn’t diagnosed for a decade. This caused massive migraines and the easiest thing for her to help with the migraines was a ton of caffeine. Pepsi was her weapon of choice. 4 liters a day. I know because she would call begging me to go to the store to get her bottles of Pepsi everyday.

w00t, tumor diagnosed, tumor removed. Oh shit, type II diabetes. Some seriously fucked up shit. Like I wouldn’t even wish type 2 on Trump.

The FDA recommends that we consume less than 50 grams of sugar (closer to 25 grams, actually) a day.

A 12 oz can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar in it.

Diabetes is serious shit. Being overweight and consuming tons of soda puts someone at high risk.

Stronger and Good bones.