When I talk to clients, I often ask if they can decipher
what foods tend make the pain worse or better, and if they
crave certain foods in their diet. One of the foods I am
always listening for are diet soft drinks with aspartame
(Nutrasweet). From personal experience, I have been relieved
of constant headaches when I was convinced to stop drinking
Diet Pepsi. I was a regular user and once I stopped drinking
it, the nagging headaches that I had for a long time totally
cleared up. So if you are drinking diet soft drinks, STOP
NOW, and see what difference it makes. I have had quite
a number of clients feel much better just a couple weeks
after abstaining from soft drinks.
Recently, we have been introduced to the new fake sugar
called Splenda. Advertising for Splenda says that is made
from sugar, so it tastes like sugar. But this doesn't tell
the whole story. Splenda is made by taking out 3 of the
6 molecules that make up sugar, and adding chlorine molecules.
If you are avoiding chlorinated water because of chlorine
toxicity, then you should be avoiding Splenda. You are getting
chlorocarbons from Splenda that can cause immune system
problems, such as thymus gland shrinkage, and other genetic
and reproductive damage.
The FDA approved Splenda in 1988 as a sucralose sweetener
that tastes just like sugar. But the sugar flavor is artificial,
since Splenda is about 600 times sweeter than natural sugar,
so the sugar flavor is forced out of the partial sugar molecule.
And our body cannot use the sugar in Splenda as fuel for
our brains. It does not turn into the glucose we need for
brain function and energy production. Early studies show
many of the same side effects, such as headaches and chronic
pain, as found with aspartame.
Soft drinks have surpassed water as the number one choice
of beverage in the United States. Aspartame is not the only
problem. When you have fibromyalgia or any other autoimmune
disease, you need good minerals in your diet to distress
the immune system, and the phosphoric acid in the dark soft
drinks will rob your body of calcium. The sugar version
is not better for you either, since sugar stresses your
adrenals, especially when it comes in concentrated doses,
like it does in any sugar-laden soft drink.
Also all soft drinks are very acidic, with an average reading
of 2 to 3 pH. Acid urine and saliva pH readings are related
to immune system stress, and joint and muscle stress. So
if you want to have your urine and saliva pH levels stay
in balance (in the 6.4 pH range or higher) avoiding soft
drinks is very important. Coffee is another acid drink,
along with beer. Green tea is the only relatively popular
alkalizing drink. Or you can add lemon or lime to your water
(without sugar) for flavoring.
Other substances also can cause chronic pain. Fillers,
preservatives, food additives and coloring agents in supplements
can build up as toxins in the tissues. This often makes
it harder to lose weight, and can create pain when these
toxins are stored in your tissues disrupting your nervous
system pain response. This is why it is important to use
high quality nutritional supplements without a lot of fillers.
Too many over the counter vitamins and minerals seem to
have more fillers than nutrients on the label, and these
are the ones to avoid.
When choosing foods for your daily diet, or supplements
that support your daily diet, look for foods and supplements
that do not have fake sugars, preservatives like propylene
glycol, and any food colorings. By finding out what chemicals,
processed foods, or supplements are causing your pain; you
will also be able to see a remarkable difference in just
a short period of time.
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