{"id":1819,"date":"2014-01-05T23:04:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2014-01-05T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:04:43","slug":"more-good-news-on-the-healthy-eating-front-people-ditching-diet-sodas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/more-good-news-on-the-healthy-eating-front-people-ditching-diet-sodas\/","title":{"rendered":"More Good News on the Healthy Eating Front:  People Ditching Diet Sodas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diet-cola.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1820\" alt=\"Diet Cola\" src=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diet-cola.jpg?w=285\" width=\"286\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><a title=\"In the News:  Positive Signs of Progress on the Healthy Eating\u00a0Front\" href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/10\/in-the-news-positive-signs-of-progress-on-the-healthy-eating-front\/\">A previous post<\/a> shared the good news that Americans are getting smarter and taking control of their health by reducing soda consumption.\u00a0 It was always assumed that diet sodas were off the hook, but some experts aren&#8217;t so sure those cans of artificial ingredients don&#8217;t harbor health risks of their own.\u00a0 (<a title=\"Weight Hacker Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weighthacker.com\/2012\/10\/21\/how-diet-soda-might-be-making-you-fat-and-rotting-your-teeth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s one report<\/a>)\u00a0 At the very least, they aren&#8217;t doing anything positive for our health.\u00a0 So it was with interest that I read a recent <em>Wall Street<\/em> article, &#8220;Diet Soda&#8217;s Glass Looks Half Empty.&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the story of Joanna Stepka, &#8220;the soda industry&#8217;s new nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 33-year-old Rhode Island resident began drinking Diet Coke in kindergarten, graduating to three cans a day by adulthood.\u00a0 She quit in August after her gym trainer told her artificial sweeteners are unhealthy and make people fat even if they don&#8217;t have calories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to join the trend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previous post shared the good news that Americans are getting smarter and taking control of their health by reducing soda consumption.\u00a0 It was always assumed that diet sodas were off the hook, but some experts aren&#8217;t so sure those cans of artificial ingredients don&#8217;t harbor health risks of their own.\u00a0 (Here&#8217;s one report)\u00a0 At &#8230; <a title=\"More Good News on the Healthy Eating Front:  People Ditching Diet Sodas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/more-good-news-on-the-healthy-eating-front-people-ditching-diet-sodas\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}