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From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: Caffeine and hacking (was Re: Soldering)
I gave up drinking cola with caffeine and now mostly
drink 7-up with
artificial sweeteners (you end up getting a sweet tooth late in the day).
I used to guzzle mountain dew in the morning when I worked and I found if
I
didn't my mind would be a little cloudy until I
did so I gave it up.
Yes, you do lose a bunch of weight when switching to diet pop, but you
gain
it back slowly when you get a craving for sweets (you
body doesn'y like to
be fooled by fake sweetener).
You can say that again (the bit in brackets in the last sentence). If I
drink Diet Cola it makes me sick, as in regurgitating what I ate recently.
So I stay well away from diet drinks... but I have a few other allergies too
(hayfever, asthma, eczema and certain plastics cause irration to my skin
after contact for 5-10 minutes). I suppose I should count myself lucky that
I'm not allergic to sunlight.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk