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Does anyone drink milk daily? I once tried switching to chocolate milk to get rid of my addiction to Pepsi. It was going great, until about a week later, where I was having BM problems.. constipation. Then I remembered my schooling, and figured out that the milk was causing it. Today, I have accepted my addiction and just drink Pepsi :)

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I used to drink soda and sugary fruit juices for every meal for years, up until about 5 years or so ago. I noticed that I was starting to gain weight, so I got rid of it all, and switched to drinking pretty much all water, with some milk and alcohol as desired. Now, I drink sugary drinks maybe like once every few weeks at most.

It does feel a little weird for the first week or two, but after about a month, I was pretty used to it, and sodas taste kinda over-sugared now.

My diet advice, for what it's worth - if you do nothing else, dump sugary drinks, including soda, fruit juices, energy drinks, etc in favor of water. It's pretty easy as long as you don't try to change everything else at the same time, and every school of thought on nutrition I'm aware of agrees that they're awful. It's also kinda nice to not have to carry everything you drink home from the store.

About a litre or so daily, sometimes more. Then again levels of lactose tolerance in southern parts of Scandinavia here I'm from is amongst the highest in the world.

I didn't really realise lactose intolerance was a thing until I was in mid 20's and moved to the UK.

> I didn't really realise lactose intolerance was a thing until I was in mid 20's and moved to the UK.

Many probably don't realize it until they "acquire" it themselves. Or maybe they just start feeling bloated after drinking a lot of milk or eating ice cream, and don't really consider that it might be a mild intolerance.

It's not so much that in my case at least. In Norway, the general assumption used to be very much that you will not be lactose intolerant, and will not "acquire" it, because lactose intolerance of any degree is extremely rare in the "native" population.

As far as I know, about 4% or so of the population in Scandinavia is lactose intolerant now, after increased immigration from parts of the world with more widespread lactose intolerance have increased the percentage substantially.

It was simply not on our radar until perhaps the mid 90's.

I'm Norwegian.

Similar. Until my early 20s I thought lactose intolerance was an unfortunate allergy of some kind. My mind was blown when I discovered the majority of humans on Earth are intolerant to some degree. It often makes me wonder what other simple realities to which I am completely ignorant.

colder climate -> bigger body is beneficial -> need bigger stronger bones -> milk as an efficient and stable source of calcium. I'm from Russia and also wasn't aware until few years ago that lactose intolerance is a norm on planet Earth, not an exception.

Coca Cola FTW!!!

As for milk... could always tolerate it cold, but not heated (mom microwaves it). Looks like more than half the human population is lactose intolerant:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Milk commercials are so over the top, in bay area radio commercials depict it for people growing up into super heroes (I kid you not).

Every day with cereal for months now. I'm doing great, no problems whatsoever.

You should switch from sugary drinks to water and fruit. It takes about 3 weeks to adjust. ( and avoid chocolate milk )

What do you mean by adjust? Is there some withdrawal period from a product like Pepsi? Or adjust to the dissatisfying taste of water compared to sugary drinks?

Caffeine withdrawl can give you headaches. They can be pretty bad, but (I think?) should only be for a few days.

Caffeine withdrawal can give you much more than headaches, and withdrawal can last for at least a week, though generally at higher dosages.

Until I realised what was going on, when I was taking breaks from using 360mg very other day - so equivalent to 5-6 cups of coffee - to boost my weight lifting in periods, I had week long bouts of diarrhoea, intense headaches, shakes setting in in the evening (so severe I had to time my painkillers, or I'd have problems swallowing them because I had difficulty holding my hands steady enough to drink a glass of water), fever, and night sweats.

Caffeine can be a nasty drug to go cold turkey from if your intake has been high. Best bet is to step down gradually (not a long period - over a week or two), coupled with pre-emptively taking paracetamol/acetaminophen in the early evening.

Often, someone who gets a lot of caffeine and starts experiencing symptoms like above may be experiencing withdrawal without being aware.

Sugar is the best and fastest source of energy found in the nature. We are programmed to like it and remember when we ingest it, and that behavior is rewarded by feeling good.

A lack of that feeling will make you feel less good. Experts say it takes up to a month for that imbalance to normalize.

Great talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLnlhLNa28&feature=youtu.be...

If so, he should keep in mind that "sugary drinks" include fruit juices.

The calorie contents of Pepsi is not that far removed from many fruit juice products. Some, like lemonades, can often be higher in sugars than Pepsi.

You have to be careful even with fruits with high sugar amount. But it is harder since the digestion is slower and you get full faster.

It's much harder to get the same amount of sugar from actual fruit, as fruit juice is pretty much extracting the sugar and water from the fruit. That is, a glass of orange juice takes more than one orange. The part of the fruit that is thrown out when juicing is also good for you: fiber.

I use to drink a fair amount of juice a few years ago. I am almost 100% off sugary drink now. The way I got off of it was drinking about twice as much water as juice but for some reason it was only effective when it was ice cold to stop the early cravings. I got an insulated water bottle that was around 2 and a half liter's and it worked out well.

I need to do find some similar method to stop eating bread now :)

I used to drink many cups a day (too lazy to eat) for years. I've been avoiding it the past couple months, however, to clear up some inflammation issues (arthritis, psoriasis, etc.). They did go away, but I dropped a lot of other things from my diet too (grain/rice, seeds, nuts, nightshade family vegetables, dairy) so no clue what was actually the problem.

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