Non Aspartane sodas

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Do people with bad livers work at health food stores? Food for thought.

(Health Food?)

Bob Drury

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Diet Rite Cola is sweetened with Splenda, no aspartane! Splenda is

a low cal sweetener actually made from sugar. Great for any low

carb or South Beach type diets. Tastes like real sugar to me!

Great job moderaters, great job Rick and the rest of you as well.

The best defense is often a good laugh!

Kim

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Bob,

LOL! Two points.....

1. I haven't been called " kid " for more years than I care to admit so Thank You

sincerely! and

2. I'm not even sure if they're still available. Here in Australia I *think*

we can still purchase them at the supermarket but they're kept under lock and

key as a small portion of children learned how to make them explode and caused

themselves injury. Hence they were taken from the shelves for safety sake. You

could try your local hardware store as well as your local supermarket. They may

still be available. Just make sure you get the soda 'bombs' (AKA cartridges)

and not the cream whip 'bombs'. Different gas used. I learned the hard way -

use a soda bomb to try and whip cream - BLEAH! Revolting!

One last thing - if you enter " Soda Syphon " into the Google search engine

there's a wealth of info there.

anne

Re: Non Aspartane sodas

Say, kid, where could I get my hands on one of those " Gas bomb thingies " ?

Bob Drury

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Bob,

One does not have to revert to communism in order to maintain a sustainable

ecosystem. Sure, large corporations provide jobs, but how many small buisnesses

were lost in the process? Its about diversity and the decentralisation of

wealth. The economy may be a great thing in the present, but it certainly will

not help us out of the severe environmental degradation and depletion of

resources that are happening now and will only get worse in the

future.....especially as population increases and people seek to live with more

" stuff " in their lives, especially the fashionable and disposable. Recycling is

not the answer either. The answer lies within buying less, and disposing of

less. Do we really need all this 'stuff' to make us happy?

ineamer@... wrote:

Considering that big corporations keep a great many people employed and have

contributed to making our economy the most successful in the history of the

world, I'm not so sure that

Keeping them in business is necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, the last time a

good many of them went out of business is known as The Great Depression ...

not a fun time for anyone. The alternatives offered to capitalism, i.e.,

socialism and communism, have failed abysmally as well. I am of the opinion that

once

recycling becomes profitable, any environmental challenges will be overcome.

I am, however, quite concerned about the caffeine in tea as well as the

chemicals involved in any decaffeination process of same, so I will continue to

research and I do appreciate the feedback.

Bob Drury

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Bob,

One does not have to revert to communism in order to maintain a sustainable

ecosystem. Sure, large corporations provide jobs, but how many small buisnesses

were lost in the process? Its about diversity and the decentralisation of

wealth. The economy may be a great thing in the present, but it certainly will

not help us out of the severe environmental degradation and depletion of

resources that are happening now and will only get worse in the

future.....especially as population increases and people seek to live with more

" stuff " in their lives, especially the fashionable and disposable. Recycling is

not the answer either. The answer lies within buying less, and disposing of

less. Do we really need all this 'stuff' to make us happy?

ineamer@... wrote:

Considering that big corporations keep a great many people employed and have

contributed to making our economy the most successful in the history of the

world, I'm not so sure that

Keeping them in business is necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, the last time a

good many of them went out of business is known as The Great Depression ...

not a fun time for anyone. The alternatives offered to capitalism, i.e.,

socialism and communism, have failed abysmally as well. I am of the opinion that

once

recycling becomes profitable, any environmental challenges will be overcome.

I am, however, quite concerned about the caffeine in tea as well as the

chemicals involved in any decaffeination process of same, so I will continue to

research and I do appreciate the feedback.

Bob Drury

[Guest guest]

Try your local fertilizer supplier!

ineamer@... wrote:Say, kid, where could I get my hands on one of those " Gas

bomb thingies " ?

Bob Drury

[Guest guest]

I am quite sure that there is a body of economic knowledge and demographic

data to demonstrate that more small businesses are created by large businesses

than are harmed. They often, however, are not the same. so there are some

losers and some winners in any economic system. Capitalism has historically

produced many more winners than losers, which is why it thrives and is the

dominant

world economic system.

I do agree that we would all be healthier, happier, more productive and less

destructive if we shifted focus from self to God and, by his command, to

others. I pray that I do so as an individual and that society does so as a

whole.

I also believe that having a disease such as Hep C (And all that comes along

with it) can place one in a more enlightened, appreciative and deliciously

humble state. Often God allows sickness of the body in order to increase the

health of the Spirit.

Bob Drury

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anne,

Well, given that our souls are immortal, we are all " Kids " ... No?

Bob Drury

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At 11:31 AM 5/8/2004 +1000, you wrote:

>If you must have flavoured water, why don't you try drinking some herbal

>teas instead. Green tea tastes good, and is pretty good for you too!

Yes!! And (read the labels carefully first, to make sure there are no

spices that are harmful to the liver like nutmeg) there are some great

Celestial Seasonings teas in the supermarket--health food stores have them

too, but you can get them at Walmart or wherever--that are just delicious

hot OR iced. I love Red Zinger, but there are also Lemon Zinger and some

other ones that are great. But some do have nutmeg in them, so be sure to

read what's in them. Adding a little cranberry juice (found on the shelf

at any supermarket) or grape or apple juice (frozen food section at the

supermarket) also adds a lot of flavor. Watch the sales: sometimes our

local non-chain supermarket will put frozen juices on sale, so when they do

I stock up. Frozen, they keep for a long time.

I don't have to worry about chlorine or any of those chemicals. We're out

in the sticks, and have a good well--we get it tested every once in awhile

just to make sure it's still good. It tastes just wonderful, although

there are a lot of minerals in it.

I'm with you on coke. Sure, I love the flavor, but I'd rather not put it

in my body. By the way, when you were in high school chemistry class, did

they do the same experiment that we did in ours (lo those many years

ago)? In ours, they took a bottle of coke and put a nail in it and left it

over night. The next morning, the nail had mostly dissolved; the following

morning, it was completely dissolved. What does that mean for our bodies,

I wonder?

Jeanne

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