RE: Water vs soft drinks, tea

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When I eat or drink anything with aspartame in it, I break out in hives extremely bad. Sometimes it is followed by a migraine. Aspartame for me is life threatening. I have had my throat to swell a couple of times. It took me a while to figure out what I was allergic too. I can eat 1 tbsp of light salad dressing and I have hives all over me. Glad to know that I'm not by myself in the migraine department.

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>From: bsewell

>Reply-To: LUPIES >To: "LUPIESegroups"

>Subject: Water vs soft drinks, tea >Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:10:18 -0500 > >When you are trying to keep yourself hydrated, you should not drink any >type of caffeine at all. Whether it be in tea or sodas, caffeine is a >diuretic. It makes you pee more, so you lose more water. > >Also, some people react to the aspartame in diet drinks (I know I do, I >get migraines from anything with aspartame in it). Along with the >migraine comes muscle pain, I don't know if the migraine causes the >muscle pain, or the aspartame does, so I just don't drink or eat >anything "diet" .. period. > >Try adding some orange juice to your water or grape juice to the water >to give it a different flavor. But plain water is the best thing for >you. > >If you don't like water, try drinking it through a straw while it is >very very cold. Or from a water bottle with a sports cap (so you can >just squeeze it into your mouth). > >So how do you know if you have drank the recommended number of ounces a >day? > >Try putting eight to ten 8 ounce bottles of water in the 'fridge. When >they are all empty, you are done. > >I refill my water bottles from the tap or sometimes buy a gallon jug of >water and refill them from that.. >the main thing is .. these are YOUR water bottles! > >Let everyone else in the household use their own water bottles or drink >water from a pitcher in the 'fridge. > >By keeping YOUR bottles separate, you will know how much water you have >drank during the day. > > Check your PC for viruses with the FREE McAfee online computer scan.