In an attempt to cut back on the bad effects of soft drinks, I went to diet sodas about 20 years ago. Bad choice.
Growing up, we didn’t keep sodas, carbonated drinks in our house. It was milk, juice or iced tea. Water was not promoted as the drink of choice, maybe because my parents grew up in the depression and valued the fact we could have our choice at dinner. As an adult, like many, I reveled in having a soda...