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Ever since welcoming his daughter last year, Post Malone is making his health a priority and it shows.
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The rapper has lost 55 pounds and he addressed concerned fans in April.
Instead, he’s making healthier choices and quitting bad habits.
“Soda is so bad.
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It’s so good, but so bad,” said Post.
I’m gonna have myself a Coke on ice."
Eat This, Not That!
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“I wouldn’t even call it a food.
In my opinion, knowing what it does to the body, any soda is too much soda.
If there is one thing I believe is harmful even in moderation, it is soda.
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Stephenson explains why it’s not easy to let go of soda.
“Because they are sweeter than real whole foods like fruit, they are highly palatable.
Sugar is a slippery slope.
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Diet soda is also, counter-intuitively, related to obesity.
Dr. Stephenson explains why.
Fruit also comes naturally ‘packaged’ with vitamins and other nutrients.
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No natural whole food is as sweet as soda (although fruit juice and dried fruit come close).
Here are some tips on how to start reducing soda from your diet.
“My advice for quitting any habit is the Rule of Halves.
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Stay at two until that begins to feel like your new normal.
Then maybe you go for three or four days, and then down to once a week.
Keep this up, and before long, you’ll discover you don’t need that soda anymore.
(That goes for diet soda, too.)”
