When I got on my healthy nutrition kick three years ago, I had more than a sweet tooth…I had 32 of them. I loved anything chocolate. Although I've never been a huge soft drink person, I did order a "Biggie" size coke or pepsi whenever I'd frequent a fast food place.

I started to drink only water or unsweetened tea or black coffee with my organic meals. I was amazed at how quickly I becamed totally weaned of the sweet cravings…about 2-4 weeks. Those things no longer look or smell tempting to me at all. There have been times that I'd try a candy bar to see if I'd been missing anything.

I realized what I'd been missing is not a sugar high, but a sugar "low." Within a half hour of eating a candy bar I would become very sleepy and lethargic. That downer would last about 2 hours. I guess I never noticed it before because I was previously always tired throughout the day before my health epiphany.

I hate the effects of sweet stuff now, and will never again  eat it. In fact, I no longer even care for good natural sweet stuff such as organic honey, syrup, or even stevia sweetened stuff. (I keep stevia around for guests who want sweet tea or coffee, and I refuse to keep any sugar or artificial sweeteners in my home). The natural flavors of fruit and vegetable are satisfying by themselves.

Once again folks, HFCS alone is not the only chemically refined 'fructose' to avoid at all costs...other phony and deceptive labeling includes: crystalline fructose (NOT from fruit, nor metabolized to blood glucose like levulose from fruit), agave (hydrolyzed HIGH FRUCTOSE inulin deceptive and criminally mislabeled), chicory (ditto), beet (ditto), inulin (ditto), modified corn starches, corn maltodextrins corn syrup, glucose syrup, organic corn syrup, and corn syrup solids.

All of these are coverted, irresepctive of claimed source, DIRECTLY to body fat, or blood triglycerides, and lead to cardio vascular disease, cardiac arrest, obesity, diabetes , hypoglycemia and cancer.

If you look it up, sugar is considered a drug on the same level as heroine and cocaine. It is just as addictive to the brain. Water is pretty much the only thing our body was designed to drink. Juice is just sugar water, fruit drinks are just a cup of sugar and so forth.

I stopped drinking soda and started drinking fresh water (Culligan) after reading warnings about it on your site. After a few months, I decided to have a soda just for a treat. It immediately filled me with gas, gave me hiccups, cramps, and my teeth started hurting.

Now it's even more clear why I stopped drinking that stuff. It's amazing what we can be accustomed to! Yuck!