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My son, Edgar really enjoy his days at school. He applies at home all what he learns there (you should see him doing math, he’s a master. And don’t even mention his reading skills!). One of his obsessions is about healthy habits. He can easily stop eating cake or candy when he knows he had a good piece already, and he almost never gets soft drinks, and when he does he just drinks half a cup and then he switches back to water.
I believe that teaching him about the dangers of drugs, tobacco and alcohol at an early age will help him better to avoid them when he becomes a teenager, and I always show certain proud when I tell him that I don’t consume any of them.
“But why do you drink so many sodas?” he always says. And I always tended to explain that “soda is not that bad, and is the drink that I enjoy the must”. He’s never that convinced with this explanation, and I lately realized it: how can I be a good example to him if I can avoid a bad habit like that?
So, I decided to take action and moved away from sodas. For the last 3 months I’ve been drinking mostly water. I still add some of that “Mio" sweetener, but I can tell you that my health has improved a lot!
I used to have headaches almost every day, and cramps at least a couple of times per week. No more headaches now, and almost no cramps at all, even when now I exercise way more than before. My theory is that caffeine, a big ingredient in the sodas that used to drink, was causing me dehydration (no scientific proof of that for this claim, except for my own experiment).
Of course, I can drink a soda from time to time, but I almost never crave for one.
The moral is clear: let’s put our pride aside, and let’s our children teach you some lessons for a change.