Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast. I'm John Hammond, and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi, everyone. And in this episode, we are going to explore some of the great alternative beverages out

there that might actually be what you need to help kick your soda habit. Megan, are you a soda junkie

soda habit? Not so much. No, I'm actually proud to say that I've never been a soda person. We didn't grow up with soda. And you know, I had it a little bit here and there in college, usually with a cocktail, like a Jack and Coke or whatever, but I've never been like a soda girl. What about you? So it was my, my blood type when I was 13 okay yeah okay

no doubt I was a soda junkie it was constantly in our house my father drank it

all day long so it was just it was just there all the time and and I feel like you

grow up and you're either like Pepsi or Coke yeah one one camp it's it for

life I did make a coke switch for a little while there you don't waver from that. It's it for life.

I did make a Coke switch for a little while there.

I don't know what triggered it, but maybe just looking for being my rebellious teens, maybe.

But, you know, it's funny.

And it was never diet soda.

It was full test all the way.

And, you know, it definitely kept my childhood dentist pretty busy and probably well-employed and probably made his retirement much easier.

And I can't pinpoint what it was like you.

For some, for some reason, soda just dropped out of my diet completely.

And it wasn't like, you know, look, and rightfully so, a lot of people today are looking at soda a lot more closely with more concern.

Yeah, and they should be because we'll get into that a little bit.

But, and that's why I thought this was a good topic for us today because, you know, one of those things with soda is like,

it's a hard, it's a hard thing to kick. Yeah. Because you grew up with it. And there's all these things that it's, whether it's just the fizziness, the bubbliness, the sugar, the caffeine, whatever it is, there are all these things that kind of make it a hard thing to kick. So, you know, that's the fun thing about this episode. What's funny is, is that my children

have a distinctly different relationship with soda than I did. They never drink soda.

And, and- Does they ever want one, though? No, see, here's the thing. It's not even that they

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