Episode Details

Should I quit drinking diet soda? And if so, how??? What gets Carolyn up in the morning, and the power of our gratitude practice, especially for health care workers.

LET'S TALK THE WALK!

• Wellness While Walking Facebook page
• Wellness While Walking on Instagram
• Wellness While Walking on Twitter
• Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information
• wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com

RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links)

DIET SODAS AND ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS

• Do Sweet Drinks Have Anything to Do With Dementia? foodpolitics.com
• Just How Bad is Diet Soda For You? clevelandclinic.org
• 21 Healthy, Low-Sugar Soda Alternatives That Make It Easy to Quit Color, eatthis.com
• Effects of Sweeteners on the Gut Microbiota: A Review of Experimental Studies and Clinical Trials, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• Diet Soda By Itself May Not Cause Weight Gain, Study Says, But Combining With Carbs Can, cnn.com
• Measuring Artificial Sweeteners Toxicity Using a Bioluminescent Bacterial Panel, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• Artificial Sweeteners: Sugar-Free, But at What Cost? health.harvard.edu
• Diet Soda Intake and Risk of Incident Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, diabetesjournals.org
• Coca-Cola Discontinues TaB Diet Soda in the US, beveragedaily.com
• Stickk app
• Habitica app
• Pact app – (not recommended)

LOVE OF LEARNING

• Character Strengths, VIACharacter.org
• Science of Well-Being (Yale) class, coursera.org

GRATITUDE AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS