Peter Lawrie: Breaking soft-drink addiction broke my game [GC]

[nevets88]

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/peter-lawrie-breaking-soft-drink-addiction-broke-my-game/

Quote:

That steady decline, he understands now, coincided with his realization that he owned a Coke addiction.

Coca-Cola, that is.

“I was addicted to it and I tried to stop it,” Lawrie told Newstalk in Ireland during its “Golf Weekly” podcast. “I was drinking liters of the stuff. Even in the hottest countries, like Malaysia, I would have Coke on the golf course, because I was addicted to it.”

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Lawrie told Newstalk that he’s now drinking Coca-Cola once again, but rather than liters of it, he’s limiting his intake to two or three 12-ounce cans per day.

It’s apparently helping his game, too. After missing the cut in eight consecutive starts, he’s now reached the weekend in each of his last three, including a T-16 at last week’s Maybank Malaysian Open – his best finish since a T-10 at the 2013 Irish Open, three weeks before he quit drinking the cola.

[billchao]

Sounds like a PED, to me

[Patch]

There is a lot of truth in soda addiction. I had a pretty steady habit of drinking diet Dr Pepper. I was getting head aches, and just basically not feeling very well. I was drinking several " super big gulps" a day of the stuff. Once I returned home, it would be a several cans of the stuff. After a few medical screenings it was determine my kidneys had slowed down. Once I quit so much diet soda, I started feeling better, no more head aches, and my kidneys started doing a better job.

I even had a doctor tell me to drink a beer instead of a soda when the soda craving hit me. Yes, a beer under the right conditions. .

[14ledo81]

I have a candy addiction. Soda, not so much.

[Shindig]

I remember when I first cut soda out of my diet. It didn't stay out long, but I did limit intake for a while. Then I worked somewhere for a year that stocked the fridges with "help yourself, as much as you'd like" soda. Including my favorites, Coke Zero and Cherry Coke Zero. Now it's a lot more limited. I still keep some in my office (no longer at a place with unlimited free soda), and twice this past week took out a can to have with lunch and didn't open it. After lunch, I put it back. After today's round, it looks like maybe I should have had some during the week. Worked for Lawrie.

[mailman]

A friend of ours drinks coke like it's going out of fashion (before breakfast, for breakfast, morning snack, lunch afternoon snacks, before dinner, with dinner then several more litres before going to sleep....eventually. She constantly complains about headaches or sore this or sore that and goes on about poor health. I've pointed out before her addiction to coke doesn't help but it's like talking to a brick wall. Mailman

[Aguirre]

My guess is that this is confusing correlation with causation.

[Roblar]

A friend of ours drinks coke like it's going out of fashion (before breakfast, for breakfast, morning snack, lunch afternoon snacks, before dinner, with dinner then several more litres before going to sleep....eventually.

She constantly complains about headaches or sore this or sore that and goes on about poor health.

I've pointed out before her addiction to coke doesn't help but it's like talking to a brick wall.

Mailman

Your friend is right - look at the politics and policies about this. It is going out of fashion!

[mailman]

My guess is that this is confusing correlation with causation.

Not at all. There is a ton of reasearch in to the effects a high sugar diet has on the human body and migraines, mood swings, lack of focus etc can all be tied back to the white stuff! Mailman