the chemicals we drink.
i drank 12 oz of mountain dew this morning & now i have that distinct sick feeling i sometimes get. i've gotten it after drinking fruitopia & fruitworks sodas too. i feel a little like hurling but mostly it feels like i have some muscle or nerve disease & all i want is for someone to step on or pound my back/shoulders. I used to get this feeling every once in a while and never made the connection to what I had drank til more recently. Anyway, now my mission is to figure out exactly which of the chemicals I'm drinking is affecting me.

MOUNTAIN DEW is: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and or sugar, concentrated orange juice and other natural flavors, citric acid, sodium benzoate, caffeine, sodium citrate, gum arabic, erythorbic acid, calcium disodium EDTA, brominated vegetable oil and yellow 5.

FRUITWORKS (Peach Papaya) is: Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Filtered Pear Juice From Concentrate, Citric Acid, Phosphoric Acid, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Sodium Polyphosphates, Natural Flavors, Potassium Benzoate (Preserves Freshness), Gum Arabic, Potassium Citrate, Potassium Sorbate, (Preserves Freshness) Xanthan Gum, Ester Gum, Calcium Disodium EDTA (To Protect Flavor), B Vitamins: Niacin, Pantothenic Acid & B6; & Yellow, Red 40.

Possible culprits: high fructose corn syrup, one of the "natural flavors", benzoate (a good possibility), citrate, calcium disodium EDTA (sounds pretty gross, maybe this is it), the Yellow.
yuck.

by the way, don't you just love that Dew has vegetable oil in it? once you know this, you can't help but notice how smooth it goes down... <:I

On NPR they were talking about this classic silent film. Apparently it's been restored to original quality and is playing at the Charles tomorrow night (one night only in balto. area). Man, if I had time I would have wanted to check it out... a movie from the mid 20s!