Is Diet Coke actually Satan?
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LOL... I couldn't care less if people drink Diet Coke, Regular Coke, or toilet bowl water.0
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You can't have a proper scienticism cult until you start trying to apply scientific methods to morality and just reinvent the worst crap in Utilitarianism.0
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Diet coke gives me a massive headache. I don't know why, I wanted to like it. When I was young, Coke was a favorite. First time I had a cigarette it made me sick, shoulda listened to that. I quit smoking, but it was years later. If a person never got a headache from it, then they didn't....but if you did at first... Your body might have been telling you something. I wonder how many diet coke drinkers can actually give it up. My observation is it sure appears to be addictive.0
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It's all moderation. Soda all day, every day is bad. They used to say agave syrup and sweeteners were better for you than sugar and now there's a study that it's bad for you too.
Just don't down a 2 liter every day and you'll be fine. Life is killing you anyway!0 -
ScreeField wrote: »MamaBirdBoss wrote: »But you're supposed to be stabbing someone else in secret.
No placebo effect there!
You could test it by making a doll of someone else and stabbing them in secret. You'd know it worked because the very next bad thing that happened to them was certainly caused by your actions
Ah, nice.
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Swiftlet66 wrote: »Parents: I am just wondering but would you allow your little boy or girl to drink diet soda every day?
Parents who would allow: I'd like to suggest you do a long term study on the effects (if any) for drinking diet soda in children. For the sake of proving your point of course, that diet soda is harmless.
Caffeine free would be fine. But mine has caffeine. So they usually have about 1/8 of a can to 1/2 of a can a day.0 -
Diet coke and Pepsi max are not evil or satan and thus far have not made me want to eat more or crave sweets. Alcohol however.... Well that is another issue entirely.0
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Still waiting to see more studies that aren't funded by beverage companies...0
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
FTFY.
Artificial sweeteners may increase weight gain or slowc weight loss in some individuals because poorer choices are made elsewhere in their diets, or because they become our remain addicted to sweetened foods and consume more such foods with caloric impact. Affect all? No, but for sure some.
As for physical impacts it's early days but sufficient research exists to warrant caution.
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/health/artificial-sweeteners-linked-to-obesity-epidemic-scientists-say-1.2769196
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24862170
Funding Agencies: The study was fully funded by The American Beverage Association.
Disclosure: JCP, JOH received consulting fees from The Coca-Cola Company outside of the submitted work. The remaining co-authors declared no conflict of interest.
This doesn't mean the study is bad or invalid. It just means to look a bit harder at the science-y bits and conclusions to see if there's bias there. Often, there isn't; sometimes, there is.
Major conflict of interest. One strike.
All the participants had to be drinkers of NNS beverages to begin with. That's odd. Also, the graph at the end showing 5% is misleading, arbitrary and indicates bias when examined critically. It could have just as easily been a graph showing "percent of people who lost 1% or gained 2.4%, etc..."; manipulate the data subtly to make it look the way your client wants it to look. Need to see better studies that show the long term effects and are not funded by beverage companies.
Man, if only there was a link like I gave before to examine, which had a half dozen or more studies about these things.
And if only it were possible to recognize and attempt to combat our own biases instead of being a warrior of righteousness.
I personally don't see an issue with this study especially when taken in conjunction with the others.
Nice try assuming my biases. I actually drink diet sodas on occasion and have an open food diary to prove it. I am biased against bad science, however.0 -
Hi, I am Dani, and I am a Pepsi-holic. I have given up Diet Pepsi and Pepsi many, many times over the years. I miss it the first week and then I am okay...until I think, I can have just one, once in a while. Just like an addiction I am hooked again! I have not had a Pepsi since March 6, 2015.RobertDupuy wrote: »Diet coke gives me a massive headache. I don't know why, I wanted to like it. When I was young, Coke was a favorite. First time I had a cigarette it made me sick, shoulda listened to that. I quit smoking, but it was years later. If a person never got a headache from it, then they didn't....but if you did at first... Your body might have been telling you something. I wonder how many diet coke drinkers can actually give it up. My observation is it sure appears to be addictive.
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inb4 addiction argument0
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christinev297 wrote: »
Yet you keep posting.0
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