Is diet Pepsi really OK to have on a diet?

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  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    newmeadow wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Uh no. Especially if it's from a "Nature" journal.

    Would it be okay if it came from a Synthetic Food Additives Today journal from an article authored by Clark Griswold?

    LOL.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    kgeyser wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Kidbonz wrote: »
    There are a few problems with Diet soft drinks. I gave them up for New Years. 3 days and still sober. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/17/349270927/diet-soda-may-alter-our-gut-microbes-and-the-risk-of-diabetes
    Uh no. Especially if it's from a "Nature" journal.

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    You might want to actually look at the article rather than outright dismissing it, it's been referenced by several other non-"Nature" publications, and there seems to be a lot of emerging research in the area. I found a few articles while doing a search, here's one abstract, can't seem to get to the full text: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25831243

    That's quite the assumption.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    I swear Griswold's sketch did more for clean eating than a dozen public service ads.
  • PokeyBug
    PokeyBug Posts: 482 Member
    In the past couple of years, I've gone from drinking Diet Coke all day, every day to drinking it only occasionally. By 'occasionally', I mean about once a week. (My husband and I do Takeout Tuesdays.) I did this, not for my health, but for my budget, lol. The cost of 5 tea bags is so much more affordable than the cost of 5 diet sodas, lol. That being said, I don't think that the copious amounts of Diet Coke messed with my diet much, if at all. If water is getting boring for you, I say mix it up with the occasional diet soda, tea (unsweet or sweet, but be careful if you use sugar to sweeten it), flavored water (like with fruit), coffee - hot or iced, etc., etc.
  • mkakids
    mkakids Posts: 1,913 Member
    No.


    But only because diet Pepsi is gross...switch to Diet Coke.
  • BoaRestrictor
    BoaRestrictor Posts: 194 Member
    I drink Coke Zero but same difference. It's not going to hurt your weight loss. I have been drinking one-two a day for the last two years.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    mkakids wrote: »
    No.


    But only because diet Pepsi is gross...switch to Diet Coke.
    I used to enjoy Diet Pepsi until one day, I drank one of the reformulated cans hot.

    They really taste flat to me for some reason.

  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    edited January 2016
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Kidbonz wrote: »
    There are a few problems with Diet soft drinks. I gave them up for New Years. 3 days and still sober. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/17/349270927/diet-soda-may-alter-our-gut-microbes-and-the-risk-of-diabetes
    Uh no. Especially if it's from a "Nature" journal.

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    Nature is actually one of the most respected scientific journals out there. I would definitely believe their science is good, but people trying to extrapolate a short-term effect seen in a small group of volunteers to make claims about long-term effects on the population as a whole are simply jumping to conclusions.

    Basically, the problem with almost all media reporting on science, they take observations out of context and apply them much more broadly than the journal authors ever would.

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  • lthames0810
    lthames0810 Posts: 722 Member
    I never really liked the taste of diet soft drinks or artfical sweetener in my tea, but I drank them anyway because the alternatives were yet more plain water or more calories. I finally decided not to let calorie restriction make me eat or drink things I don't like. I will have my tea with honey, damn it. If I want a soda, I'll have a full sugar one, but only rarely.

    The result of all this is that I'm now even more intolerant of the taste of artificial sweeteners than I used to be, so even a few drops of Mio in water tastes terrible. I'm thinking I did myself a disservice in the long run because I now have even fewer alternatives to plain water or tea than I used to and now Quest bars taste bad to me as well.

    I don't think diet drinks consumed moderately do any harm. (Don't all the fears about loss of bone density or gut bacteria involve high dosage?) In fact they may have a lot to do with helping you stick to your calorie budget and get proper hydration.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    kbmnurse wrote: »
    No. Soda diet or regular is horrible for your bones.

    Only if you're soaking your bones in a vat of the stuff for a long period of time. But that would suggest far more serious problems than your choice of beverage.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    jofjltncb6 wrote: »
    kbmnurse wrote: »
    No. Soda diet or regular is horrible for your bones.

    Only if you're soaking your bones in a vat of the stuff for a long period of time. But that would suggest far more serious problems than your choice of beverage.

    As usual, context and dosage are completely ignored in the name of fanaticism. When are people going to start talking about how deadly dangerous water is when you chug 10 gallons of it per day?
  • SteveMFP123
    SteveMFP123 Posts: 298 Member
    Thanks for all the replies, looks like it's A OK then. I'll try some of the suggestions and see which brand I prefer.
  • lemonsnowdrop
    lemonsnowdrop Posts: 1,298 Member
    Vanilla Coke Zero is my diet staple. Delicious stuff.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    I love A&W 10 root beer!
  • booksandchocolate12
    booksandchocolate12 Posts: 1,741 Member
    No. Diet Pepsi is NOT OK.

    But only because it's gross.

    Diet Coke, on the other hand, is perfectly fine. :wink:
  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    Kidbonz wrote: »
    There are a few problems with Diet soft drinks. I gave them up for New Years. 3 days and still sober. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/17/349270927/diet-soda-may-alter-our-gut-microbes-and-the-risk-of-diabetes

    There are no problems with drinking diet soft drinks. The above article is full of fearmongering and short of actual science.

    Mostly, it is short on links to the studies to which it refers. The microbiome is a hot area of research, and metabolic disorders are high on the list of things the microbiome influences. This area of research is too new and too broad to have tons of large scale research on point, but what there is is strongly suggestive (at least as to the microbiome/health connection). There are documented cases of diabetes both arising and vanishing after fecal transplants from individuals with/without diabetes into someone without/with diabetes. This article gives a general overview and alludes to the fecal transplant connection. This article seems to be the mouse study that was referenced.

    Is a suggestion that artificial sweeteners may impact the microbiome, and secondarily things like obesity and diabetes, as part of a relatively balanced article that expressly acknowledges that this research is in its infancy really so outrageous that you need to label it "fearmongering"?
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