Diet Coke vs Water??-- 0 cals vs 0 cals
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Ah, no...EatKleanGetLean wrote: »Aspartame + Caffeine < Water
Caffeine is fine when not being drank in excess but osteoporosis and some other conditions can happen from demineralization of the bones as well as making the body acidic. Then just do a little research on aspartame and the long term side effects as well as the damage it can cause on the gut bacteria. Gut contains 70-80% of your immune system, sends neurotransmitter responses to your brain, as well as many other functions. Water = King! 96oz+ a day! Minimum of 64oz
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^^^This.Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »EatKleanGetLean wrote: »Aspartame + Caffeine < Water
Caffeine is fine when not being drank in excess but osteoporosis and some other conditions can happen from demineralization of the bones as well as making the body acidic. Then just do a little research on aspartame and the long term side effects as well as the damage it can cause on the gut bacteria. Gut contains 70-80% of your immune system, sends neurotransmitter responses to your brain, as well as many other functions. Water = King! 96oz+ a day! Minimum of 64oz
No.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary/p1
And nothing that you eat or drink will "make the body acidic." If food/drink could change our bodies' pH, most of us would be dead.
It amazes me how people think they have that much control over certain systems in the body...0 -
Broscience is strong with this one.EatKleanGetLean wrote: »Aspartame + Caffeine < Water
Caffeine is fine when not being drank in excess but osteoporosis and some other conditions can happen from demineralization of the bones as well as making the body acidic. Then just do a little research on aspartame and the long term side effects as well as the damage it can cause on the gut bacteria. Gut contains 70-80% of your immune system, sends neurotransmitter responses to your brain, as well as many other functions. Water = King! 96oz+ a day! Minimum of 64oz
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tiffanylacourse wrote: »PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE
Ingredients
Carbonated Water, Caramel Color, Aspartame, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Caffeine.
I'll pass on all that and just take my water, thanks. lol
Oh my gosh.
Phenylketonuria is a rare disorder and those people cannot consume the AMINO ACID phenylalanine in any context. Phenylalanine is an amino acid found in proteins...0 -
tiffanylacourse wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »tiffanylacourse wrote: »PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE
Ingredients
Carbonated Water, Caramel Color, Aspartame, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Caffeine.
I'll pass on all that and just take my water, thanks. lol
Oh my gosh.
Phenylketonuria is a rare disorder and those people cannot consume the AMINO ACID phenylalanine in any context. Phenylalanine is an amino acid found in proteins...
That was copied and pasted from the Coke website. LMAO
So that makes it not true?0 -
Lol, phenylalanine is also in: dairy, eggs, liver, beef, chicken, soybeans, spinach, leafy greens and tofu.tiffanylacourse wrote: »PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE
Ingredients
Carbonated Water, Caramel Color, Aspartame, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Caffeine.
I'll pass on all that and just take my water, thanks. lol
Surely you're passing on those too?
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tiffanylacourse wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »tiffanylacourse wrote: »PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE
Ingredients
Carbonated Water, Caramel Color, Aspartame, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Caffeine.
I'll pass on all that and just take my water, thanks. lol
Oh my gosh.
Phenylketonuria is a rare disorder and those people cannot consume the AMINO ACID phenylalanine in any context. Phenylalanine is an amino acid found in proteins...
That was copied and pasted from the Coke website. Pretty sure it is a warning for PHENYLKETONURICS (people who have phenylketonuria), to warn them that it contains PHENYLALANINE.
LMAO
So I guess I don't understand what's the point of that original post?
I mean, i passed two semesters of chemistry in college and I see absolutely nothing alarming in your list of ingredients there.0 -
Many of the posters here are well versed in the chemical makeup of their soda, as well as that of their water, tea, food, air, etc. If you want to make a compelling argument beyond "chemicals!" it might be helpful to name those which are dangerous and give some kind of idea what the dangers are and in what dosage. Peer reviewed studies would be great, but anything is probably better than "chemicals!"
Keep in mind that several have already been discussed in this thread, so avoiding those or making a substantive contribution to the existing discussion on them would be great.0 -
Caramel color or caramel coloring is a water-soluble food coloring. It is made by heat treatment of carbohydrates, in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization.
So what's the problem?0 -
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I love this board.0
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tiffanylacourse wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »tiffanylacourse wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »tiffanylacourse wrote: »PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE
Ingredients
Carbonated Water, Caramel Color, Aspartame, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium Benzoate (To Protect Taste), Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Caffeine.
I'll pass on all that and just take my water, thanks. lol
Oh my gosh.
Phenylketonuria is a rare disorder and those people cannot consume the AMINO ACID phenylalanine in any context. Phenylalanine is an amino acid found in proteins...
That was copied and pasted from the Coke website. Pretty sure it is a warning for PHENYLKETONURICS (people who have phenylketonuria), to warn them that it contains PHENYLALANINE.
LMAO
So I guess I don't understand what's the point of that original post?
I mean, i passed two semesters of chemistry in college and I see absolutely nothing alarming in your list of ingredients there.
None of those things are in water.
Admit you have nothing and are wrong with your fear mongering.
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So what if none of those things are in water? If I had a glass of 12 Oz of water and a small container of those ingredients, and ingested them at the same time but separately, would that water be "ok"? But when they're mixed together it's evil?
I'm really confused by some people's logic in this thread.0 -
The same way a cheeseburger is evil but ground beef, a slice of cheese, and bread laid out separately are healthy.
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tiffanylacourse wrote: »LMAO
Weird reaction, in that everything she said is correct.
Laughing burns calories, though, so good for you, although I wouldn't count on it burning enough to make much of a difference in the size of your behind.0 -
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It's like how coffee somehow doesn't count as hydration (for the record, no it doesn't cause dehydration). Instead, I should give up coffee (which also has, gasp!, caffeine) and drink water while eating chocolate-covered espresso beans.
Which isn't the worst idea, granted.0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »It's like how coffee somehow doesn't count as hydration (for the record, no it doesn't cause dehydration). Instead, I should give up coffee (which also has, gasp!, caffeine) and drink water while eating chocolate-covered espresso beans.
Which isn't the worst idea, granted.
But coffee is ok as long as you put 1 or 2 tbsp of coconut oil in it... then it becomes fat burning because, coconut oil...0 -
Lol, you'd be LUCKY to find everything you eat free of artificial color and chemicals.................especially since EVERYTHING we consume is chemically bonded at the molecular level.
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If you think the ingredients in diet soda are bad, just look at this list of nasty unpronounceable chemicals. Oh, the horror!!one!1!!!:
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
You see, before the clean, wholesome ingredients are put together and made into an evil burger, they magically warp through a wormhole to an anti-universe (I believe these are located in the kitchen microwaves *shiver*) where their molecules are rearranged into an unclean thing full of cancer-causing chemicals, then they pass through hell where the devil himself spits on them before whooshing everything back. Same with pizza. It's true.0 -
Caramel color or caramel coloring is a water-soluble food coloring. It is made by heat treatment of carbohydrates, in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization.
So what's the problem?
So what's the problem? They said they underlined, yet it seems they actually bolded.
Other than that, not a f'ing thing.0 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
The problem is that combining them "confuses" your body, and when your body is confused it just stores everything as fat for safety's sake. Your body only understands whole foods, duh.
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Oh, d@mn. Those mixed (aka combined) veggies I had for lunch are gonna make me fat.
Thanks, Obama.0 -
The bolded was to show what ingredients are shared with regular coke...
Caramel color or caramel coloring is a water-soluble food coloring. It is made by heat treatment of carbohydrates, in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization.
So what's the problem?
So what's the problem? They said they underlined, yet it seems they actually bolded.
Other than that, not a f'ing thing.
I was responding to another poster asking the same question...0 -
I see a lot of people still get their nutritional advice from Cosmopolitan...0
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The bolded was to show what ingredients are shared with regular coke...
Caramel color or caramel coloring is a water-soluble food coloring. It is made by heat treatment of carbohydrates, in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization.
So what's the problem?
So what's the problem? They said they underlined, yet it seems they actually bolded.
Other than that, not a f'ing thing.
I was responding to another poster asking the same question...
I know. But the thing you posted stated that they underlined those things. I was making an (apparently not-so) funneh.0
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