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    Will a diet coke here and there hurt?

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    • Posts: 852 Member
      I drink Diet Coke almost every day with my lunch. I drink even more of it on Fridays since it is my mixer of choice with Captain Morgan spiced rum (Skinny Pirate). In fact, I am ALL HOPPED UP ON DIET COKE RIGHT NOW!!!! :D
    • Posts: 137 Member
      I loved reading all the responses! Thanks for making my day! I drink a Diet Coke everyday. Makes me SO happy!
    • Posts: 294 Member
      I hope not! I have one Coke Zero a week. I look forward to it and I don't intend on cutting it out.
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Full of chemicals.....crap
    • Posts: 38,448 MFP Moderator
      mpheredia3 wrote: »
      Full of chemicals.....crap

      Same chemical and byproduct found in natural foods.
    • Posts: 1,584 Member
      jennymstokes wrote: »
      I haven't really been drinking anything but water and just kind of wanted to switch it up for lunch and have me a diet coke. I know a lot of people say they aren't good for you.

      there are lots of things we eat, do and use every day that aren't good for us. an occasional diet coke isn't going to be high on the "bad for you" list.
    • Posts: 726 Member
      edited March 2016
      psulemon wrote: »
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      Same chemical and byproduct found in natural foods.

      Are you seriously going to make that claim? Have you ever actually read the ingredients? Enjoy one if you want, but no, not all that stuff is found in nature. I know aspartame for one is controversial, but you can't say that it's found in nature.
    • Posts: 38,448 MFP Moderator
      edited March 2016
      lisawinning4losing wrote: »
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      Are you seriously going to make that claim? Have you ever actually read the ingredients? Enjoy one if you want, but no, not all that stuff is found in nature. I know aspartame for one is controversial, but you can't say that it's found in nature.

      Have read this?

      http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary/p1

      Aspartame are amino acids found in other foods.
    • Posts: 726 Member
      edited March 2016
      Yeah, but you'll also say that high fructose syrup is found in nature, even though it's gone through a huge amount of processing and definitely isn't found in nature. And most health experts, even the World Health Organization, recommend that you avoid it. Fructose is found in nature. But HFCS is not. And I promise that aspartame isn't either.
    • Posts: 726 Member
      edited March 2016
      All you've proven is that everything invented has to come from materials that exist somewhere on earth. By that logic, plastic is found in nature. It's made from petroleum, after all. In fact, by that logic, literally everything is found in nature. But it isn't.
    • Posts: 38,448 MFP Moderator
      lisawinning4losing wrote: »
      Yeah, but you'll also say that high fructose syrup is found in nature, even though it's gone through a huge amount of processing and definitely isn't found in nature. And most health experts, even the World Health Organization, recommend that you avoid it. Fructose is found in nature. But HFCS is not. And I promise that aspartame isn't either.

      This isn't a discussion on HFCS, so I struggle to understand why that is part of the argument. Aspartame is a chemical compounded of phenylalanine and aspartate, which are naturally occuring amino acids found in all proteins.
    • Posts: 567 Member
      Diet root beer is better.
    • Posts: 4,044 Member
      Diet Dr Pepper FTW!!!! :p
    • Posts: 25,763 Member
      lisawinning4losing wrote: »
      All you've proven is that everything invented has to come from materials that exist somewhere on earth. By that logic, plastic is found in nature. It's made from petroleum, after all. In fact, by that logic, literally everything is found in nature. But it isn't.

      Who cares? Lots of useful, pleasurable, and non-harmful things aren't found in nature. And lots of unuseful, non-pleasurable, and harmful things are found in nature.

      This entire route of conversation is a dead end. What's the point?
    • Posts: 5,377 Member
      lisawinning4losing wrote: »
      Yeah, but you'll also say that high fructose syrup is found in nature, even though it's gone through a huge amount of processing and definitely isn't found in nature. And most health experts, even the World Health Organization, recommend that you avoid it. Fructose is found in nature. But HFCS is not. And I promise that aspartame isn't either.

      HFCS isn't even one thing. It is various levels of fructose to sucrose in solution, anytime the fructose percentage is 55% or greater, they call it high. Honey is actually fairly analogous in composition to the higher fructose versions, if I recall correctly. Unnatural bees.
      What is unnatural is the process to make it, but that doesn't matter if it is properly filtered back out. It is unnatural because people can do things faster, better, cheaper than nature.
    • Posts: 7,739 Member
      lisawinning4losing wrote: »
      All you've proven is that everything invented has to come from materials that exist somewhere on earth. By that logic, plastic is found in nature. It's made from petroleum, after all. In fact, by that logic, literally everything is found in nature. But it isn't.


      Some plastic is made from petroleum - most actually aren't. And I'm not sure about you, but I don't eat or drink plastic or petroleum. So, I'm not sure what your point is, other than you don't know what you're talking about - so you're just rambling about things that are essentially nonsense.
    • Posts: 353 Member
      fastfoodietofitcutie wrote: »
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      What's wrong with carbonation?

      Nothing. That's what makes it a nutritional benefit. ;)
    • Posts: 353 Member
      Did You Know: Caramel coloring is a superfood. #themoreyouknow
    • Posts: 4,647 Member
      senecarr wrote: »
      Diet coke is fine.
      I find posting about diet coke and reading the responses raises my blood pressure though, so I would recommend drinking a diet coke over asking about drinking diet coke.

      ^5
    • Posts: 88 Member
      No.
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      .... At a medium pace ....
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      odusgolp wrote: »
      .... At a medium pace ....

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      senecarr wrote: »
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    • Posts: 16,011 Member
      According to the American Cancer Society, aspartame is safe:

      http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/aspartame

      And since lots of woo uses Authority Nutrition as a "source" , they don't even think it should be avoided:

      https://authoritynutrition.com/aspartame-good-or-bad/

    • Posts: 83 Member
      WakkoW wrote: »
      Diet root beer is better.

      Diet Root Beer is the BEST

    • Posts: 6 Member
      This forum can be funny.....some worry that a diet coke (a day) is not good for our bodies yet most of us will say....sit in traffic sucking in exhaust fumes and not think twice about it (just an example). Love the post above (from senecarr) right on !!
    • Posts: 733 Member
      PocketPunky wrote: »
      Depends how hard they throw it at you.

      haha, and where it hits you.

    • Posts: 3,779 Member
      you can have one in a box
      you can have one with a fox
      you can have one in a house
      you can have one with a mouse
      you can have one here and there
      you can have one ANYWHERE!
    • Posts: 1,765 Member
      You can have it with green eggs and ham!

      You can have it, Sam I Am!

      ...sorry, Green Eggs and Ham was one of my favourites when I was a kid.

      Am drinking a diet coke right now.
    • Posts: 11,502 Member
      It will hurt electronics, but it is safe to drink for all except for the few who have medical issues.

      Personally, I prefer Diet Pepsi. It tastes much better, but I acknowledge that some here will say that Diet Pepsi is a kind of diet Coke because of regional dielects (i.e. Diet Pepsi is a diet Coke, diet soda, diet soda pop, diet pop, etc.)
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