Is Diet Coke really that bad? Anyone feel better after quiting?

stevencloser

cardioxxbunnyxx wrote: »

I, myself, was addicted to Diet Coke/pepsi. I loved the fact of how it felt me full during my 9-5 job and curbed my 2:30 afternoon slump.. and I was drinking this stuff almost every day.. until I started getting dizzy feeling, like my head was very heavy and could tip back.. like vertigo, at random times, even if I just ate! I went to the doctor and told him what I would eat and drink, and he urged to me cut back on the Diet Coke.. I ended up having an acute toxicity in my body due to the Aspartame. Once I quit the soda, I didn't get that feeling anymore.

Considering the amounts of aspartame you'd need to actually get toxicity from the byproducts, I'd say you should change your doctor.

https://www.andeal.org/topic.cfm?cat=4089

ndj1979

AnvilHead wrote: »

tlanger251 wrote: »

there is some research about diet soda and obesity... i'll try to look for a link maybe... There is usually a small amount of carbs in zero calorie drinks and some of those artificial sweeteners can spike your blood sugar and cause a craving for sugar... google "good and bad artificial sweeteners" I do keto, and i started drinking a ton of diet energy (soda stream) six days ago (instead of my 8 ounce red bull a day) and I got kicked out of ketosis big time. but also i ate popcorn so i'm going to do some detective work. i really hope it's the corn and not the diet drinks!

I'll save you some work - every link anybody has ever posted shows correlation, and correlation is not the same as causation. One can draw a lot of false conclusions from correlation.

For example, here's a correlation: I see a lot of fat people exercising; therefore, exercise makes you fat.
Does that make sense?

exactly, they did a study of overweight people and found that they drink diet soda, so diet soda must have some impact on obesity even though it is zero calories..

excess calories cause obesity people, not zero calorie drinks!

ndj1979

cardioxxbunnyxx wrote: »

I, myself, was addicted to Diet Coke/pepsi. I loved the fact of how it felt me full during my 9-5 job and curbed my 2:30 afternoon slump.. and I was drinking this stuff almost every day.. until I started getting dizzy feeling, like my head was very heavy and could tip back.. like vertigo, at random times, even if I just ate! I went to the doctor and told him what I would eat and drink, and he urged to me cut back on the Diet Coke.. I ended up having an acute toxicity in my body due to the Aspartame. Once I quit the soda, I didn't get that feeling anymore.

so you drank 20+ gallons of diet soda a day???????

stanmann571

ndj1979 wrote: »

cardioxxbunnyxx wrote: »

I, myself, was addicted to Diet Coke/pepsi. I loved the fact of how it felt me full during my 9-5 job and curbed my 2:30 afternoon slump.. and I was drinking this stuff almost every day.. until I started getting dizzy feeling, like my head was very heavy and could tip back.. like vertigo, at random times, even if I just ate! I went to the doctor and told him what I would eat and drink, and he urged to me cut back on the Diet Coke.. I ended up having an acute toxicity in my body due to the Aspartame. Once I quit the soda, I didn't get that feeling anymore.

so you drank 20+ gallons of diet soda a day???????

More likely one of the 1% of the population that suffers from phenylketonuria

stevencloser

stanmann571 wrote: »

ndj1979 wrote: »

cardioxxbunnyxx wrote: »

I, myself, was addicted to Diet Coke/pepsi. I loved the fact of how it felt me full during my 9-5 job and curbed my 2:30 afternoon slump.. and I was drinking this stuff almost every day.. until I started getting dizzy feeling, like my head was very heavy and could tip back.. like vertigo, at random times, even if I just ate! I went to the doctor and told him what I would eat and drink, and he urged to me cut back on the Diet Coke.. I ended up having an acute toxicity in my body due to the Aspartame. Once I quit the soda, I didn't get that feeling anymore.

so you drank 20+ gallons of diet soda a day???????

More likely one of the 1% of the population that suffers from phenylketonuria

Unlikely, you'd know from your infancy if you have it since it requires a special diet low in phenylanine.

paperpudding

stanmann571 wrote: »

ndj1979 wrote: »

cardioxxbunnyxx wrote: »

I, myself, was addicted to Diet Coke/pepsi. I loved the fact of how it felt me full during my 9-5 job and curbed my 2:30 afternoon slump.. and I was drinking this stuff almost every day.. until I started getting dizzy feeling, like my head was very heavy and could tip back.. like vertigo, at random times, even if I just ate! I went to the doctor and told him what I would eat and drink, and he urged to me cut back on the Diet Coke.. I ended up having an acute toxicity in my body due to the Aspartame. Once I quit the soda, I didn't get that feeling anymore.

so you drank 20+ gallons of diet soda a day???????

More likely one of the 1% of the population that suffers from phenylketonuria

Extremely extremely unlikely.

Nobody who has PKU does not know they have it - it is diagnosed in infancy and people with it must follow an extremely strict diet from infancy onward, for life.

celestestar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

AnvilHead

celestestar wrote: »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

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

https://examine.com/nutrition/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982014/

http://seriecientifica.org/sites/default/files/scl_enc_butchko.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24944060/

HeidiCooksSupper

There are two reasons I'm happy I quit Diet Coke:
1. I was less ravenously hungry. I'm one of those people who is made hungry by fake sugar. In my head? Perhaps. I don't care. It was true for me. Diet coke made me crave sweets.
2. My time being tortured by the dental hygienist was cut in half. She noticed immediately that I had stopped the diet coke. Tooth cleanings are a breeze now.