Artificial Sweetners-Gum and Diet Pop

LiLee2018

I use artificial sweeteners and drink diet dr pepper every day. Doesn't seem to be holding me back and it helps to keep this healthier way of eating more sustainable. I don't feel so deprived.

ExistingFish

I used to be afraid of aspartame sweeteners. The majority of posters on here have shown me the light, and I now enjoy Coke Zero and Diet Dr Pepper as part of a well-balanced diet. I have concluded diet soda is just sweetened, colored, carbonated water with some caffeine added. It's barely more than sparkling water.

To the OP, I haven't noticed any side effects when using stevia, except I'm not a fan of the straight taste. I am drinking Coke Life as I type this, which has stevia but they saw fit to add cane sugar as well (at the cost of some calories) because I'm sure their taste testers agreed, straight stevia isn't the same as sugar.

My husband has stevia in his coffee every morning, I have monk fruit sweetener. I prefer the taste. OP might want to try them, I get some called Wholesome Earth (I believe, or Whole Earth?) from Target or Kroger, in a green box.

I do find I pee more often when I drink (diet) soda, but it's because it tastes good, so I probably drink a little more than straight water. I drink water when I'm thirsty but I stop when I'm no longer thirsty. I drink (diet) soda because I find the taste and carbonation pleasing.

ata1anta

I'm a stevia fan. Tried to grow it, but it can be a little finicky in this area (and I'm not so good with plants). I use dried stevia leaves in my iced tea. I like sweet leaf and stevia in the raw brands, though I don't find it bitter like many people do. Whatever the brand is they just started carrying at WaWa I don't like that, THAT one is bitter (I think it's something they use in the mix because I don't taste it with straight stevia).

I've not had issues with Aspartame, Sucralose, Fructose, Glucose, or any other sweetener, natural or otherwise.

oat_bran

So nobody else besides OP has issues with frequent urination due to artificial sweeteners? For years I've struggled with frequent urination, and especially at night it's an issue (I wake up 2-4 times to pee at night), but doctors says I'm fine. So I was just attributing it to drinking a lot in general and thinking it's just a particularity of my body.

But now that OP have mentioned frequent urination can be caused by artificial sweeteners, I wonder if that could be the cause in my case as well? I don't drink diet soda, but use a lot of sucralose to sweeten things like porridge etc. and water flavoring syrups I use have acesulfam-k in it. I use stevia and sugar alcahols as well but much less frequently. Also many of the protein bars, protein powders and low-cal foods I eat are sweetened artificially.

I don't remember reading anything before about the connection between frequent urination and artificial sweeteners, but from what I understand it's actually hard to check by elimination since it "wears the bladder over time". I imagine that after years of artificial sweeteners use My bladder is not in good state (if the artificial sweeteners indeed cause the increase in the frequency of urination).

k8lyn8306

Artificial sweeteners have no impact on your weight gain/loss, but that doesn’t mean they are not important. They can harm your body internally bc they are chemicals you are putting into your body. Your 70 year old self will thank you for cutting them out.

kimny72

k8lyn8306 wrote: »

Artificial sweeteners have no impact on your weight gain/loss, but that doesn’t mean they are not important. They can harm your body internally bc they are chemicals you are putting into your body. Your 70 year old self will thank you for cutting them out.

Would you mind backing that up with real, scientific sources please? Because anything I've seen says that's not true.

And FYI, water is a chemical you put in your body.

BruceHedtke

k8lyn8306 wrote: »

Artificial sweeteners have no impact on your weight gain/loss, but that doesn’t mean they are not important. They can harm your body internally bc they are chemicals you are putting into your body. Your 70 year old self will thank you for cutting them out.

You do realize that every single thing that exists in the universe is made up of chemicals, right? Even if you drink nothing but water, you're drinking chemicals. All to wash down the chemicals you just ate.

PAV8888

kemikalz!

U know, when I was >270lbs I believed the couple of studies that said drinking diet pop made you fat, and so I drank regular pop.

And I also believed that olive oil is healthy, and so I poured olive oil on my salad and on my "Greek style" potatoes (about 450g or 4000 Calories of olive oil per pan of potatoes)

My coffees came with 3 creams and 3 sugars...

I am now ~155lbs and drink diet Coke and Coke zero, eat 0% sucralose sweetened yogurt, and tend to drink my coffee black, or at most with 30ml of 2% milk per 24oz of coffee. I also frequently experiment with sweetening things that need sweetening with 0 Cal liquid sucralose... because stevia's taste sucks *kittens*

My last pan of "Greek style" potatoes had 120g or 1061 Calories of olive oil and this type of potatoes is no longer a multiple times a month, or even a monthly occurrence: I am much more likely toss baby potatoes straight into the BBQ plain, or coated with, at most, 8 to 10g of oil per 750g of potatoes.

Having all that coke zero and saving the calories on my coffee allows me to frequently have ~260 Cal vanilla cones at McD's...