Diet pop

weightgoesbyebye

I stopped drinking sugar pop and went to diet pop. I know it has aspartame but is that better then the non diet pops. I know both are most likely bad but baby steps. How much diet pop is too much because of the aspartame. I have 2 355ml cans daily.

Thanks

Terytha

Aspartame becomes toxic at 4000mg/kg of body weight, or at approximately 1,600 cans of Diet Coke.

Keep it to less than 1,000 cans a day just to be on the safe side.

apullum

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

kimny72

The only danger backed by quantifiable evidence suggests that if you are a rat, you should not spend your entire life marinated in aspartame. It probably won't turn out well.

I tend to try to stick to one can per day, due to caffeine and carbonation overload. I would say, until the rest of your diet, activity level, and health is perfect I wouldn't worry about a couple of cans of diet pop

echmain3

And once again I’ll mention Zevia.

There are a dozen flavors or so and they use a natural, non caloric sweetener (stevia).

My favorite flavors are grape, black cherry, ginger root beer, and Dr Zevia (their Dr Pepper knockoff).

You can get single 16 Oz cans so you can try it first. Not everyone likes the flavor. And it’s fairly expensive.

zeejane4

weightgoesbyebye wrote: »

I stopped drinking sugar pop and went to diet pop. I know it has aspartame but is that better then the non diet pops. I know both are most likely bad but baby steps. How much diet pop is too much because of the aspartame. I have 2 355ml cans daily.

Thanks

I switched from regular to diet 7 years ago, when I started my weight loss phase. Since then I've drank 2-4+ cans of diet soda a day. I haven't grown a tail yet

I'm actually cutting it out right now, in large part to save some money (I was a Coke brand snob, lol), but I'm still using artificial sweetener in my coffee and in my flavored water enhancers. I actually bought sweet pickles today that are sweetened with Splenda, really good tasting!

AnnPT77

The idea that the mainstream stevia based sodas are "all natural" strikes me as mostly marketing, for what most people might assume when seeing the phrase "all natural". It's not powdered stevia leaves in there. Quoting Wikipedia's Stevia article:

Rebaudioside A has the least bitterness of all the steviol glycosides in the Stevia rebaudiana plant. To produce rebaudioside A commercially, stevia plants are dried and subjected to a water extraction process. This crude extract contains about 50% rebaudioside A. The various glycosides are separated and purified via crystallization techniques, typically using ethanol or methanol as solvent.

Stevia extracts and derivatives are produced industrially and marketed under different trade names.

* Rebiana is an abbreviated name for the stevia extract, rebaudioside A.
* Truvia is the brand for an erythritol and rebiana sweetener concoction manufactured by Cargill and developed jointly with the Coca-Cola Company.
* PureVia is PepsiCo's brand of rebiana.

I'm not asserting that these stevia-based sweeteners are bad or unhealthy or that people shouldn't drink the sodas that contain them. I don't think there's anything evil about "processing". I'm just saying that the "all natural" marketing . . . well, it seems like a stretch, to me. The initial chemical input to the industrial process came from a plant, that's it. Not that different from table sugar, in that respect. Just fewer calories - which can be helpful.