Diet Beverages: The Grand Debate
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Canada Dry 10 (diet ginger ale...especially with vodka) is my new obsession. Coke Zero comes in second.0
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Coke Zero!!0
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Diet Pepsi all the way!0
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Fresca. cause it doesnt have the word diet in it but its secretly diet.0
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Since I still had this page open from an earlier thread...
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Myth 2: Diet sodas make you gain weight.
However, diet drinks helping you lose weight? Hm...not so sure about that one.
I don't understand why this is confusing? If people are normally consuming regularly sweetened drinks (soda, juice, etc) and switch to diet soda with zero calories, they are saving anywhere from 100-500 cals or more/day depending how many of the regular drinks they averaged? So why wouldn't that help you lose weight, to cut out caloric drinks and replace them with no/low caloric drinks?
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The_Enginerd wrote: »I thought this was going be a debate on which diet soda was the best.
The answer is A&W diet root beer, BTW.
^This is the only correct answer.0 -
HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!0
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HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
Well, since diet soda is 99% water, I'm good!
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I will actually give the tip to A&W 10 over diet A&W, but the 10 calorie drinks a grey area.I_Will_End_You wrote: »Canada Dry 10 (diet ginger ale...especially with vodka) is my new obsession. Coke Zero comes in second.
A couple days ago, I mixed diet Coke and Coke Zero together. It was actually pretty glorious. #YOLO
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HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
Yep, pure clean water with no crap in it.
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HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
Montezuma's Revenge... Beaver Fever... water can be downright dangerous!0 -
Exactly! It's not the water but what else is in it that's the problem.0
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Good thing correlation does not equal causation! Phew.
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I would say the causation was fairly well defined. Though it does require reading it.
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I used to drink diet soda and yes I did lose weight. That is because I replaced regular soda with the diet variety.
However, from my understanding, diet soda still causes your insulin levels to spike.
Without the actual sugar in your blood/body this can make you feel like absolute *kitten* and thus CRAVE the sugar your body thinks you have ingested.
Let's also consider the "harmful" sugar replacements like aspartame in diet soda, which over a life time can increase your risk of cancer and blindness. Not a risk I'm willing to take unfortunately.
I was "addicted" to coke zero, I drank it every day, without fail, more than water. I went cold turkey last year in June and haven't touched a cola product since.
I'm not perfect, but if I can avoid chemicals/additives/junk in one important part of my life (so hard to do these days) I will.0 -
Diet soda aids in weight loss about as much as water does. Both have zero calories.
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I would say the causation was fairly well defined. Though it does require reading it.
"Epidemiologists from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio reported data showing that diet soft drink consumption is associated with increased waist circumference in humans, and a second study that found aspartame raised fasting glucose (blood sugar) in diabetes-prone mice."
"We determined associations between diet soda consumption and risk of incident metabolic syndrome, its components, and type 2 diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis."
"Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome"
The final one said quite a bit about how studies are mixed but ended with this:
"In terms of general public health recommendations or clinical advice, the scientific evidence does not presently support a blanket recommendation to either consume or avoid ASB consumption in and of itself."
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HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
Montezuma's Revenge... Beaver Fever... water can be downright dangerous!
I had giardia once (beaver fever). Worst time of my life. I was pretty sure I was going to die.0 -
I'd challenge that through time humans drank untreated water (probably cleaner than now). Now all drinking water is chemically treated for safety except in countries that can't afford to do it.HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
Water is important, but one doesn't have to restrict themselves to just water. There's coffee, tea, diet drinks, dairy, etc. to choose from and still be safe.
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BenjaminMFP88 wrote: »levitateme wrote: »I drink diet soda every day, between 1 and 5 cans (lol) and I find that doesn't help or hinder my weight loss. I definitely should drink more water, but that's neither here nor there.
Considering that soda is almost entirely water, you're probably good.
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Beaver Fever? I was going to Google, then decided that probably wasn't a good idea.0
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Here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis
Not anything you ever want to experience and I've passed kidney stones...0 -
HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
Hmmm, back when there was only water to drink, people lived an average of 30 something years. Now that there's diet beverages, the average life span is over 70 years. Coincidence?0
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