why to quit diet soda

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  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
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    I won't drink soda at all..... Main reason... Put a cooked chicken breast in any soda and see how long it lasts.. if it can deteriorate any thing of the sort... why the hell would you put it in your body?

    A man tried to sue coca cola for finding a mouse in his drink, couldn't be proven why?
    Because the argument was, it would have been deteriorated by then.

    I decided to test this out myself a while ago... A co workers daughter tested it.

    Bye Bye Chicken breast in less than 3 hours... Don't you find that disgusting?

    Did you know the acid in your stomach can eat through carpet? OMG we better figure out a way to get that out.
    Im my 8th grade science class we tried the meat in soda,it lasted DAYS before the janitor threw it out
  • weaverfit
    weaverfit Posts: 124
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    16 days Diet Coke free now... and it really wasn't as hard to quit this time (tried before). I drink tons of water now and am mostly satisfied.
  • BaileyBoo13524
    BaileyBoo13524 Posts: 593 Member
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    This is great info, but I've lost all my weight while drinking Diet Coke. I know it's not the best for me, but everything these days causes some kind of ailment or disease so I think I'm going to continue to enjoy it, but maybe scale back from 2-3 cans per day to one can per day!
  • CalJur
    CalJur Posts: 627 Member
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    I drink a single can of diet Pepsi per day. I think moderation with most foods and drinks make nearly anything doable. Studies don't move me. Who conducted the study? Who was the test population? What questions were asked? How were they asked? You can conduct a study to support nearly any conclusion you wish. Bottom line is to use common sense.
  • admanMike
    admanMike Posts: 371 Member
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    I love my diet coke/pepsi. I have 2-3 per day with goal to get it to one per day.

    Our soda machine at work is only 25 cents so its hard to pass i up...Much easier to pass it up at restaurants where they jab you over $1 - $2 for soda.
  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
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    :yawn:
  • laddyboy
    laddyboy Posts: 1,565 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    How about this...is this enough for you?

    Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled "DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE." Dr. Roberts tells how ASPARTAME POISONING is escalating Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's Disease.

    I find the idea that aspartame increases the chances of degenerative mental disorders interesting. I find it less interesting when someone's trying to sell me a book on it.

    It's not to sell you a book silly, it's to show that someone has actually done research on the subject and wrote a book about it.
  • ButtercupSprad
    ButtercupSprad Posts: 117
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    I dont drink soda's......no disrespect to those who do. Guess its better than being on drugs or being an alcoholic.
  • MikeSEA
    MikeSEA Posts: 1,074 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    How about this...is this enough for you?

    Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled "DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE." Dr. Roberts tells how ASPARTAME POISONING is escalating Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's Disease.

    I find the idea that aspartame increases the chances of degenerative mental disorders interesting. I find it less interesting when someone's trying to sell me a book on it.

    It's not to sell you a book silly, it's to show that someone has actually done research on the subject and wrote a book about it.

    Oh cool. So the book is free then?
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    How about this...is this enough for you?

    Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled "DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE." Dr. Roberts tells how ASPARTAME POISONING is escalating Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's Disease.

    Thats proof? thats just some guy trying to sell books
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    How about this...is this enough for you?

    Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled "DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE." Dr. Roberts tells how ASPARTAME POISONING is escalating Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's Disease.

    I find the idea that aspartame increases the chances of degenerative mental disorders interesting. I find it less interesting when someone's trying to sell me a book on it.

    It's not to sell you a book silly, it's to show that someone has actually done research on the subject and wrote a book about it.

    Reserch thats only accesible if you buy the book
  • strawberrie_milk
    strawberrie_milk Posts: 381 Member
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    Diet soda obviously isn't healthy for you, but it won't make you fat. I've noticed there are quite a few studies that correlate diet soda with obesity/weight gain but correlation does not imply causation. Overweight people are more likely to drink diet soda, and they may also think it makes it okay to eat more fatty foods since diet soda has zero calories. Weight loss is simply calories in / calories out, and diet soda will not directly cause you to gain fat.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    I'm scared of peer-reviewed articles....and scare-science. :ohwell:
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    I'm scared of peer-reviewed articles....and scare-science. :ohwell:

    But somebody wrote a book on how bad it is so it must be true
  • 12skipafew99100
    12skipafew99100 Posts: 1,669 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    How about this...is this enough for you?

    Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled "DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE." Dr. Roberts tells how ASPARTAME POISONING is escalating Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's Disease.

    This is scarey enough for me. Having survived a brain tumor at the age of 43 years of age. I think, why risk it?
  • mtperry9
    mtperry9 Posts: 49 Member
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    I have had people try and convince me of this a number of times. I have a Diet Coke at night ... for love all that is holy, I need something with flavor after a day of water after water. I don't have one every night, but I will occasionally. And if I am feeling particularly rebellious, I throw the uber fitness fanatics into a tizzy by adding just a bit of Bacardi to it.
  • arc918
    arc918 Posts: 2,037 Member
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    You'll have to pry the Diet Mountian Dew from cold, dead hands!
  • nikolaim5
    nikolaim5 Posts: 233
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    Few compounds have been researched as much as Aspartame. The science says it's safe. I'm good with that.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
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    every one of my 82 lost pounds was saturated in Coke Zero.

    And I'm still alive.

    I don't buy into scare-science. Show me some peer-reviewed articles and I may be interested.

    I'm scared of peer-reviewed articles....and scare-science. :ohwell:

    But somebody wrote a book on how bad it is so it must be true

    It's also on the internet so I already believe it.
  • sweet_lotus
    sweet_lotus Posts: 194 Member
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    The Danish study is actually pretty interesting.

    47 overweight and obese people were divided into four groups, each assigned a different beverage: soda, diet soda, milk and water and instructed to drink 1L/day. 1L of soda is about 3 cans. Soda in Denmark is made with sucrose (regular sugar), not HFCS.

    After six months, "total fat mass was not significantly different between the 4 beverage groups." So, that's kind of weird. You would expect the people consuming the soda and milk to accumulate fat mass on the basis of extra calories alone. However, this is just from the abstract - I don't have journal access to see if the study gave more information on their dietary intake - whether that was controlled or not.

    The regular soda drinkers had higher levels of visceral, hepatic, and skeletal fat, and higher triglycerides. Milk and diet cola reduced blood pressure!

    So, this suggests that people who are overweight and obese had an actual redistribution of fat toward areas linked with cardiovascular risk from drinking soda.

    This is a tiny sample based on 12 people, and would need to be reproduced on a larger scale (preferably with a controlled dietary intake) order to have scientific merit. But, it's interesting.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/us-sugary-soda-idUSTRE80B1WS20120112
    http://www.ajcn.org/content/95/2/283

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