diet cola

ninerbuff

It's hard to diet when drinking any pop...it makes you crave sugar & junk food.

This varies from person to person.


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To the person that said there have been no studies that have linked aspartame to ill health. I did a quick search and found these 3:

1. Lovett, Richard
Source: New Scientist; 5/6/2006, Vol. 190 Issue 2550, p40-43, 4p
This article focuses on the health aspects of aspartame. Aspartame, also known in Europe as E951, is the artificial sweetener people love to hate. Since it was approved for food use 25 years ago it has been linked to pretty much every health scare going, from brain tumours to insomnia and mood swings. In 2005 a group of scientists at the European Ramazzini Foundation in Bentivoglio, near Bologna in Italy, published some new findings. When the foundation's researchers added aspartame to the diet of 1500 rats, they saw an increase in the incidence of leukaemias and lymphomas, cancers of the blood and lymphatic systems, particularly among females. Notably, cancer incidence rose even in rats fed the equivalent of half the World Health Organization's acceptable daily intake of 40 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram of body weight.

2. Bandyopadhyay, Atrayee1
Ghoshal, Sarbani2
Mukherjee, Anita1 anitamukherjee28@gmail.com
Source: Drug & Chemical Toxicology; 2008, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p447-457, 11p, 1 Diagram, 2 Charts

Low-calorie sweeteners are chemicals that offer the sweetness of sugar without the calories. Consumers are increasingly concerned about the quality and safety of many products present in the diet, in particular, the use of low-calorie sweeteners, flavorings, colorings, preservatives, and dietary supplements. In the present study, we evaluated the mutagenicity of the three low-calorie sweeteners in the Ames/Salmonella/microsome test and their genotoxic potential by comet assay in the bone marrow cells of mice. Swiss albino mice, Mus musculus, were orally administered with different concentrations of aspartame (ASP; 7, 14, 28, and 35 mg/kg body weight), acesulfame-K (ASK; 150, 300, and 600 mg/kg body weight), and saccharin (50, 100, and 200 mg/kg body weight) individually. Concurrently negative and positive control sets were maintained. The animals were sacrificed and the bone marrow cells were processed for comet assay. The standard plate-incorporation assay was carried with the three sweeteners in Salmonella typhimurium TA 97a and TA 100 strains both in the absence and presence of the S9 mix. The comet parameters of DNA were increased in the bone marrow cells due to the sweetener-induced DNA strand breaks, as revealed by increased comet-tail extent and percent DNA in the tail. ASK and saccharin were found to induce greater DNA damage than ASP. However, none could act as a potential mutagen in the Ames/Salmonella /microsome test. These findings are important, since they represent a potential health risk associated with the exposure to these agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

3. Hull, Janet Starr
Source: Total Health; Feb/Mar2005, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p30-32, 3p

Reveals the health hazards of artificial sweeteners. Denial of corporations on the connection between aspartame and obesity; Chemical sweeteners that may be causing users to show signs of weight gain and sexual dysfunction; Artificial sweeteners to be avoided.

Despite all of this I was addicted to diet soda too. I am not saying people shouldn't drink it, that's not for me to decide but I also think it is not good to be disillusioned about the ill affects such substances might have on our health either. We really don't know what all of the potential health risks associated with artificial sweeteners are. But there certainly is science to support there might be some risks (not just "natural quackery" or whatever someone posted earlier in this thread). My take on it is moderation is probably okay. I was not able to drink coke zero in moderation so I had to quit somewhat recently. I'm not sure if it will help me lose weight/change something about my body or health because it hasn't been enough time to notice any of that . But I'm glad I quit. It is probably best not to put these extra chemicals in my body either way. Clean water is the best thing for the body and I crave it too.

Good thing we aren't mice or rats. Now find actual human studies that show that artificial sweeteners CAUSE health problems, because I haven't seen any.

Dave198lbs

don't let the name deceive you. too much of anything is not good. diet cola is no exception. 4 a day is too much. try to cut back and drink water or juice in its place.

recent documentary "weight of the Nation" said something to the effect that drinking orange juice is even with or more detrimental to weight loss than regular soda/pop

a glass of orange juice is very high in calories and sugar.

this wouldnt apply to diet pop, but replacing diet pop with juice is not a good idea for weight loss

ninerbuff

don't let the name deceive you. too much of anything is not good. diet cola is no exception. 4 a day is too much. try to cut back and drink water or juice in its place.

recent documentary "weight of the Nation" said something to the effect that drinking orange juice is even with or more detrimental to weight loss than regular soda/pop

a glass of orange juice is very high in calories and sugar.

this wouldnt apply to diet pop, but replacing diet pop with juice is not a good idea for weight loss

Yep saw that. I believe it was in the segment about kids too.

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