Thoughts on Diet Coke
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I don't drink soda often, and if I do it's ginger ale or regular drinks. I find all diet drinks to taste fake, and I really don't like the whole artificial sweetener and colorings in my diet.0
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I have found that Diet Soda's cause me to retain water really bad. The sodium is terrible in those things. I am guilty of having one ever so often, but I try to stay away. I would rather see weight loss than have a soda.0
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I prefer diet pepsi, but I am slowing changing to Propel Zero flavored water, with no sugar, no calories!0
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Diet coke is something I will not give up, now I just have 1 a day instead of 3 LOL!!0
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Diet Pepsi tastes better...................................2-3 cans a day for me over the last 25 years.
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Yeah pepsi is way better! i'm also into kinesiology and nutrition, nice!0 -
I would go for something with less real sugar as opposed to more sugar substitute. Pepsi Next is 60 calories, but it's 60 calories of natural sugar, not the stuff that turns your kidneys into a fine leather handbag.0
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Aspertame can cause an allergic reaction in certain people. My stepmom went on Atikins and started drinking all sorts of diet pepsi and got horribly sick after a while, now she can't even chew sugar free gum (most contain aspertame) without getting sick. But I eat yoplait light yogurt (I like how it tastes better than the normal) and it doesn't bother me at all.
Though as far as health is concerned, eating less processed man-made food is probably going to be much better for your health.0 -
I have found that Diet Soda's cause me to retain water really bad. The sodium is terrible in those things. I am guilty of having one ever so often, but I try to stay away. I would rather see weight loss than have a soda.
Actually diet sodas are low in sodium.0 -
Moderation, moderation, moderation!
I drink it about 4-5x a week. Especially if I'm out to dinner.
I'm a fan of Diet Dr. Pepper & Coke Zero.0 -
It's not part of eating clean - basically a chemical cocktail. Better to do a nice herb tea or of you want fizz do a carbonated water.
Posts like this crack me up. People are so good at coming up with scaaaary sounding stuff that means absolutely nothing.
"Chemical cocktail". Well, so is tea. Steeping herbs or tea leaves requires the chemical properties of the water and of the substances (tannins, flavanoids, polyphenols, antioxidants, caffeine, etc) in the leaf to interact.0 -
Pepsi Max, Diet Dew, Diet A&W & the best of all, the 10 manly calories in Dr. Pepper 10! Regular pop tastes like crap with all that sugar!
Whatever happened to what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger? Everything is bad for you in one way or another, & remember, it's not the years in your life, but the life in your years!
Funny, I love Diet Dr Pepper, I dig Regular Dr Pepper (though I generally don't drink it anymore) and if I can score it, Dr Pepper made with SUGAR and not HFCS is awesome because you can slowly heat it and the Maillard reaction transforms it into liquid gold (figuratively speaking)
But the 10 calorie Dr Pepper tastes like they took normal Dr Pepper and added water to it until it was only 10 calories a serving. Awful awful stuff.
Oh and pick up your can and look at the logo, it's Dr Pepper and not Dr. Pepper0 -
I drink 2-3 a day. That said, my husband used it to remove battery acid corrosion from my car last night. Worked like a charm0
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The latest I have read is they have found a link btw diet soda drinkers and obesity by way of cravings for carbs (I believe)
There's nothing conclusive to that. There's been a lot of speculation, but no link.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-sodas-and-weight-gain-not-so-fast
I find that there is a link.. for me. There may or may not be a link for you. Not TASTING sweet constantly allowed me to better control my cravings for sweet, and I find that a much smaller amount of sweet now satisfies me and the kind of amounts I used to have of it I now find revolting.
But that's me. I make no claims about how giving up a constant input of sweet flavor might affect anyone else's dietary preferences. I'd urge you to experiment with it for yourself if you have an interest in it.0 -
I've actually learned that diet sodas are worse for you than regulars. The "0 calorie" kind of fools you. In diet sodas, the synthetic sugars don't mesh well with the enzymes you have in your stomach. This causes you to bloat and expand in your waist, and you'll gain the weight in your mid-section, which is the worst part of your body to carry your weight. Just saying0
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I drink Tab. Two cans a day. Flame away. :-)0
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I drink diet pop all the time.
My sister drank it all the time while PREGNANT and her kids have all their toes.
My Grandmother drinks it and she is 95 living on her own.
I dislike the diet pop nazis
MMMMMM mcdonalds fountain pop!!
I agree that Mcd's has the best Diet Coke. I get it with lemon and it is DIVINE!!!
I am currently drinking 1-2 cans a day, down from 4-5. I wasn't even drinking water then. In an ideal world I would not drink it at all, but I don't see that happening anytime soon!0 -
I hate diet coke, but I am a sucker for regular coke, something I seriously need to cut down on!0
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A Sugar is natural. Aspartame is not.
Your body can't tell natural sugar from artificial sugar, to it, sugar is sugar.PS I stay away from drinking my calories in general. Your body doesn't register it as food so you're still hungry. The only thing I drink is water.
And neither will kill you...in moderation! I don't necessarily advocate eating heaping amounts of either.0 -
I drink it all the time, mixed with a little bacardi it is my beer subsitute :-) But serisouly as stated before no harm, but moderation is the key word.0
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I usually drink one or two diet drinks a day. Diet Dr. Pepper is my favorite of the diet sodas.0
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Probably harmless, the FDA is happy with it.
I will, however, state a non-medical personal two-part opinion on sweet drinks which you may take or ignore as you like.
Chemicals are our friends. We use chemicals every day for a variety of ways to benefit our bodies. I submit that using a chemical to make a drink sweet may not be an optimal use if you can learn to do without it. There's a near-zero chance that aspartame is hurting your weight loss, but a zero chance that unsweetened water would.
I found when I was drinking soda frequently that the daily ingestion of something sweet exacerbated my cravings for other sweet things, even if that sweet was from a zero-calorie sweetener. I switched from full-sugar soda to diet, and didn't notice much of a difference. When I gave up soda entirely, my outlook on food underwent a pretty dramatic change for the better. In my personal experience, which may or may not match yours, I find things like donuts and sweets a lot easier to resist now that the diet soda monkey is off my back. I also enjoy the actual taste of sweet things more but get tired of the sweetness sooner, and therefore can get by with a lot less of them to satisfy what cravings I do have. My overall diet is a lot cleaner, and it wasn't really much of a conscious effort on my part once the diet soda went bye-bye.
I agree with this perspective. Thanks0 -
That stuff is not good for you. It's pretty much like drinking liquid chemicals - not good for your body! There are 'soda' like drinks that are made from all natural sweetener, like zevia. You should look into those
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You should be encouraging people to strive for an ideal - not some chemical laced soda.
We all could list stuff.
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Aspartame isn't natural. I read that it is somehow related to formeldahyde. If you want the Coke just drink the Coke. At least your body knows how to deal with sugar. Sugar is natural. Aspartame is not.
PS I stay away from drinking my calories in general. Your body doesn't register it as food so you're still hungry. The only thing I drink is water.
As for drinking calories, there millions of people that drink protein shakes that use them as meals or snacks. Do some peer reviewed research and you can learn more.
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Its Garbage0
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It's not part of eating clean - basically a chemical cocktail. Better to do a nice herb tea or of you want fizz do a carbonated water.
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At what dosage is this poisonous or toxic and at what dosage does it cause problems?
Go ahead, I'll wait.
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I've actually learned that diet sodas are worse for you than regulars. The "0 calorie" kind of fools you. In diet sodas, the synthetic sugars don't mesh well with the enzymes you have in your stomach. This causes you to bloat and expand in your waist, and you'll gain the weight in your mid-section, which is the worst part of your body to carry your weight. Just saying
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I have found that Diet Soda's cause me to retain water really bad. The sodium is terrible in those things. I am guilty of having one ever so often, but I try to stay away. I would rather see weight loss than have a soda.
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That stuff is not good for you. It's pretty much like drinking liquid chemicals - not good for your body! There are 'soda' like drinks that are made from all natural sweetener, like zevia. You should look into those
A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
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Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
You should be encouraging people to strive for an ideal - not some chemical laced soda.
We all could list stuff.
Been in fitness for 48 years
College Level Athlete
Coached Seven children through High School Athletics
BS in Health
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ETC.
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I love diet coke, I don't have it every day and mainly drink it if I am socialising as I don't drink alcohol very often. Fruit juices just have too many calories in them, and to be honest I'm sure the acid in them is just as bad for your teeth as fizzy drinks!0
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