Diet sodas are not bad after all!!!

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  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    You can find a study to support almost any view, good or bad.

    Just because one study says someting is ok doesn't mean it is.... and for the record, I am not against diet pop at all.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Is it bad that I was SUPER happy reading this??? http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/02/20/diet-pop-not-linked-to-spike-in-hunger-cravings-among-overweight-cohort-u-s-study/

    :drinker:
  • sammyantics
    sammyantics Posts: 191 Member
    You can find a study to support almost any view, good or bad.

    Just because one study says someting is ok doesn't mean it is.... and for the record, I am not against diet pop at all.

    That is so unbelievably true. I'm a marketing writer, and I read health studies all day, every day. Coffee is a big one that gets defended and attacked constantly.

    I LOVE Diet Coke, but the key to anything is moderation, right?

    The study even says, "But they don’t prove pounding back diet drinks is harmless." So, don't go overboard in celebration.
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    Who said they were? How dare someone make a statement like that against Diet Dr. Pepper (TM).
  • KenosFeoh
    KenosFeoh Posts: 1,837 Member
    Diet Coke is pretty good with rum or bourbon. I've never tried it with both.
  • MyNameIsRita
    MyNameIsRita Posts: 34
    The thing with diet coke is: If I'm craving something, I would rather drink one (zero calories) and take my time drinking it, instead of going crazy in the kitchen and binging!! so at the end of the day I would say that drinking diet sodas is better than snacking... but if you can snack without going over your daily calorie needs, thats great. I wish I could do it but once I start eating... oh my days.
  • LvlyLars
    LvlyLars Posts: 18 Member
    I don't know which side is true; I've probably read more articles against diet soda than for. Either way, I know how I was affected by it. I gave up soda last year on January 1...to see if I could drink more water and stop drinking diet coke (it was give or take for me; some days I would have one diet coke and other days I'd have 3 or 4 and then I'd have mixed drinks with them :) ). However, when I gave it up, I had no idea how addicted to it I was! It took months for me to get over the cravings; my body was seriously addicted to it and I know I don't want something in my body that makes me feel that way. I gave up cheese this year to see if I could do it because my big weakness foods are pizza and mac n cheese so I'm getting rid of the common factor to cut down on the crap. I probably won't go longer than a year without it. But I know I'll never go back to the diet coke again after the realization of how my body reacted to giving it up.
  • MinimalistShoeAddict
    MinimalistShoeAddict Posts: 1,946 Member
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  • lwagnitz
    lwagnitz Posts: 1,321 Member
    Just because it doesn't relate to "spikes in hunger" doesn't necessarily mean it's not bad for you.
  • littlebutnice
    littlebutnice Posts: 83 Member
    yay i love diet drinks!
  • Sunny_fit4life
    Sunny_fit4life Posts: 157 Member
    You can find a study to support almost any view, good or bad.

    Truth.

    Also, I feel undeniably better not drinking it. That's study enough for me.
  • Cre8veLifeR
    Cre8veLifeR Posts: 1,062 Member
    Diet Coke is pretty good with rum or bourbon. I've never tried it with both.

    LOL! Have you tried vanilla diet coke with rum? Yummy!
  • col443
    col443 Posts: 17
    This is why I just stopped reading studies and the latest information. Most of these people don't really know what is good and what is bad. Butter is a great example of that. It is good, no it is bad, wait now it is good again. I will drink my daily can of diet pepsi and enjoy it. Everything in moderation.
  • baptiste565
    baptiste565 Posts: 590 Member
    there is nothing wrong with artificial sweeteners. its been proven over and over, but some people refuse 2 believe. but some people do have problems with allergies with it
  • ATT949
    ATT949 Posts: 1,245 Member
    Is it bad that I was SUPER happy reading this??? http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/02/20/diet-pop-not-linked-to-spike-in-hunger-cravings-among-overweight-cohort-u-s-study/

    When I started losing weight, i stopped drinking Coke Zero. Looking back, there was no particular reason. Best I can figure out, it was a form of penance (a friend once looked at what I was eating and said that I was more devoted than a monk so maybe there was something to the pennance idea…).

    Insofar as soda being "bad" for you… Ugh.

    Any substance that's consumed by billions of people every day is going to have a negative impact on a non-zero percentage of those people. In contrast, the idea that "soda is bad for you" is a race to the bottom because you end up defining what "bad" is.

    As best I can tell, in "normal" amounts, diet soda has no negative impact on most people. What we can do is look at studies and case histories and, since soda is being consumed by billions of people, every day, for decades on end with no measurable negative impact, it's a heck of a stretch to say that soda is "bad" for you.
  • suv_hater
    suv_hater Posts: 374 Member
    Why is diet soda being discussed on a food and nutrition forum? It is neither and shouldn't belong here.

    I'm glad you found an article to justify your addiction to diet soda. Enjoy.
  • Rose_bee
    Rose_bee Posts: 226 Member
    What I find most important in this single (unnamed/unreferenced) study is that the people who switched to drinking water ended up eating more fruits & vegetables.
  • 1223345
    1223345 Posts: 1,386 Member
    Yes they are.
  • SlimSumday
    SlimSumday Posts: 379 Member
    If I couldn't have my Diet Coke I don't think I would get through the evening. I finish eating at 8 p.m. and count on the sweet wonderful taste of Diet Coke to satisfy me until bedtime. :drinker:
  • darwinwoodka
    darwinwoodka Posts: 322 Member
    Somethings gotta kill ya. I'm entitled to one vice.
  • jenns1964
    jenns1964 Posts: 384 Member
    Then you'll be really unhappy to read this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/research/diet-soft-drinks-linked-to-risk-of-heart-disease.html?_r=0
  • SlimSumday
    SlimSumday Posts: 379 Member
    The thing with diet coke is: If I'm craving something, I would rather drink one (zero calories) and take my time drinking it, instead of going crazy in the kitchen and binging!! so at the end of the day I would say that drinking diet sodas is better than snacking... but if you can snack without going over your daily calorie needs, thats great. I wish I could do it but once I start eating... oh my days.
    Yup. This is me too. :drinker:
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Diet Coke and Cuervo Gold !
  • MyNameIsRita
    MyNameIsRita Posts: 34
    Why is diet soda being discussed on a food and nutrition forum? It is neither and shouldn't belong here.

    I'm glad you found an article to justify your addiction to diet soda. Enjoy.

    Thanks, no need to be rude. And also, who told you I was addicted to diet soda? I never said that, lol. Why shouldnt it be discussed on a nutrition forum? Just read the article and everything else it mentions.

    Anyways just thought I would share, because I've read million of articles about the dangers of diet sodas... this is the first one of the kind!!!
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    you guys know that mixing diet sodas with hard liquor eliminates all of these lolside effects of artificial sweeteners right?

    true story. read it on the interwebz mahself.
  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    Why is diet soda being discussed on a food and nutrition forum? It is neither and shouldn't belong here.

    I'm glad you found an article to justify your addiction to diet soda. Enjoy.

    There is nothing wrong with enjoying diet pops or regular pops from time to time.
  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    Yes they are.

    Nope!
  • Jayne19099
    Jayne19099 Posts: 149 Member
    Um, aspartame? Just because it doesn't make you fat doesn't mean it's not bad for you....
  • wnbrice
    wnbrice Posts: 244 Member
    Diet Soda is firmly in the "Not sure if bad for you camp, but it sure as hell isnt positive"
  • RunnerElizabeth
    RunnerElizabeth Posts: 1,091 Member
    I can't wrap my head around any of this. I know regular soda isn't ok, except for in the case of a migraine. I can't imagine diet soda would be okay. How can it not have any calories? It's not water. It is something, how can something be nothing? And rum? I can't imagine drinking that either. Craziness!

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