What's everyone's thought on coke zero etc.

melindasuefritz

all diet drinks have fake sugar that is no good for u

dad106

I was never really a soda drinker to begin with, but I enjoy Pepsi Next.

It has 60 calories and only 15 grams of sugar.. and no aspartame. Just Splenda, Sugar and one more sweetener.

I find it doesn't give off that funky after taste that other diet pops have, and is pretty darn close to the real thing.

melindasuefritz

Researchers have linked drinking diet soda with:

Weight gain

Diet soda drinking correlates with both increased waist circumference and a heightened body mass index. What's up? One possible explanation is that diet soda disrupts our ability to feel full. Scientists have found that, at least in rats, having something artificially sweetened before a meal leads to greater food consumption at chow time. In general, sweet tasting foods and drinks appear to increase our appetite.

jogglesngoggles

My thought>>> there is no soda that is good for you! My personal opinion, IF you must have a soda, have a real soda..none of this diet or zero stuff. They have to add chemicals to take away the sugar/carbs/calories! If I have to have a soda bad enough, I suck it up that I have to count those calories/sugar, it's the better option to having weird chemicals in your body!!

ginamc04

Never drink any diet soda (or any soda for that matter) Aspartame should not be consumed. Drink water with lemon, seltzer water if you like the carbonation.

melindasuefritz

Kidney problems

Julie Lin, M.D., a kidney specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, studied the soda habits and kidney health of more than 3,000 women for 11 years.

“What we observed,” Dr. Lin says, “was an association between drinking two or more servings of diet soda per day and faster kidney function decline.” In fact, the kidneys of diet soda drinkers declined at three times the rate typical of aging.

You don't want to mess with your kidneys, notes Lin. “They're really one of the most important organs for keeping our whole body in balance in terms of processing the waste that the body generates just from our daily food intake,” she says. Even just moderate kidney decline goes hand-in-hand with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease.


Read more: http://www.youbeauty.com/nutrition/ditch-diet-soda#ixzz2R3cZ0hHx

melindasuefritz

Increased diabetes risk

“If you're a consumer of diet soda, you have a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome than a non-consumer,” says Lyn Steffen, Ph.D., R.D, a professor in the division of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota.

Here’s why that’s bad news: Metabolic syndrome involves a deadly combination of abdominal obesity, elevated blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol, high triglycerides (fatty acid derivatives linked to heart disease and stroke) and elevated glucose (high blood sugar)—all of which increases the risk of diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke.

Steffen studied thousands of people over nine years. At the end of the study, she looked at the study subjects’ diets and whether they had developed metabolic syndrome. She found that the greatest predictors of someone getting the syndrome were those who consumed meat-heavy diets, fried foods and diet soda. Other researchers have linked diet soda drinkers with a 67 percent greater risk of developing full-fledged type 2 diabetes.


Read more: http://www.youbeauty.com/nutrition/ditch-diet-soda#ixzz2R3cgkIxy

melindasuefritz

Stroke

A January 2012 study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that people who guzzle diet soda daily have a 43 percent higher risk of vascular events—such as stroke and heart attack—than people who don't drink diet soft drinks. However, light diet soda drinkers—those who sipped diet soft drinks somewhere between once a month and six a week—were not more likely to suffer vascular events.

So what can you do if you're truly hooked on diet soda? While drinking water is the best way to quench your thirst, the truth is, that doesn’t always make for the most appetizing replacement. “For most people,” says Sporny, “the weight of water isn’t great enough to make it appealing to them. When fluid becomes a bit heavier, it's more palatable.”

That's why both Sporny and Lin recommend seltzer water as your swap of choice. Carbonation is a naturally calorie-free way of putting some extra oomph in your glass. If you still want some sweetness to your drink, mix a bit of fruit juice with your seltzer and sip away.


Read more: http://www.youbeauty.com/nutrition/ditch-diet-soda#ixzz2R3coekYD

Carnivor0us

Researchers have linked drinking diet soda with:

Weight gain

Diet soda drinking correlates with both increased waist circumference and a heightened body mass index. What's up? One possible explanation is that diet soda disrupts our ability to feel full. Scientists have found that, at least in rats, having something artificially sweetened before a meal leads to greater food consumption at chow time. In general, sweet tasting foods and drinks appear to increase our appetite.

Or, it could be that overweight people drink more diet beverages because they've gained weight previously by drinking sugar-laden regular beverages. That's likely the real explanation. Correlation isn't causation.

seanezekiel

I drink diet pop by the dozen. I don't fear aspartame. Ive been drinking it for 20 years, daily. It def has not effected my weight loss.

Contrarian

If you aren't going to drink diet soda, why are you asking? Coke Zero is diet soda.

Crochetluvr

The only diet soda I can stomach is diet ginger ale. Diet colas just taste blech to me.

Saffyra

I like coke zero. Diet Dr pepper is good too.

What are you getting at here? Drinking it strait up, or mixed in with rum?

Mmmm...sprite zero with coconut rum is amazing too..

I must try this!

Coke zero is delicious. I especially like cherry coke zero.

Also, as far as I know, no studies have conclusively shown that diet soda itself is bad for you. Since its never studied separate from eating habits...

whierd

Coke zero is delicious. That's my thought. And the Anti-aspertame Crusaders are odd and fanatical.

LoveAlwaysAlisa

I personally LOVE IT...better than diet coke ...I HATE diet coke...blah:noway:

sally_jeffswife

I like Coke Zero...it doesn't have that funny taste it tastes like a regular coke but is healthier. I have gotten to really like the Fuze Diet Lemon Ice Teas too in the can, or the Snapple Diet Green Tea singles, or Mio Water I love.

seanezekiel

Water VS Coke.

WATER
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.

2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.

3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 30%.

4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.

8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

And now for the properties of COKE

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the “real thing” sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

For Your Info
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!

Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or coke?

Actually sode hydrates you just like water. So most of your top points support the drinking of soda. Don't believe me. Search it up at the mayo clinic. The rest of the garbage in coke is like you said, Butthe hydration thing is a myth. It does it perfectly.

Brownsbacker4evr

Diet drinks are a cop-out! I say drink your damn water! I used to drink soda (a bunch of it) daily. Dropped it to start getting back into healthy shape. Of all things to completely cut, soda was the easiest. Diet or Regular. Avoid both. Drink water.You'll get used to it and you'll be glad you did.