Diet Soda correlation to wt gain, diabetes, etc...

FEARMONGER

Can someone tell me how you can stop drinking a caffeinated beverage.

Get headaches associated with caffeine withdrawal.

Say it can't be withdrawal from caffeine as caffeine intake is the same. Even though you've just said you've stopped drinking a caffeinated beverage?

Because I drink coffee?

Do I need to post my qualifications to have a valid opinion too? let's face it folks we are talking about opinion not fact and that goes for both sides.

Actually, there is over 4 times as much caffeine per flow ounce of coffee as diet coke. I would say it is much more likely that by increasing your coffee consumption, you gave yourself a headache for 3 days from ODing on caffeine until your body readjusted. But hey, keep fooling yourself that you are the magic-one-man-prove-all of science.

I gave up diet sodas and artificial sweetners in February after a 30 year habit. I drank a cupof coffee a day for a month so I didn't go through caffeine withdrawl. I switched to iced tea and stevia for my sweetner. After the first 2 weeks of everday massive headaches stopped I found that my daily sweet cravings had stopped also, My average 3 to 4 headaches a week stopped. I have lost 10 lbs without even changing my eating habits or exercising (I never was of the attitude that if I drank diet soda, I could eat a Big Mac). This was the easiest weight I have lost (other than childbirth). I'm a beliver in the study only because it reafirms what has happened to me. Everybody is different and food affects them differently. If I ate the way my husband eats, I would have weighed over 400 lbs. He has kept his weight within 15 lbs of the weight he graduated High School almost 40 yrs ago.

Thanks for this topic!!! My SIL keeps telling me that I should quit diet pepsi because of the chemicals in it.......I said 1-2 cans a day will not do anything to me. Now I know many others who agree!

The source of the article is "Natural News", not a medical journal.

The article does not state how much aspartame the rats were given, nor does it compare it to X number of ounces of Diet Coke. How would you even know how much is too much? Real studies provide numbers, not just fearmongering.

This is why you need to do your research, folks. You can't believe everything you read.

Actually, there is over 4 times as much caffeine per flow ounce of coffee as diet coke. I would say it is much more likely that by increasing your coffee consumption, you gave yourself a headache for 3 days from ODing on caffeine until your body readjusted. But hey, keep fooling yourself that you are the magic-one-man-prove-all of science.

actually I increased my caffine consumption...by increasing my coffee consumption. I have it logged if you'd like the numbers. Are you sure you know how to read though? I never said I was proving anything, I never said anything about your 'magic-one-prove-all of science'. I just said what I experienced. Take it or leave it.

Not to get in the middle or anything...but...she said the increased caffeine consumption could have caused the headaches.

look start fresh...

I personally stopped drinking diet coke because of the studies I read (from scholarly journals that I have access to via university).

They were not conclusive studies, but I personally decided to see if it made a difference to me...because drinking water instead of soda logically isn't an unhealthy choice.

To wean myself off the caffine I increased my coffee consumption to match my usual caffine consumption (I dont take sugar in my coffee) I didnt swap my diet coke for coffee.

I still got a headache.

Ive gone without diet coke before and had headaches...but I always thought it was the caffine. The changes I made this time made me think it was something else. It could have been chance as someone else mentioned.

Its not a science of one, it was just my experience. Drink whatever you like. Personally Im enjoying the water and Im glad I switched.

mmmmmmm A&W diet cream soda (drool puddle)

mmmmmmm A&W diet cream soda (drool puddle)

Despite the "research", I simply can't and won't give up my Diet Coke. To concur with another writer, I have given up so much, I simply don't want to give up the one thing that has zero calories and I enjoy. I still drink plenty of water and have 2 cups of green tea everyday. I am willing to take my chances and keep the "bad" habit" of drinking my Diet Coke.

First weigh in on Friday, 8/3. You all have me motivated to stick with things!!!! Thanks.