Diet Soda Opinions?

Yeah it has caused cancer, brain tumors, holes in the brain and all sorts of other disease in rats at like 500 times the normal amount consumed by humans.

Broccoli and grapes are toxic to dogs. Better avoid those, too.

I love MFP, where a simple request for opinions turns into a full blown argument, every time. People suck.

It's because people are rude

I kind of find it amusing lol. Some threads get hilarious. Makes me want to get the popcorn, but I don't want to go over my calories for the day.

i'm no expert, but i drink diet drinks just about every day. usually twice. i did it before i lost 60 lbs and i still do it today. i did it when i was at 38% body fat, and i still do it at 17% body fat.

Same for me. My ups and downs have never been helped or harmed by my diet soda intake either way. They can pry my Diet Dr. Pepper from my cold dead hands.

A recent compilation of evidence from one of the large, long-term nutritional studies shows a 16% increase in stroke risk for people with a one-a-day soda habit.....doesn't matter if it's regular or diet. I'll stick with my water, coffee, and green tea!

Would love to see a link to this study please...... thank you

This comes from Dr. Ann Kulze's newsetter...she does sell her books on her site, but she references peer-reviewed materials like The Journal of Clinical Nutrition and similar sources. So, while it is TRUE that correlation DOES NOT equal cause-and-effect, in most of life's endeavors I've tried to copy people who've successfully reached the place I'm headed....and I think I'd rather copy the people who didn't have a stroke Her website is dranewellness.com---do peruse it and decide for yourself.

To each his own. If you don't want to drink diet soda, then don't! As for myself, and others I know, they still drink it and are still losing weight. Unless you're a certified medical specialist and you have run numerous controlled tests on those people who may or may not have consumed diet sodas for a given period of time the I honestly think that most of you need to stop telling others that this one thing is the whole reason they're sabotaging what they are working so hard to achieve.

Just because something seems to be working for you (the ones always so quick to tell he/she that if she did that/that, then the weight would start coming off again, eventually),

IMO you all just need to give people several different plans/ideas to try instead of the plan that worked for you.

REMEMBER: Not everything works for everyone! Just because someone tells you to do something because it worked for them, it will more than likely not work for you. (i.e. gender, height, weight, activity level, diet.)

Sooo, I have started this kick on Diet Pepsi, that i really need to knock.
However, So many people keep telling me that the diet soda can actually make me gain weight...

any advice???

Zero calories won't make you fat. But the artificial sweeteners and other chemicals is bad. Drink lots of water instead. It keeps you hydrated thus making you burn fat more effectively. Besides nothing beats the real thing..

love love love Fresca and coke zero! if I have to choose pop I go for those. i'm not a huge Pepsi product fan. but I also love nestle Nesttea zero. same taste without the cals!

Stop drinking diet soda! It's complete garbage in my opinion. If you really want to lose weight, stick to drinking water and ditch the soda, believe me, you will be thankful once you realize how much of a difference it makes. Good luck!!

Sooo, I have started this kick on Diet Pepsi, that i really need to knock.
However, So many people keep telling me that the diet soda can actually make me gain weight...

any advice???

Many people are wrong. The BS that they are stating is from articles with speculation and no actual scientific study to back it.

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I scanned the other comments and only saw a couple of people mention the artificial sweeteners. Do you know how insanely bad and dangerous aspartame, sucralose, splenda, sweet n low, etc. is for you?? It has been proven to cause cancer, brain tumors, holes in the brain and all sorts of other diseases. Please just give it up. There is nothing at all that your body needs in soda. Water, water, water.

Really? Where are the dead bodies from it then? You've been scare mongered into believing the BS. If it's proven, please link a PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC STUDY on it cause I'd love to read it. Not an article, a blog, or a paper on theory, but actual scientific study proving it causes the maladies you stated above.

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Ahh yes, there were some large bottles of soda at the dinner party I went to last night and I bypassed them with total ease and asked for water instead. If you give up drinking soda it will get easier for you as well. You can't benefit a single thing from drinking diet soda, or any other soda for that matter.

You benefit from not eating high calorie sweets because you got your fix from diet soda. That's one.

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I don't care if you believe me or not. All you have to do is google it. I'm not doing your research for you. It's an extremely dangerous carcinogen. My cardio thoracic surgeon father never allowed us to have it and I don't allow my daughters to have it. Don't be so naive to think that everything on the market is okay for you.

It's not about you "doing our research for us," it's about backing up your claims when you make them. If you can't prove it, then nobody is going to care what you're blabbing about. Have you ever been in school? You have to back up what you say with sources, and good ones at that.

Whoa, First off I'm not "blabbing". These are facts, look them up. Read. I posted a few websites, you are welcome to check them out. Secondly, I don't care if you believe what I am saying is true. I believe the title of this thread was "Diet soda opinions". That was my opinion. I'm not here to post every website google brings up. Go ahead and check them out, maybe you will learn something. Stop trying to be insulting.

Facts are actually provable. They are proven through actual independent study with peer review. Correlations and anecdotes aren't evidence, which every link you provided are full of.

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Soda is one of the worst drinks. The amount of sugar in it is disgusting and it messes up your teeth and messes up your insides horribly.

Soda is one of the worst drinks. The amount of sugar in it is disgusting and it messes up your teeth and messes up your insides horribly.

Well no. It can mess up your teeth if you oral hygiene sucks. And it doesn't mess up your insides since every carb is broken down into glycogen by the end of digestion. Sugar from fruit or a soda is broken down the same way.

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I drink coffee, coffee is my weakness but I limit myself to 2 cups a day MAX, anyway as for soda or fizzy drinks, I ask you this.......Were you born with it, does your body need it, no. So try to cut down. I think I drink soda like once a month and it's enough to tide me over same goes with fruit juices. :-)