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    My Stupid Question of the Day: Diet Coke or Orange Juice?

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    • Posts: 1,792 Member
      I personally would be more concerned about the sugar calories in the orange juice than the sweetener in the diet coke...but that's me.
    • Posts: 106 Member
      I tend to go for lime cordial and soda water/water

      Fin x
    • Posts: 956 Member
      OP - if you are limiting yourself to only these two options, I'd go for diet coke. But have you considered Tomato Juice or sparkling water as options, or diet 7-up /sprite?
    • Posts: 40 Member
      Look up how orange juice is made (even the 100% stuff that is supposed to be healthy and good for you) with the removal of oxygen and addition of flavor packs. That should help you make your mind up right there.

      If you like OJ and want to continue drinking it, do not look up how it's made. I used to LOVE the stuff until I found out the truths behind the lies. :/
    • Posts: 220 Member
      Dang it! And there was me hoping to get a nice and simple answer. But I do appreciate all the feedback. I guess there's no right or wrong answer.
    • Posts: 30 Member
      Personally I'd go with the diet coke. Both it and the orange juice will cause an insulin spike but at least with the diet coke you're not getting any calories. Personally I'd see if I could order coffee instead.
    • Posts: 866 Member
      Diet Coke is the nectar of the Gods. I love it so much.
    • Posts: 1,543 Member
      Why do people ask...."Why is water not an option?"

      It's ALWAYS an option, variety is the spice of life however...he never asked which was better, Diet, Orange, or Water.

      If you take a test the answer between A,B,C,D isn't E....
    • Posts: 1
      Simple stay clear of diet drinks that contain Aspertame, if you value yor body. Do some reasearch on Aspertame. I used to ache all the time, get headaches and several other issues. I stopped having anything with Aspertame in and within a week a majority of the ailments had gone and after a couple of months all have gone.
    • Posts: 238
      Just drink whatever you want! If you feel happy with it, then go for it!!
    • Posts: 106 Member
      Simple stay clear of diet drinks that contain Aspertame, if you value yor body. Do some reasearch on Aspertame. I used to ache all the time, get headaches and several other issues. I stopped having anything with Aspertame in and within a week a majority of the ailments had gone and after a couple of months all have gone.

      My partner just recently stopped drinking diet drinks. It scared me how much he drank because he never and i mean NEVER drank any water at all. He started to balance it out with the odd bottle and now he's drinking it constantly. The other week he had one diet orange drink and the reaction was unreal, headache, sick, dizzy, knocked him out. People get used to them in their system but honestly doing without it makes a huge change. Not that he had major issues but my son did mention that before giving up the pop he had dark rings around his eyes and even i can see the difference in his skin now. Each to their own though and if it's ok with you thats different but i see a complete change in him now and even he said he's reluctant to try pop after the last reaction he had. I'd advise anyone to try upping the water for a week and have one day without pop by the end of it and see how it feels.

      http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

      Fin x
    • Posts: 1,204 Member
      If it's one meal out, on one day and your diet is otherwise balanced and healthy I don't suppose it matters.
      Personally I'd go for the diet coke because I don't like fruit juices & I would always go for the least calories/sugar where possible. (I don't drink it often, only when I eat out, so the aspartame issue isn't a worry to me.)
    • Posts: 30
      Orange juice is good, in moderation, maybe one glass a day is enough
    • Posts: 1,572 Member
      I know what you mean about water. I drink HEAPS during the day so when I go out I want something different. I would personally go the diet coke as I am not so concerned about the fake sugar (we are all going to die of something eventually, right?). Juice is fine but I usually have my juice for breakfast time so if you are going out for breakfast go the juice.
    • Posts: 1,093 Member
      Water.

      But if you have to choose I say orange juice, at least it has some nutrients. Unless it isn't fresh and has added sugar, in this case, go fot good old H2O.
    • Posts: 541 Member
      I get unsweetened iced tea with lemon or diet ginger ale
    • Posts: 92 Member
      I would always choose juice over carbonated drinks anyday... Less chemicals.

      In saying that, only if they offer fresh squeezed. If they do not... I am quite happy with water with fresh lemon :P
    • Posts: 12,344 Member
      i would go with whichever you are wanting more. i still drink 2-3 cans of mt dew a day and its not hurting me with my goals. nothing wrong with treating yourself every now and then. but then i would also get a glass of water

      How the heck are you drinking that much and staying under your calorie goal? I pretty much had to give it up to stay under my calorie goals!
    • Posts: 822 Member
      neither!!
    • Posts: 44 Member
      I agree with this statement. Unless you juice your own oranges oj really has nothing in co.mmon with nutrition
    • Posts: 3,596 Member
      show previous quotes

      Who cares. It's semantics. No one can argue that fact that diet coke is gross.
      There's a big difference between semantics and misinformation. Diet coke categorically does not have the same amount of sugar in it as fruit juice. That's ridiculous. Also, "gross" is a matter of personal taste.

      While orange juice has more nutrients, if I was faced with having to choose between the two, I'd get a diet coke. I find pure orange juice very sweet and prefer to drink it watered down somewhat. If I had to make the choice on a daily basis, some days I'd probably get the juice. Having said all that, unless there's alcohol in the coke, I'd probably rather just drink water.
    • Posts: 220 Member
      Why do people ask...."Why is water not an option?" It's ALWAYS an option, variety is the spice of life however...he never asked which was better, Diet, Orange, or Water. If you take a test the answer between A,B,C,D isn't E....
      lol :D
    • Posts: 4 Member
      I'm afraid you're just wrong.
    • Posts: 4 Member
      1 glass of Orange Juice has 26g of carbohydrates, 21g of which is sugar. Drinking 21g of sugar is simply not healthy. It is arguably less healthy than drinking a diet coke, which has zero sugar.
      Additionally the diet coke (assuming it's not caffeine free) has caffeine, which is very nearly a miracle compound. Some of its benefits include:
      Regular coffee drinkers were 80 percent less likely to develop Parkinson's disease.
      Two cups a day reduced subjects' risk for colon cancer by 20 percent.
      Two cups a day caused an 80 percent drop in the odds of developing cirrhosis.
      Two cups a day cut the risk of developing gallstones in half
      The insane amounts of sugar concentrated in a glass of orange juice are not offset by the Vitamin C you get from it -- the only real nutritional thing in there. There's only .5g of fiber in a glass and that's negligible.
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