diet coke

How much is too much diet coke?? It pretty much has 0 in every category and 40mg of sodium. I have about a can a day.

I don't think a can a day will hurt anything but the sodium will suck you dry. I used to be a Diet Coke addict...no joke. I had one for breakfast, brunch, lunch, snack, dinner, after dinner. Really, it was bad. I started buying water instead of soda and honestly...I don't miss them...I haven't had a diet coke in almost 2 months. I feel better, my body feels looser (not the swelling that all that sodium will give you) and I feel good that I am not taking in all that aspartame.

Again, I think 1 a day is ok...I just wouldn't go beyond that...but then I would be aiming toward eliminating them from my diet altogether.

Good luck!

I drink 4 glasses of water per diet coke I have. I have a 2 can per day max though.
I figure one for lunch and one for dinner. As long as I have at least eight glasses of water.

It has just about zero everythig... EXCEPT ASPARTAME.
I would check into this artificial sweetener before I ingested it on a regular basis.

the only thing about diet coke is it uses either aspartame or splenda. other than that i drink the fire out of it!

I might have a diet pepsi every other day or so. I mostly stick to the water. Have you tried putting the crystal light into your water? It is great to get away from the plain water but still have your water intake.

I now drink Hansen diet soda, all natural uses sugar cane instead of Aspartame in it. Zero calories and is fun to drink.

OMG I practically forgot these exist!!! I used to ocassionally drink the regular Hansen sodas in HS. Now I'm going to find them again to have a "healthier" soda!

I don't know if things are different in the UK, but diet coke DOES have calories, a can has 4. Not many i admnit, but I suppose I would rather the people that enter the figures do it honestly. Unless we have a different recipe here

Diet Coke here has 0 in all nutritional categories, except for 40mg of sodium, in the US.

The data is coming out that diet soda intake correlates with kidney trouble. Kidneys are extremelly important. Not only do kidneys filter the blood for poisons, they also produce a chemical reaction that signals our stem red cells to make new red blood cells. Bad kidneys can cause anemia, which in turn can cause you not to perform well. Also, I read somewhere that when kidneys don't function properly, the liver takes up some of the slack. This diverts the liver from processing fats, which may keep us fatter.

So, based on this, I gave up all diet sodas last November when the below study came out. I drink water with a splash of juice (cranberry, lemon, or orange). I don't miss the diet sodas, and I was one addicted chick.



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Diet Soda, Sodium Tied to Kidney Trouble: Studies


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MONDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A diet high in salt or artificially sweetened drinks increases the risk of kidney function decline, two studies show.

"There are currently limited data on the role of diet in kidney disease," researcher Dr. Julie Lin, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said in a news release. "While more study is needed, our research suggests that higher sodium and artificially sweetened soda intake are associated with greater rate of decline in kidney function."

The first study looked at diet and kidney function decline in more than 3,000 women enrolled in the national Nurses' Health Study. The researchers found that "in women with well-preserved kidney function, higher dietary sodium intake was associated with greater kidney function decline, which is consistent with experimental animal data that high sodium intake promotes progressive kidney disease."

The second study looked at the association between sugar- and artificially-sweetened beverages and kidney function decline in the same group of women. The researchers found an association between two or more servings per day of artificially sweetened soda and a two-fold increased risk of faster kidney function decline. There was no connection between sugar-sweetened beverages and kidney function decline.

The association between artificially sweetened beverages and kidney function decline persisted after Lin and colleague Dr. Gary Curhan accounted for other factors, such as age, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, physical activity, caloric intake and cardiovascular disease.

Further study is needed to better understand how artificial sweeteners influence kidney function decline, the researchers said.

The studies were to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, in San Diego.

-- Robert Preidt

I don't know if things are different in the UK, but diet coke DOES have calories, a can has 4. Not many i admnit, but I suppose I would rather the people that enter the figures do it honestly. Unless we have a different recipe here

I believe here in the US, manufacturers aren't required to list calories if they're under 5 per serving. That's probably one of the reasons why the 20oz bottle contains 2.5 servings.

As far as the aspartame/splenda issue goes, sure it's probably not very good for you. It's been linked to not great things (though correlation doesn't mean causation and lab studies aren't always applicable to real life & all that good stuff). The counterargument here is that you can't live forever. We do and eat and drink and breathe all kinds of things that aren't the best healthiest for us. Why add to that, you ask? For quality of life, of course!

If you really enjoy diet coke, keep drinking your darn diet coke! If you want to try to do without it, try substituting plain carbonated water. I've had a lot of success with this. Now sodas are hardly appealing to me at all. I drink very little now. Especially relatively to what I was drinking before. I suck down carbonated water like a fish -- I love it! And it's just plain water.

I don't know if things are different in the UK, but diet coke DOES have calories, a can has 4. Not many i admnit, but I suppose I would rather the people that enter the figures do it honestly. Unless we have a different recipe here

I believe here in the US, manufacturers aren't required to list calories if they're under 5 per serving. That's probably one of the reasons why the 20oz bottle contains 2.5 servings.

As far as the aspartame/splenda issue goes, sure it's probably not very good for you. It's been linked to not great things (though correlation doesn't mean causation and lab studies aren't always applicable to real life & all that good stuff). The counterargument here is that you can't live forever. We do and eat and drink and breathe all kinds of things that aren't the best healthiest for us. Why add to that, you ask? For quality of life, of course!

If you really enjoy diet coke, keep drinking your darn diet coke! If you want to try to do without it, try substituting plain carbonated water. I've had a lot of success with this. Now sodas are hardly appealing to me at all. I drink very little now. Especially relatively to what I was drinking before. I suck down carbonated water like a fish -- I love it! And it's just plain water.

To further the argument, Diet Coke is not the only thing people consume that contains aspartame... Dannon Light & Fit Yogurt (a favorite of many of the members) - contains aspartame, Fiber One cereal (frequently suggested by many people on the boards) - contains aspartame, Crystal Light (many board members will tell you to drink this instead of Diet Coke) - contains aspartame, Sugar free Jell-O (many posters snack on this with Cool Whip) - contains aspartame... I think you get the picture.

There has been some very negative press regarding the evils of Diet Coke. Have you ever noticed it's always Diet Coke and not Diet Pepsi or Diet Sprite or Diet Dr. Pepper? The truth is, that unless you're consuming massive quantities of it you are very unlikely to develop side effects from it, unless you have PKU - a disease that makes you unable to process phenylalanine... but you most likely would have been diagnosed with this at birth.

Take all of the internet rumors about formaldehyde, and aspartame causing weight gain with a grain of salt.