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

Coke Zero isn't bad, although I really gave up soda altogether with the exception of an occasional Diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I cannot have anything with caffeine anymore as it will keep me up for 19 or 20 straight hours. I'll say Sprite Zero is disgusting.

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if other diet drinks make you feel sick, I don't see how coke zero would be any different. I can't drink diet drinks because they and anything else containing aspartame make me feel sick and give me other digestive problems (i.e. aspartame intolerance). I used to be okay with diet drinks where they used saccharine, but everything contains aspartame these days. Coke zero is just diet coke marketed at men.

I switched to Coke Zero after my nutritionist suggested it. (Yeah go figure!) It's a bit sweeter than diet Coke, but I realized that all sodas with artificial sugar in it is totally bad. I would drink at least 2 Caffeine Free Cokes at work so that's like 8 a week, but mainly I would drink water behind it to flush out my kidneys. There is no win/win when it comes to the battle of the caffeine. I just say drink mineral water or tea. Starting next week, I will be switching from sodas to tea

I have my occasional juice (spinach, apple, peaches) on the weekends.

I don't understand the question

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?

Took me a while, but I kicked the habit. When I was drinking them I preferred Coke Zero over Diet Coke. I took a sip of one the other day, and couldn't imagine why for the life of me that I used to think it tasted good. I had to drink a bunch of water just to get the taste out of my mouth. Yuck!

Basically I feel like most sodas are just plain bad for you (diet or not), and that is why I quit drinking them. With that said, if you like them and they help you ... enjoy, I won't judge you for it. I will say that when I drank Coke Zero, I craved other foods to go with it. I found that I would binge on salty crunchy things ... like chips and salted nuts. Not a serving size but a large bag probably in the 20 serving category. I quit the sodas ... waalaa cravings reduced (I don't think they will ever go completely away, but reduced can be dealt with).

I'm not going to get all preachy, because I have absolutely indulged in sodas in the past. However, both are extremely harmful to your health, due to the artificial sweeteners. If I ever do have a soda, it's regular, but that's bad too, because of the loads of processed sugars and acids in it. Best to stay away from sodas altogether if possible.
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I would have to agree with the above. Honestly once you wean off of sodas [artificially sweetened or not] you should realize that you are not missing anything but harmful and questionable ingredients. From what I understand, it is the carbonation that makes the soda. So that is why I prefer club soda with lime. Think of what soda of any kind would taste like without fizz.; really really bad.

I thought the whole point of coke zero was that it tasted like normal coke without all the sugar.

which is why their is a weird advert going around where they gave them coke zero instead of normal coke and noone 'told the difference'

my brother - law- used to drink 2litres of diet cola a day, A DAY! everyone would tell him diet's better than the regular soda so he never thought anything of it. i saw him back in 2008 and i begged him to stop drinking it altogether as his family has a serious history of diabetes and he didn't listen. i went to visit him last april and found out he has diabetes and the doctor told him he's excessive binge drinking of the diet soda contributed 90% to his diagnosis.

now this won't be the case for most but some have the impression that 'diet' and 'zero' sodas are good or better for you than the regulars but like everyone here has been saying these soda are harmful to the body regardless of the label.

for me personally i won't lie i used to drink just the regulars once or twice a week until i started noticing how much it aggravated my stomach to the point of needing medication, i can tell you a build up of stomach acid is pain like no other and a friend of mine was given the same diagnosis, so i've learnt to explore the squash's and the smoothies because i've found my body appreciates the goodness its getting from it.

I know that Coke Zero has aspartame and phosphoric acid. I won't drink it for those 2 reasons. The first was proven to cause cancers in rats and makes it tricky to cut weight, the second can dissolve a nail in 4 days.

yeah i read the same thing. horrifying facts and to think how many millions of people drink these sodas is truly astonishing!

I find all soda equally disgusting. Rarely, I get a craving for cherry coke, or cheerwine, but after the first couple of sips, I remember why I stopped drinking it in the first place.

Sugar Free Irn Bru is where it's at. It's so good I don't even care if it's bad for me!

Luckily I've never had a big problem with overindulging on soda because it makes me burp a lot, and I hate carbonated anything pretty much. When I was a kid I used to open a can of soda and then leave it in the fridge overnight so I could drink it the next day flat, haha.

It was bad when I could get unlimited free Dr. Pepper and Orange Fanta at my crappy restaurant job last summer, but generally if I drink a big soda I just feel bloated and crappy, so it's easier to abstain. But I was brought up on Diet Coke and I'll always prefer it to the original. Do I kid myself that it's "healthier"? No, but I do like to enjoy a diet soda now and then, because it doesn't affect my calorie goals and as long as you're not drinking it daily I don't think the chemicals add up to much in your system.

I also think the hype over Splenda and Equal is a bit out of proportion too. Lots of chemicals are in just about everything these days, and somehow we're not all dropping dead from ingesting them occasionally.