Diet Soda May Do More Harm Than Good

I'm a pack a day smoker. I don't really have room to lecture people on how bad aspartame is.

Rehash... This was really popular like 3 weeks ago, I thought they got all of the aspartame fight stuff out of their system?

Correlation isn't causation.

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Sure, it would be best, ideally, to cut out all soda. But some people just don't want to do that. And if you're tracking calories, the whole "causes you to overeat thing" is kind of a moot point.

Personal experience:
I drink diet soda, usually 1-2 cans a day max. A couple of weeks ago, I was at a bbq, and there was no diet, only throwback (sweetened with sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup). I decided, what the heck, it won't taste so very awful as the HFCS stuff does (ugh, that garbage is nasty) and over the course of several hours, I consumed to cans. Twenty-four ounces. 80 g sugar :noway: (Yes, it's 40 g per can of throwback Pepsi :noway: :noway: ) I felt okay at first, but as I finished the second can, I started seriously feeling buzzed - that's the only way I could describe it. Like maybe my system was going "eek, too much sugar, what do I do" And then a few hours later I had a serious blood sugar crash (okay, I didn't test by blood sugar - I don't have any medical conditions requiring me to track - but if felt like a bad crash, shaky and nauseated as if I hadn't eaten for a long time). I have never ever had that from diet soda. Ever. I have rarely had any sort of similar reactions to eating candy, cookies, or other sugary treats (but I doubt I consume 80 g of sugar like that from my treats).

So, for me, the answer is, the sugar is far worse. But, of course, that's just my experience. I'll stick with my couple cans a day or less.

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I thought numerous scientific studies had concluded that Aspartame didn't pose a risk of cancer/other conditions above or beyond any other sweetner or high levels of refined sugar? Lots of the studies I've looked at give a suggestion that it was a propaganda thing by people who hated Monsanto, (and there's a lot of them!)

Of course, the studies could have been sponsored by Monsanto...

I'd like to see the actual studies, rather than just the "conclusions." Most of the human studies that I have seen are correctional. People who drink diet soda are heavier than people who don't. But that doesn't mean it causes it. It could be the opposite. People who are heavy tend to gravitate to diet soda rather than high calorie beverages. But then they go ahead and eat their big macs.

I drink 4-5 a day and it hasn't seemed to hinder my weight loss. I'm not diabetic either.

I've heard its not the diet soda itself, but the artificial sweetener makes you crave more sugar and carbs. So you may think you are doing good by the no calorie drink, but can't resist the piece of cake and ice cream. Who knows? I do think its hilarious that people *even me at times in past* will order a supersized meal with a diet soda.

Ah...here we go on yet another diet soda psot. I hope this thread won't explode...Peace!

because quite simply other people maybe haven't heard.. if you know of it and can't be bothered there's no need for sarcasm or rudeness..

as for me.. i heard of this a year ago, it doesn't just apply to diet drinks full fat ( don't know why they call it full fat as there's no fat in them) however, these drinks can and do dehydrate you and cause black outs. so don't drink them on a daily basis, drink water, juice tea etc instead, leave the "sodas'' for a treat now and then

(thread title is the same as the article title)

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/10/diet-soda-may-do-more-harm-than-good/?hpt=hp_c3

This is also all over my local news. Thoughts?

When I go out, I drink vodka and diet coke or diet pepsi. I find regular coke or pepsi too sweet, whereas I do not find that with diet stuff.

I ensure I eat properly and all the correct nutritients, therefore, when I do go out (which may be once per week), my body is not interested in which nutrients it can get from the soda because it already has them from the grub.

The way the researchers are going on in the article ie "But when your body doesn't get the things it expects to get, it becomes confused on how to respond." - I don't go with this at all - the body expects nothing, it just does its job and digests the soda, when it finds no nutrients there, it does not get confused, it just continues doing what it is supposed to be doing.

The researchers are giving the body a mind of its own away from the person - that is damn wrong and is a very dangerous way to think.