Diet Soda Anyone?
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Why knowingly drink acid? Seriously? 99.9% of all foods are acidic. Oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits are all much stronger acids than diet soda. Yes, diet soda has been accused of causing lots of health problems. So have eggs, butter, milk, meat, bread, rice, apples, and pretty much every food, ever. The evidence shows diet soda doesn't cause any of the things you listed. Again, stop spreading fear and ignorance, take the time to actually study these things.Like so many things, it might not affect your weight loss in a week or a year, or even years but the toll it takes on your health otherwise is really not good. Diet soda has been accused of causing migraines, brain tumors, ulcers, rotted teeth, cancer, gut issues and leaching calcium out of the bones. Why knowingly drink acid? If someone flavors goat piss with enough fake sugar to make it palatable and put it over ice, it probably wouldn't cause weight gain either. But why?
I'm curious, when have apples been accused of doing damage to the body? (other than organic vs. non organic) And yes lemons and limes go in acid, but are turned alkaline in the body. Alkaline= good. Other than apples all of the other food you mentioned are acids.
Your stomach acid has a pH of 2. Nothing is turning alkaline in there.
The alkaline of your stomach varies actually. But where is this apple evidence?0 -
Citric Acid is a "weak" acid, meaning once it's done it's job in providing energy in metabolism it's eliminated easily via sweat and respiration. It is alkaline forming in that it stimulates the formation of calcium carbonate in the body. Calcium carbonate then neutralizes the "Strong" acids in the body, acids that can only be gotten rid of through urination, including uric acid which is the end result of protein metabolism. Lemons also have many alkaline minerals.0
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I drink it quiet a bit and have lost almost a total of 45lbs. If i find one that has stevia as the sweetener i'll start drinking that instead of the current nasty ones. =D
Whole Foods carry a wide variety of sodas with stevia0 -
Citric Acid is a "weak" acid, meaning once it's done it's job in providing energy in metabolism it's eliminated easily via sweat and respiration. It is alkaline forming in that it stimulates the formation of calcium carbonate in the body. Calcium carbonate then neutralizes the "Strong" acids in the body, acids that can only be gotten rid of through urination, including uric acid which is the end result of protein metabolism. Lemons also have many alkaline minerals.
Is the phosphoric acid in Coke good for you too? The big problem with acid in food isn't so much when it hits the stomach, which has real acid of its own, but while it's being swilled around the mouth. If you're drinking a bucket of weak acid every day your mouth hardly gets a chance to return to a neutral state and the teeth suffer.
The answer is "anything in moderation", even very healthy foods eaten to excess can have quite unpleasant side effects.0 -
After having gastric sleeve surgery I can't drink it. Do I miss it? Sometimes but not enough to make me buy some then wait for it to go flat so I can drink it. Still better than the gallons of mountain dew I drank before I sorted out my diet pre op.0
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Apples have a pH of 3.3, they are definitely acids. They are also good sources of arsenic and formaldehyde. As for lemons and limes turning Into alkalis, I've never seen any science about the human body changing the pH of food you eat. It doesn't need to, since stomach acid has a pH of 0-1, which is far lower than anything a person will eat or drink, including soda.
Why knowingly drink acid? Seriously? 99.9% of all foods are acidic. Oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits are all much stronger acids than diet soda. Yes, diet soda has been accused of causing lots of health problems. So have eggs, butter, milk, meat, bread, rice, apples, and pretty much every food, ever. The evidence shows diet soda doesn't cause any of the things you listed. Again, stop spreading fear and ignorance, take the time to actually study these things.Like so many things, it might not affect your weight loss in a week or a year, or even years but the toll it takes on your health otherwise is really not good. Diet soda has been accused of causing migraines, brain tumors, ulcers, rotted teeth, cancer, gut issues and leaching calcium out of the bones. Why knowingly drink acid? If someone flavors goat piss with enough fake sugar to make it palatable and put it over ice, it probably wouldn't cause weight gain either. But why?
I'm curious, when have apples been accused of doing damage to the body? (other than organic vs. non organic) And yes lemons and limes go in acid, but are turned alkaline in the body. Alkaline= good. Other than apples all of the other food you mentioned are acids.
Would you care to explain, biologically, how the digestion of a lemon turns it from an acid to a base? The only places I've seen that are the ridiculous "alkaline diet" claims, which try to justify their "diet" by trying to explain how all the foods they tell you to eat magically stop being acids, while all the foods they tell you not to eat magically don't change.0 -
You can drink it, no worries. I can't drink it in moderation though, I just get addicted to it.
So now I have it as a treat, if I'm either out for a meal or if I'm mixing it with vodka.0 -
Why knowingly drink acid? Seriously? 99.9% of all foods are acidic. Oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits are all much stronger acids than diet soda. Yes, diet soda has been accused of causing lots of health problems. So have eggs, butter, milk, meat, bread, rice, apples, and pretty much every food, ever. The evidence shows diet soda doesn't cause any of the things you listed. Again, stop spreading fear and ignorance, take the time to actually study these things.Like so many things, it might not affect your weight loss in a week or a year, or even years but the toll it takes on your health otherwise is really not good. Diet soda has been accused of causing migraines, brain tumors, ulcers, rotted teeth, cancer, gut issues and leaching calcium out of the bones. Why knowingly drink acid? If someone flavors goat piss with enough fake sugar to make it palatable and put it over ice, it probably wouldn't cause weight gain either. But why?
I'm curious, when have apples been accused of doing damage to the body? (other than organic vs. non organic) And yes lemons and limes go in acid, but are turned alkaline in the body. Alkaline= good. Other than apples all of the other food you mentioned are acids.
Your stomach acid has a pH of 2. Nothing is turning alkaline in there.
The alkaline of your stomach varies actually. But where is this apple evidence?
I don't know nothing about no apples, that's another poster. But a pH of 2 is incredibly acidic, and since pH is on a logarithmic scale and not a linear one, you'd be hard pressed to find any food that will make your stomach acid more alkaline (aka: basic)....
t;ldr: Your stomach acid cannot be, by definition, alkaline.0 -
My mom was type one diabetic. I grew up in a house that had lots of diet coke and I got used to the taste early. I still drank the sugary stuff with my dad, but if that wasn't available the diet versions were fine. Then I stopped consuming sugar period for 6 months and now I can't even taste a regular soda without gagging. All I taste is corn syrup. Same with sweet tea..... Yuck. And as a southern girl, turning down sweet tea gets you some interesting looks LOL.
I allow myself one to two diet sodas a day though. Usually at lunch and when I get home in the evening. The rest of the time I drink water and green tea or unsweet black tea. This compared to the fact ALL I drank was diet coke previously. I think it is a great improvement compared to past habits. However, past diet experience I still lived on diet coke and no, it did not impede my weight loss. It did not make me crave sweets. It did not make me over eat. Everyone is different, but no, it did not hinder my effort to lose weight at all.0 -
I drink diet pepsi and have lost 151 lbs. We could discuss all day many items you should not eat, drink, use etc. because they cause one thing or another. My thought - I only get to live life ONCE; no rewinds or do over's, therefore, if I want something and I can make it work in my lifestyle then I am going to have it, experience it, etc.0
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Diet.Coke... yes I will, have and will always
Just with my current change I went from 6 a day down to 2.. I am good with that :bigsmile: 0 -
My mom was type one diabetic. I grew up in a house that had lots of diet coke and I got used to the taste early. I still drank the sugary stuff with my dad, but if that wasn't available the diet versions were fine. Then I stopped consuming sugar period for 6 months and now I can't even taste a regular soda without gagging. All I taste is corn syrup. Same with sweet tea..... Yuck. And as a southern girl, turning down sweet tea gets you some interesting looks LOL.
I allow myself one to two diet sodas a day though. Usually at lunch and when I get home in the evening. The rest of the time I drink water and green tea or unsweet black tea. This compared to the fact ALL I drank was diet coke previously. I think it is a great improvement compared to past habits. However, past diet experience I still lived on diet coke and no, it did not impede my weight loss. It did not make me crave sweets. It did not make me over eat. Everyone is different, but no, it did not hinder my effort to lose weight at all.
My mother is a type 1 as well and I grew up with diet coke! Also from the south. I know how you feel - regular coke is just too sweet.0 -
My mom was type one diabetic. I grew up in a house that had lots of diet coke and I got used to the taste early. I still drank the sugary stuff with my dad, but if that wasn't available the diet versions were fine. Then I stopped consuming sugar period for 6 months and now I can't even taste a regular soda without gagging. All I taste is corn syrup. Same with sweet tea..... Yuck. And as a southern girl, turning down sweet tea gets you some interesting looks LOL.
I allow myself one to two diet sodas a day though. Usually at lunch and when I get home in the evening. The rest of the time I drink water and green tea or unsweet black tea. This compared to the fact ALL I drank was diet coke previously. I think it is a great improvement compared to past habits. However, past diet experience I still lived on diet coke and no, it did not impede my weight loss. It did not make me crave sweets. It did not make me over eat. Everyone is different, but no, it did not hinder my effort to lose weight at all.
My mother is a type 1 as well and I grew up with diet coke! Also from the south. I know how you feel - regular coke is just too sweet.
AMEN to Sweet Tea in the South. I use to drink a pitcher of sweet tea a day!! Yeap, it was good too!! :bigsmile: January 2011 I gave it up cold turkey!! I haven't had one sip since then. However, you know how they say you substitute one bad behavior for another....Yeap Diet Mt. Dew!! I keep telling myself I don't need that and should be drinking WATER!! But, it helps me so much when I think i'm hungry!! :bigsmile: One day I told myself, Okay you have to drink a glass of water before you can have a soda. Well, I did it for a day!! Next day, back to same old same old!! For now, I don't want to give it up....maybe one day!! :drinker:0 -
I would die without Diet Dr Pepper - I'm sure of it. It just makes life better.
Lmao @ this!
I've been curious about this too and I love knowing that so many of you are on board. I still have 1 diet soda almost every day. I've cut a ridiculous amount of junk out of my diet.. leave my diet soda alone! haha.
Maybe when I get down to those last 10 lbs I'll wean off 0 -
I drink either Coke Zero or Pepsi Max in the morning (I need some caffeine and don't drink coffee) but the rest of the day I drink water. I still get my soda fix but in moderation. :drinker:0
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Sooo...diet soda is a no in your diet? Or is it ok since it has no calories? It has no nutritional value. Do you guys drink it?
In reasonable moderation, it's fine. Shoot, I'm obsessed with coke zero and diet dr pepper. However, it should never be a substitute for pure water. Make sure you get your water alotment in for the day without counting any diet soda drinks.0 -
I think it should be noted that diet soda will not cause any actual fat gain. Some people might be affected by the carbonation and/or the sodium (which is almost nonexistant). Also, while for the majority of people this won't be an issue, but for some, artificial sweeteners can be dangerous. Although, I doubt the sweeteners will have any negative affect as your body won't really do anything with it despite what a few "studies" show...0
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I miss pop terribly. But I find that as a diabetic that diet pop messes with me just as much as regular pop. I friggin love pop too, but it just makes me have to go to the bathroom too much and raises my blood sugar levels, so I don't drink it very often. But that is just my body's reaction to it.0
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Yep, I typically have two 24oz bottles of Dt. Dew each day, sometimes I splurge and will even have three or four (I'm such a rebel). I just make sure I drink a lot of water to try to offset the extra sodium intake, typically 5 20oz bottles of water a day is my minimum.0
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I usually drink it with dinner!0
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Why do you think this makes any difference?Sooo...diet soda is a no in your diet? Or is it ok since it has no calories? It has no nutritional value. Do you guys drink it?
In reasonable moderation, it's fine. Shoot, I'm obsessed with coke zero and diet dr pepper. However, it should never be a substitute for pure water. Make sure you get your water alotment in for the day without counting any diet soda drinks.0 -
Green tea and coffee contain "a lot of chemicals." In fact, they both have more chemicals than diet sodas. Everything you eat or drink is made of chemicals. Your entire body is composed of chemicals.Never drank it or plan to start. I drink water, green tea or coffee (with *shock* 1 tsp real sugar*). Got the idea that diet drinks were bad for me as it contained a lot of chemicals, forgot where I got the advice from but I stuck with it. But then, my diet is only in it's 2nd week.
Stop throwing the word chemicals around like it means something bad or scary. It's an argument people use out of fear, rather than informing themselves.
We are surrounded by chemicals. Everything has to be made of chemicals. Some which are the building blocks of life, in a healthy diet and some which are not - some which the body need in order to live and some which does absolutely nothing for the body. As a biochemist, when I 'throw around the word chemicals', I know what I'm talking about,but I don't intend to give a lesson here.0 -
i went completely off any sort of sweet "diet" drink loaded with garbage a few years ago. there was a time i used to drink 4 diet sodas a day and i stopped cold turkey. it was really hard at first, but it gets easier after a few weeks and eventually you won't want them anymore. any rare time that i do drink one nowadays, my body feels pretty crappy afterwards and i can't stand the taste. i think it's better to try to avoid them altogether.0
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I find diet soda helps curb my sweet cravings... psychologically. When I want something sweet instead of eating a high calorie cake or something like that, I drink a diet soda. It helps.0
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Green tea and coffee contain "a lot of chemicals." In fact, they both have more chemicals than diet sodas. Everything you eat or drink is made of chemicals. Your entire body is composed of chemicals.Never drank it or plan to start. I drink water, green tea or coffee (with *shock* 1 tsp real sugar*). Got the idea that diet drinks were bad for me as it contained a lot of chemicals, forgot where I got the advice from but I stuck with it. But then, my diet is only in it's 2nd week.
Stop throwing the word chemicals around like it means something bad or scary. It's an argument people use out of fear, rather than informing themselves.
We are surrounded by chemicals. Everything has to be made of chemicals. Some which are the building blocks of life, in a healthy diet and some which are not - some which the body need in order to live and some which does absolutely nothing for the body. As a biochemist, when I 'throw around the word chemicals', I know what I'm talking about,but I don't intend to give a lesson here.
So... You're a biochemist but stopped drinking diet soda because you got random "advice" that told you it had "chemicals" in it. Seems legit.0 -
Twice a day Vanilla Coke Zero or Diet Dr. Pepper. I don't drink coffee (no crazy reason, I just hate the way it tastes) so I have to get my caffeine fix somehow. It hasn't hurt my ability to lose weight and I like it, so I am drinking it.0
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I drink coke zero pretty much every day.0
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Does anyone drink Diet Dr. Thunder from Wal-Mart/Sam's? I think it's even better than Diet Dr. Pepper. Apparently others do to because I can never find any left at the local Wal-Mart!
I try to drink one glass of water for every diet soda. Seems like a reasonable compromise.0 -
i've never enjoyed water, my parents never made me drink it growing up so im really not used to it. i never liked diet drinks either, because i preferred all my sugary iced teas etc. now after dieting etc it's literally a must in my life and i have a cup or two a day (diet sprite, 7up and mountain dew are the bomb dot com)0
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Dietary Soda on the daily.0
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