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

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.

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?

Diet Coke is the nectar of the Gods. I love it so much.

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.

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

Orange juice is good, in moderation, maybe one glass a day is enough

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.

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

neither!!

neither... with orange juice it's filled with so much sugar its not even funny.. right after your hungry..your getting three times the sugar you would if you were to just to eat a fruit.. and with a diet drink it has the same about of sugar in it not to mention the carbonation it has that makes you hungry right after because it makes your stomach stretch out almost like a balloon.. so your best bet would be water... it will make you feel full.. and its healthy for you (sorry for the sp)

Wow, I don't know where to start, but I'll try anyway.
(1) Diet soda does *not* have sugar in it. At. All. Diet soda has artificial sweeteners in it, which some people argue are terrible for you, but there is evidence that in moderation they're probably not the worst thing ever. Either way, they are distinct from sugar.
(2) I would love to see some evidence that carbonation increases hunger by *any* mechanism, let alone by stretching your stomach out like a balloon.
(3) While some people swear by water as "making you feel full" the evidence for this is at best mixed. Yes, it provides volume in your stomach, but that doesn't mean it makes you feel satisfied, there is more to satiety than a full stomach.
(4) I'd also like to point out the logical issue, in which the commentor argues that carbonation stretching out your stomach will make you hungry, but water doing something similar will make you feel full.

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.

I'm afraid you're just wrong.