Is Diet Pepsi Really Bad For Me?
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Weight gain and belly fat. Ironically, we actually gain weight from Diet Coke. In two studies conducted by the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, those “who said they consumed two or more diet sodas a day, experienced waist circumference increases that were 500 percent greater than those of non-users.”
It causes diabetes and heart disease. When waist circumference (belly fat) increases, this contributes to diabetes and heart disease, which a 2010 study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine confirmed.
It makes your kidneys sluggish. Diet soda may interfere with the kidneys, found the Harvard Nurse’s Study, which reported a 30% drop in kidney function with just two servings of diet soda each day.
Aspartame’s been linked to cancer. A lot. Aspartame is “generally recognized as safe” by the FDA while substantial data has shown its link to cancer. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) cautions against Aspartame because it’s poorly tested, and contains three well-recognized neurotoxins. Aspartame was found to increase cancer risk if exposure begins in the womb, reported a study at the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center. And various studies have linked lymphoma and tumors in rats. And beware the BPA of cans and caramel coloring, reports Grist.
I have a disease that impacts kidney function, and my doctor has never told me that I should avoid any sodas. He has told me to avoid energy drinks, but that's not something a healthy individual has to deal with.
Also, everything can be linked to cancer. Your drinking glasses? Those might give you cancer. Red meat? Cancer. Tap water, that could give you cancer.
Why? The people run studies on rats/mice that are more likely to develop tumors. So that means, if you had one as a pet, it would more than likely grow tumors in its lifetime. They also give the animal more of the chemical than any human would ever ingest.0 -
Soda, in particular of the cola variety, is poor for your health because it's acidity alters pH levels of the body until the body can regulate and equalize back to homeostasis.
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W. Tramontana | NREMT
No, Just NO :noway:0 -
In and of itself and in the context of an otherwise overall healthy balanced diet... no.0
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I drink it - must admit the kids might not survive if i did not get my caffeine hit.
However i can statically prove that 100% of all diet pop drinkers will die with 500 years of drinking the stuff.0 -
Soda, in particular of the cola variety, is poor for your health because it's acidity alters pH levels of the body until the body can regulate and equalize back to homeostasis.
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W. Tramontana | NREMT
No, Just NO :noway:
.. I guess lemon juice and vinegar is bad for me too huh. lol.0 -
This and other research shows how diet sodas make people fat and sick.
And that diet drinks may be even worse than regular sugar sweetened sodas!!
How does that happen?
Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar activating our genetically programmed preference for sweet taste more than any other substance.
They trick your metabolism into thinking sugar is on its way. This causes your body to pump out insulin, the fat storage hormone, which lays down more belly fat.
It also confuses and slows your metabolism down, so you burn less calories every day.
It makes you hungrier and crave even more sugar and starchy carbs like bread and pasta.
In animal studies, the rats that consumed artificial sweeteners ate more, their metabolism slowed, and they put on 14 percent more body fat in just two weeks – EVEN eating less calories.
In population studies there was a 200 percent increased risk of obesity in diet soda drinkers.
Stop making things up.0 -
Only in comparison to Diet Coke...because Coke>Pepsi0
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I don't know but I do have a friend who only drinks diet Pepsi and she's in her 50's. This woman has surgery every 3 months to either install a tube in her liver or a duct in her bladder. Not sure what is going on but she is on pain pills all the time. These surgeries have been going on for two years now. I asked her to try kicking the diet Pepsi habit but she says she can't. She doesn't drink water. Are the two issues linked? I say they are. Who knows?0
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There have been "studies" on everything under the sun and if you pay attention to them all you will go slowly insane.
Do what makes you happy and fits in with your calorie limit on MFP.
How's that for a simple answer?0 -
I don't know but I do have a friend who only drinks diet Pepsi and she's in her 50's. This woman has surgery every 3 months to either install a tube in her liver or a duct in her bladder. Not sure what is going on but she is on pain pills all the time. These surgeries have been going on for two years now. I asked her to try kicking the diet Pepsi habit but she says she can't. She doesn't drink water. Are the two issues linked? I say they are. Who knows?
Holy leap of faith, Batman!0 -
if you google CARMEL COLOR CANCER you probably wont drink pepsi any more.
if you think sprite or 7up or fruit soda is better because it dosnt have carmel color, then google BROMOLATED VEGETABLE OIL (BVO) and you will never drink sprite or 7up or fruit soda again.0 -
I don't know but I do have a friend who only drinks diet Pepsi and she's in her 50's. This woman has surgery every 3 months to either install a tube in her liver or a duct in her bladder. Not sure what is going on but she is on pain pills all the time. These surgeries have been going on for two years now. I asked her to try kicking the diet Pepsi habit but she says she can't. She doesn't drink water. Are the two issues linked? I say they are. Who knows?
I drink water, and I have immune issues. I've had different forms of chemo off and on for the last 13 years. Are they linked? Totally. Stop drinking water.0 -
Well honestly I drink quite a lot of it. I don't guzzle it down or anything but I usually get through a 2l bottle in a day. It has not slowed my weight loss not has it impacted my physical fitness which is going through the roof. I don't crave any carbs or sweet things. Frankly I think the research is bollocks.
The research isn't made up or false. People are just making up their own conclusions and taking the reported data the wrong way.
But they may be poorly designed studies. And probably are - I am having a really hard time finding nutrition research that passes the sniff test in that regard.
OP, if you have phenylketonuria or gout, you shouldn't be drinking soda, period. Actually, for gout, it's the caramel color that is the potential trigger, so you could drink non-brown soda without harm.
If you notice that you're hungrier after having a diet soda, you might not want to drink it.
If you have really lousy tooth enamel, you might not want to drink it.
Otherwise, there's no reliable evidence that it is a problem. Drink away.0 -
if you google CARMEL COLOR CANCER you probably wont drink pepsi any more.
if you think sprite or 7up or fruit soda is better because it dosnt have carmel color, then google BROMOLATED VEGETABLE OIL (BVO) and you will never drink sprite or 7up or fruit soda again.
I believe you mean 'Brominated,' which refers to the process of aerating the oil with bromine. Which, yes, is not a happy chemical. As far as I know, this is only an ingredient in fluroescent colored sodas (Mt Dew, Squirt, etc).0 -
I don't know but I do have a friend who only drinks diet Pepsi and she's in her 50's. This woman has surgery every 3 months to either install a tube in her liver or a duct in her bladder. Not sure what is going on but she is on pain pills all the time. These surgeries have been going on for two years now. I asked her to try kicking the diet Pepsi habit but she says she can't. She doesn't drink water. Are the two issues linked? I say they are. Who knows?
I drink water, and I have immune issues. I've had different forms of chemo off and on for the last 13 years. Are they linked? Totally. Stop drinking water.
Dihydrogen Monoxide kills millions of people every year.0 -
100% of the people who drink Diet Pepsi will die.0
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100% of the people who drink Diet Pepsi will die.
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I weep for science.0
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As long as you don't eat mentos at the same time because you don't want to explode do you.0
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If it doesn't cause you to eat more, for some people it does, I don't see the harm in it.
As with everything it's probably better to drink it in moderation. Are the chemicals in it bad for you? I don't know. We eat and drink a lot of things that have been altered, processed or entirely fabricated from chemicals.
So unless you eat exceptionally clean I don't think it will make much of a difference.0 -
I gave up diet soda and artificial sweeteners when I read studies about how they can trick your body into gaining weight. I actually used to crave diet soda, and I feel it is engineered to be addictive. I also choose not to drink sodas because of the artificial preservatives and colors, which I avoid in all things I consume.
Time will only tell if these will have bad effects on our health, but I prefer not to be a guinea pig.0 -
I gave up diet soda and artificial sweeteners when I read studies about how they can trick your body into gaining weight.
How did you manage to get your hands on studies that don't actually exist?0 -
Ok, to be more specific, stories about studies. True - not true? We'll never know, just like we don't know if anything in the news is true, but that will never change. So, I did my own study and by cutting out sodas and other crap, lost 52 lbs, no longer get heartburn, and can walk long distances without my feet swelling. That's good enough for me
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I gave up diet soda and artificial sweeteners when I read studies about how they can trick your body into gaining weight.
How did you manage to get your hands on studies that don't actually exist?
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for tricksy little hobbitses... I'm mean, tricky little diet cokes0 -
Ok, to be more specific, stories about studies. True - not true? We'll never know, just like we don't know if anything in the news is true, but that will never change. So, I did my own study and by cutting out sodas and other crap, lost 52 lbs, no longer get heartburn, and can walk long distances without my feet swelling. That's good enough for me
Actually we do know that there have been no studies that prove your point.
And I'm guessing the bold part is why you lost weight. Congrats on the weight loss though. :flowerforyou:0 -
As long as you don't eat mentos at the same time because you don't want to explode do you.
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Whoa!! Don't mess with peoples' soda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0
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Ok, to be more specific, stories about studies. True - not true? We'll never know, just like we don't know if anything in the news is true, but that will never change. So, I did my own study and by cutting out sodas and other crap, lost 52 lbs, no longer get heartburn, and can walk long distances without my feet swelling. That's good enough for me
Oh hey! A calorie deficit and exercise! That's what I'm doing too!
Diet buddies!
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I think I read some where that some sugar free/diet drinks contain sorbitol which is used as a laxative, I could be wrong though.
I don't think diet drinks are particularly bad, I just don't like the taste. They're good if you don't like to drink your calories, but you want something sweet. The only thing that I find is, a small minority of people forget they are diet drinks and they think they can pile in loads of other food.
Other than that op, I think it's fine.0 -
In to learn what in this world is not made of chemicals, also about magical studies that appear and disappear.0
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