Remind me how bad even diet soda is please

nuviag
nuviag Posts: 131 Member
edited September 24 in Health and Weight Loss
So I can stop drinking it already.
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  • kwardklinck
    kwardklinck Posts: 1,601
    One of my friend who's a marathon runner tried to tell me about diet soda the other day. I told her I know it's bad but I love it. :)
  • Oompa_Loompa
    Oompa_Loompa Posts: 1,099 Member
    I cant quit it. I love it to much lol
  • knighttrain74
    knighttrain74 Posts: 125 Member
    Momma says diet soda is the devil....
  • Natalie0506
    Natalie0506 Posts: 163
    How about this: My step dad drank 2 2 liters of diet coke a day for years. He died of a heart attack at 48.

    Diet soda is TERRIBLE for you.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    http://www.ehow.com/list_6060046_dangers-diet-pop_.html
  • nquirico
    nquirico Posts: 4 Member
    even though there is no sugar in diet soda, our bodies have 'adapted' so well to our s#!%&y diet that studies are showing that we release insulin even in the presence of 'fake' sugars... this means that when your brain tastes something sweet, insulin gets released. Insulin in the blood stream aids in laying down fat. So, yeah, you can still get fat by drinking diet soda. If that isn't enough motivation, consider the mineral loss in your bones. Keep drinking soda (diet or otherwise) and you will be fat with weak bones... how's that? helpful?
  • Genie30
    Genie30 Posts: 316 Member
    Any carbonated drinks will leach calcium and other minerals out of your system so while your busy making sure your getting your nutrition right, the drinks are quietly undoing all your good work.

    Plus they make you bloated, disturb your body's water balance and are full of awful chemicals like Aspartame (which causes bladder weakness and there are studies linking it to cancer although I'm not sure how reputable they are).

    I know it's hard, I'm a recovering Pesi max addict but it's so worth giving up.
  • ThomasBihn
    ThomasBihn Posts: 5
    A friend from work was having chronic stomach pains a couple years back. His doctor recommended he quit diet soda and his stomach pains went away and never returned. I can't even hope to repeat the terminology, but the carbonation was what was messing him up. There have also been studies linking the artificial sweetener aspertame to cancer in mice.
  • kwardklinck
    kwardklinck Posts: 1,601
    Are they sure it was cuz it was diet soda that he had a heart attack? That sound like an awful lot of caffeine to me. I limit my intake to 1 or 2 per day.
  • sbwood888
    sbwood888 Posts: 953 Member
    Sorry to say..........I am a diet Mountain Dew girl and probably always will be. :frown:

    Oh, well...........:drinker:
  • wiggleroom
    wiggleroom Posts: 322 Member
    I quit diet soda a long time ago, so on the rare occasions that I drink it, I immediately notice what it's doing to me. I know different studies say different things, but I can tell you that, for me, diet soda:

    1. blows me up like a puffer fish (which adds water weight, but also makes it uncomfortable to work out!)
    2. makes me crave sugar and carbs (don't know if it's physiological or psychological -- but does that matter?)
    3. makes me tired (again -- harder to work out .... and more likely to make poor food choices)

    I absolutely understand how hard it is to quit (I used to drink 5 to 6 cans of diet coke per day) -- but I promise you that it is completely worth it.

    Oh - cutting out the diet soda makes more room for water, too! Which is great for your metabolism and your skin & hair!
  • Teresa652
    Teresa652 Posts: 217 Member
    How about this: My step dad drank 2 2 liters of diet coke a day for years. He died of a heart attack at 48.

    Diet soda is TERRIBLE for you.


    Sorry for your loss, and you know for a fact that it was the diet coke that caused his heart attack. I drink it everyday and not just 1 or 2 cans and I don't have the effects that some of these people are saying. I think each person is different. I will not stop drinking it, in fact I'm going to go and have one right now for my break.
  • MistyMtnMan
    MistyMtnMan Posts: 527 Member
    I've also heard from body builders that the carbon dioxide can break down muscle fiber. Does anyone know if this is true though?
  • bullmastifflover
    bullmastifflover Posts: 128 Member
    Jillian Michaels "Master Your Metabolism"

    pg. 102 "A huge retrospective study of ninety-five hundred people over nine years found that eating meat and fried foods and drinking diet soda were the three most prominent risk factors of whether people developed metabolic syndrome. Compared with people who drank none, those who drank just one can of diet soda a day had a 34 percent greater incidence of metabolic symdrome."

    pg. 103 " Studies on animals give us a clue to what's happening here. Researchers at Purdue University found that when animals were fed yogurt with saccharin they later consumed more calories, gained more weight, and put on more body fat than animals that were fed yogurt sweetened with glucose, a natural sugar with the same number of calories-fifteen per teason-as table sugar."

    pg. 104 "One more plausible explanation why artificial sweeteners make us fat might be the fact that aspartame, also known as NutraSweet, is an excitotoxin, a chemical that may cause permanent damage to our brain's appetite center."

    I used to work with in a Chemistry lab at a university with postdocs & PhD students and those chemists refused to drink diet sodas. Apparently the body doesn't know how to handle fake sugar...so I'll stick with real sugar.
  • UmbraForzare
    UmbraForzare Posts: 137
    Personally I hate the stuff.
    The Aspartame (and whatever else they stick in it) leaves the nastiest metallic taste in my mouth (and has anyone else noticed that it makes whatever you eat while/after drinking a diet soda taste really off??), it bloats me, makes me tired (and cranky as well!) and gives me gas.

    Reason enough for me to steer well clear!

    Saying that, I was never really all that keen on regular soda either.....
  • liz11599
    liz11599 Posts: 220 Member
    According to a report released on February 9, 2011 daily consumption of diet sodas have been linked to an increased risk of stroke and heart attack and according to information found on Livestrong.com the side affects of aspartame (the artificial sweetner found in diet sodas) include "headaches, weight gain, rashes, fatigue, irritability, heart palpitations, dizziness, insomnia and seizures".

    I hope this helps :)
  • LeAnn_Mae
    LeAnn_Mae Posts: 263 Member
    I'm a long-time Diet Dr. Pepper addict. I've read about the dangers of aspartame, caffeine, etc. but when you're an addict none of that stuff matters. I've tried to quit several times but failed. I notice the only thing that curbs my cravings is exercise. And that is because I crave water when I've been working out. And after I drink a few glasses of water I feel too full to drink soda!
  • gaeljo
    gaeljo Posts: 223 Member
    Contains aspartame which is rat poison. Puts holes in your brain. Enjoy.
  • kayemme
    kayemme Posts: 1,782 Member
    even though there is no sugar in diet soda, our bodies have 'adapted' so well to our s#!%&y diet that studies are showing that we release insulin even in the presence of 'fake' sugars... this means that when your brain tastes something sweet, insulin gets released. Insulin in the blood stream aids in laying down fat. So, yeah, you can still get fat by drinking diet soda. If that isn't enough motivation, consider the mineral loss in your bones. Keep drinking soda (diet or otherwise) and you will be fat with weak bones... how's that? helpful?

    wow! i don't drink soda regularly any more... after a 30 year habit! it takes a little getting used to, but i find water & tea are sufficient now
  • LeAnn_Mae
    LeAnn_Mae Posts: 263 Member
    Also it makes you hungry. They've done studies on this but I can only go on my own experience and my experience says it's true. If there is junk food in the house I won't eat it unless there is a DDP to go with it. That's not really a conscious choice, it just doesn't sound good without a DDP.
  • Suedre
    Suedre Posts: 435 Member
    I know we all walk different paths, but in my experience giving up diet soda cleared some serious and scary health issues. After several tests including MRIs and a nasty needle test, my regular doctor insisted that I lay off the soda for at least two weeks. I thought he was full of crap, but figured I didn’t have much to lose at that point. After four days, the symptoms were all but gone. I’ve been soda free for a year now and don’t miss it at all. I tried one about two months ago and after such a long time, I realized they don’t actually taste so good. :)
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    How about this: My step dad drank 2 2 liters of diet coke a day for years. He died of a heart attack at 48.

    Diet soda is TERRIBLE for you.


    My great grandma only drank diet soda and lived to be 104,im not kidding she loved that stuff
  • ramseyrose
    ramseyrose Posts: 421 Member
    Coke will clean oil off drives and sperm on contact; so imagine what it's doing to your body. The fake sugars also cause you to crave real sugars, so it really messes with your willpower!
  • Teresa652
    Teresa652 Posts: 217 Member
    Contains aspartame which is rat poison. Puts holes in your brain. Enjoy.

    Aspartame has been found to be safe for human consumption by more than ninety countries worldwide, with FDA officials describing aspartame as "one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the agency has ever approved" and its safety as "clear cut". The weight of existing scientific evidence indicates that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a non-nutritive sweetener.
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    I drink coke zero sometimes once a day sometimes every few days,I have never noticed and increase in cravings or anything of that nature
  • boomstick13s
    boomstick13s Posts: 70
    i gave up diet soda (diet mt dew) for new years. the caffeine and the sodium keep my blood pressure high. losing 40 lbs did not change my blood pressure at all, but cutting out the diet soda dropped it enough to get me under the line.
  • T_William
    T_William Posts: 147 Member
    Again those against it often wil find a 1 case in 10,000,000 and say thats a common occurence or it will cause premature death easy. I have 1 small glass or a can every other day i'd say, and drink over a litre of water every day. I'd regard that as a happy medium of drinking it and none, its small amounts and I have gone weeks without it too.
  • DowntimeDesigns
    DowntimeDesigns Posts: 134 Member
    Again those against it often wil find a 1 case in 10,000,000 and say thats a common occurence or it will cause premature death easy. I have 1 small glass or a can every other day i'd say, and drink over a litre of water every day. I'd regard that as a happy medium of drinking it and none, its small amounts and I have gone weeks without it too.

    Thats how I feel about it.

    I'm not a doctor or dentist or a carpenter (not that that has anything to do with it), but I think all things in moderation. I may have a Diet Dr. Pepper today, but I will have it in addition to the 3 liters of water I drink while at work (8-5). I won't reach for one when I'm thirsty because then i will just down it. I prefer to have it around two hours or so before my lunch break or around the 3:00 hour when time seems to be creeping by. I won't drink it out of the can, but pour it into a glass with ice and drink it slowly and enjoy it.

    Saturday night I was CRAVING some ice-cream at like 10:30 at night, and I waited for it to pass and it didn't. I grabbed a DDP and slowly drank, it helped curb the ice cream craving and got me back on track.
  • carl1738
    carl1738 Posts: 444 Member
    Contains aspartame which is rat poison. Puts holes in your brain. Enjoy.
    God must really love stupid people, because he certainly put enough of them on this Earth. :huh: Some people will believe anything that they're told.
  • BreakingUpWithObesity2013
    BreakingUpWithObesity2013 Posts: 276 Member
    Diet Mt Dew is my weakness...I've tried to go without it and I made it 3 weeks...I took a nutrition class a while back and the research I did stated that it takes 23 bottles of water to get the chemicals from one can of pop out of your system....thats craziness...but I am not strong enough to go w/o pop at all =( it tastes way too good.
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