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Diet Beverages: The Grand Debate

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  • Posts: 4,397 Member
    Canada Dry 10 (diet ginger ale...especially with vodka) is my new obsession. Coke Zero comes in second.
  • Posts: 465 Member
    Coke Zero!!
  • Posts: 2,320 Member
    Diet Pepsi all the way!
  • Posts: 340 Member
    Fresca. cause it doesnt have the word diet in it but its secretly diet.
  • Posts: 13,454 Member
    Since I still had this page open from an earlier thread...

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    Myth 2: Diet sodas make you gain weight.

    However, diet drinks helping you lose weight? Hm...not so sure about that one.

    I don't understand why this is confusing? If people are normally consuming regularly sweetened drinks (soda, juice, etc) and switch to diet soda with zero calories, they are saving anywhere from 100-500 cals or more/day depending how many of the regular drinks they averaged? So why wouldn't that help you lose weight, to cut out caloric drinks and replace them with no/low caloric drinks?

  • Posts: 14,776 Member
    The_Enginerd wrote: »
    I thought this was going be a debate on which diet soda was the best.

    The answer is A&W diet root beer, BTW.

    ^This is the only correct answer.
  • Posts: 142 Member
    HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
  • Posts: 3,203 Member
    raysputin wrote: »
    HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!

    Well, since diet soda is 99% water, I'm good!

  • Posts: 3,982 Member
    edited November 2014
    I_Will_End_You wrote: »
    Canada Dry 10 (diet ginger ale...especially with vodka) is my new obsession. Coke Zero comes in second.
    I will actually give the tip to A&W 10 over diet A&W, but the 10 calorie drinks a grey area.

    A couple days ago, I mixed diet Coke and Coke Zero together. It was actually pretty glorious. #YOLO

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    raysputin wrote: »
    HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!

    Yep, pure clean water with no crap in it.
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    raysputin wrote: »
    HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!

    Montezuma's Revenge... Beaver Fever... water can be downright dangerous!
  • Posts: 142 Member
    Exactly! It's not the water but what else is in it that's the problem.
  • Posts: 296 Member
    Kruggeri wrote: »
    Since I still had this page open from an earlier thread...

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    lol--And coke diet cherry rules
  • Posts: 4 Member
    Just to add fuel to the fire.

    uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat2.asp?newID=3861

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660468/

    nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/nutrition/05symp.html?_r=0

    nutritionreviews.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/7/433

    Enjoy.
  • Posts: 3,203 Member
    drizlaru wrote: »
    Just to add fuel to the fire.

    uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat2.asp?newID=3861

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660468/

    nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/nutrition/05symp.html?_r=0

    nutritionreviews.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/7/433

    Enjoy.

    Good thing correlation does not equal causation! Phew.
  • Posts: 4 Member
    I would say the causation was fairly well defined. Though it does require reading it. ;)
  • Posts: 188 Member
    I used to drink diet soda and yes I did lose weight. That is because I replaced regular soda with the diet variety.

    However, from my understanding, diet soda still causes your insulin levels to spike.

    Without the actual sugar in your blood/body this can make you feel like absolute *kitten* and thus CRAVE the sugar your body thinks you have ingested.

    Let's also consider the "harmful" sugar replacements like aspartame in diet soda, which over a life time can increase your risk of cancer and blindness. Not a risk I'm willing to take unfortunately.

    I was "addicted" to coke zero, I drank it every day, without fail, more than water. I went cold turkey last year in June and haven't touched a cola product since.

    I'm not perfect, but if I can avoid chemicals/additives/junk in one important part of my life (so hard to do these days) I will.
  • Posts: 520 Member
    Diet soda aids in weight loss about as much as water does. Both have zero calories. :smiley:
  • Posts: 3,203 Member
    drizlaru wrote: »
    I would say the causation was fairly well defined. Though it does require reading it. ;)

    "Epidemiologists from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio reported data showing that diet soft drink consumption is associated with increased waist circumference in humans, and a second study that found aspartame raised fasting glucose (blood sugar) in diabetes-prone mice."

    "We determined associations between diet soda consumption and risk of incident metabolic syndrome, its components, and type 2 diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis."

    "Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome"

    The final one said quite a bit about how studies are mixed but ended with this:

    "In terms of general public health recommendations or clinical advice, the scientific evidence does not presently support a blanket recommendation to either consume or avoid ASB consumption in and of itself."




  • Posts: 340 Member
    JenSD6 wrote: »
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    Montezuma's Revenge... Beaver Fever... water can be downright dangerous!

    I had giardia once (beaver fever). Worst time of my life. I was pretty sure I was going to die.
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    raysputin wrote: »
    HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!
    I'd challenge that through time humans drank untreated water (probably cleaner than now). Now all drinking water is chemically treated for safety except in countries that can't afford to do it.
    Water is important, but one doesn't have to restrict themselves to just water. There's coffee, tea, diet drinks, dairy, etc. to choose from and still be safe.

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    BenjaminMFP88 wrote: »
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    Considering that soda is almost entirely water, you're probably good.

  • Posts: 326 Member
    Beaver Fever? I was going to Google, then decided that probably wasn't a good idea.
  • Posts: 2,272 Member
    Here you go:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis
    Not anything you ever want to experience and I've passed kidney stones...
  • Posts: 8,911 Member
    raysputin wrote: »
    HMMM. Back when our species was evolving and coming up with the body stucture that we are now living with, what did they drink? Oh! I know.....water! Top notch stuff - no calories, excellent re-hydrater, cheap, readily available, definitely not medically suspect. Get it inta ya!

    Hmmm, back when there was only water to drink, people lived an average of 30 something years. Now that there's diet beverages, the average life span is over 70 years. Coincidence?
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