Diet pop - is it really bad for you?

Ross36 wrote: »

Soda is mainly bad for your bones whether it is diet or regular. It has high levels of phosphates which decrease the Calcium levels in your plasma, so your body responds by releasing parathyroid hormone. This works at the bones to release calcium. The hormone also inhibits your kidney's ability to reabsorb the calcium in the plasma, so basically you are peeing out your bones.

Always choose water!

That story works for me.

Seriously it was the phosphate thing that helped me ditch them about four months ago. Tasted one with sugar last weekend and it was like so bad tasting. I guess it was my sugar craving that led me to drink the stuff for 50 years. Tab was the first diet drink I remember.

I now by phosphate by the gallon and spray it on rusty things to create a hard protective coating.

You can drink diet pop, but NOT as a replacement for water

There's nothing wrong with it. Diet soda is just water, color, flavor, sweetener, sodium and citric acid. If you're worried about it, you can get one of those machines to make it yourself.

I have lost weight drinking nothing but coffee with artificial sweetener in my coffee and diet sodas and i have also lost weight switching the diet soda to water. The only difference is my sodium intake. Diet soda sometimes has more sodium to help offset the bitter aftertaste of the sweetener. Sodium enhances sweet flavors.

I also noticed no difference in cravings for sweets. I want them all of the time no matter what. Now that i am not getting the sweet soda i find it easier to want other sweets and also easier to fit them into my day because i am not getting all of the soda calories. No real difference in the end, just replacing one thing with another.

@laurend224 Still waiting to see if artificial sweeteners trigger my migraines like you. I cut them out a while ago and have recently added them back in. 3 weeks and no change. I am happy because i like sweeteners but at the same time disappointed because i have yet to find a trigger.

It's unsettled, but in terms of "pairings" (earlier in the thread), I must say diet coke with a chocolate or PB Quest bar is my favorite afternoon treat (or if I'm really throwing caution to te wind, Pure Protein Double Chocolate). Reminds me of soda and candy at the occasional movie as a kid.