Is diet pop really bad for you?
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Jbarnes1210 wrote: »My name is jessica , and I'm addicted to diet pop! I'm trying to give up, it has 0 calories/carbs... So why do I keep hearing it will,prevent weight loss????
We just had this discussion in another thread. No, diet sodas do not impede weight loss. There is no proof that artificial sweeteners are bad for you. They contribute nothing good as far as nutrition goes, but also contribute nothing harmful.
Try substituting fizzy water for one or two of your sodas over the course of the day if you really feel like you need to cut down the soda you drink.
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Well you are a sample size n=1. We could observe a McD's drive through and see how many obese people pull up and order diet drinks too (I'm guessing a lot).
There's a Johns Hopkins study showing diet soda may trigger already obese people to consume more solid food. However, there is another study sponsored by the beverage industry (hmm) that indicates diet soda can help with weight loss. So OP, just decide for yourself if you want to drink it, people can argue about this all day, and laugh at each other, but my best guess based on this limited and conflicting data would be that drinking it may help, hinder, or have no effect depending on the individual.
Diet soda has no effect one way or another on weight loss. It's simply a way to enjoy the taste of soda without having to drink your calories.
People who blame diet soda for their weight gain are using it as an excuse. If you're counting calories and otherwise monitoring your intake, diet soda will have no effect.
You are right in a way, it's an indirect effect in that the diet drinks seemed to trigger people in the study to eat more (it's not an excuse though, the participants didn't know the purpose of the study). The real reason they gained was, as always, eating too much. But it set them up for failure with their weight loss goals. Might not be a problem everyone. They just did the study on already obese people. (Myself, I think diet soda tastes disgusting, so I don't know why anyone would drink it, ever, lol) But I can understand if you are choosing between that and regular, the diet option would make the most sense for most people who are trying to lose weight. But OPs question was worth wondering about, especially if she finds herself having trouble staying within her calorie goals at some point.
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Of course it's just one more anecdotal claim, but I've given up diet sodas and artificial sweeteners multiple times for extended periods and it didn't change a thing. I did replace them with honey as suggested by a clean eater and gained weight lol. Also I have complex migraines and aspartame and other sweeteners are not a trigger for me personally. I'm not saying they're healthy food or that I wouldn't be better off without them, but I don't believe they've ever impeded weight loss for me. Not measuring/tracking food accurately has :-D0
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N=6, I drink a couple of coke zeros every day. Some days more than that.0
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SergeantSausage wrote: »
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Add another n=1 here for (I think) N=8. I go through periods during which I drink a lot of diet soda and other periods during which I drink none at all. My weight loss is about the same during both periods. My brain isn't "tricked" into consuming more food, since I weigh, measure, and prepare the same amounts regardless of what I drink with my meal.0
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Why are you giving it up?0
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I gave up soda because I didn't like all of the unnecessary chemicals I was consuming and the fact that I was pretty much addicted to it. I feel so much better without soda in my life.0
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Wow my first post (now my last) - as I find too much negativity here. That's too bad - you should be nurturing a supportive open environment here, rather than being defensive, critical and immature (laughing, really?) and let people make their own decisions. If something works for you - great - if not then find what does. There wouldn't be thousands of diets if one way worked for everyone. If you want to state what worked or didn't work for you fine - but there's certainly a better way to do that than what I am seeing here.
Jessica asked a question, I provided an answer. She asked why she hears that drinking pop will prevent weight loss. Keep in mind everyone is different and there are long term effects to take into consideration. The incidence of metabolic syndrome is a fact - and you can have it and be thin, so be careful not to fall off the diet wagon - the weight gain will be much worse.
For all of you ingesting chemicals and being so defensive - you do whatever you want. But it doesn't take a genius to know that drinking water is better than drinking pop - or soda or whatever you call it where you live - that is made with chemicals!
Multiple different scientific studies are cited in the articles below, from several credible resources.
http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/06/19/artificial-sweeteners-could-be-sabotaging-your-diet/
http://www.webmd.com/diet/20040630/artificial-sweeteners-damage-diet-efforts?page=1
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/04/saccharin-aspartame-dangers.aspx
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/artificial-sweeteners-sugar-free-but-at-what-cost-201207165030
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/
http://chriskresser.com/the-unbiased-truth-about-artificial-sweeteners
http://time.com/3380013/artificial-sweeteners-obesity/
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Wow my first post (now my last) - as I find too much negativity here. That's too bad - you should be nurturing a supportive open environment here, rather than being defensive, critical and immature (laughing, really?)
Absolutely!
Really!
BTW - you Moved The Goalpost there, Dan - by about a mile and a half, right?
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Everyone is "guilty" of "ingesting chemicals." Life is made up of chemicals. Couching your personal beliefs in formal language does not make them any more accurate.0
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Some people crave more high calorie things when they constantly taste sweet stuff, even if it's diet. Some people do better when they don't have sweet drinks all the time. I think it just varies.0
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idk if it is opinion or brain washing by my husband but the sugars found in diet drinks are bad for the body0
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I love my diet Pepsi (and the occasional diet Root Beer or diet Dr Pepper) and have been drinking them for 35+ years . . . . I'm not dead yet. I do limit myself to one (two max) per day and still drink water as much as possible. I've been thin with diet drinks and I've been very heavy with diet drinks - it all came down to how much solid food I was eating though.0
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There are no sugars in diet drinks, at least not in the zero calorie drinks. Most artificial sweeteners are GRAS, even the ebil saccharine. There's no really good reason not to drink diet sodas, unless you just don't like the taste of them.0
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Wow my first post (now my last) - as I find too much negativity here. That's too bad - you should be nurturing a supportive open environment here, rather than being defensive, critical and immature (laughing, really?) and let people make their own decisions. If something works for you - great - if not then find what does. There wouldn't be thousands of diets if one way worked for everyone. If you want to state what worked or didn't work for you fine - but there's certainly a better way to do that than what I am seeing here.
Jessica asked a question, I provided an answer. She asked why she hears that drinking pop will prevent weight loss. Keep in mind everyone is different and there are long term effects to take into consideration. The incidence of metabolic syndrome is a fact - and you can have it and be thin, so be careful not to fall off the diet wagon - the weight gain will be much worse.
For all of you ingesting chemicals and being so defensive - you do whatever you want. But it doesn't take a genius to know that drinking water is better than drinking pop - or soda or whatever you call it where you live - that is made with chemicals!
Multiple different scientific studies are cited in the articles below, from several credible resources.
http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/06/19/artificial-sweeteners-could-be-sabotaging-your-diet/
http://www.webmd.com/diet/20040630/artificial-sweeteners-damage-diet-efforts?page=1
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/04/saccharin-aspartame-dangers.aspx
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/artificial-sweeteners-sugar-free-but-at-what-cost-201207165030
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/
http://chriskresser.com/the-unbiased-truth-about-artificial-sweeteners
http://time.com/3380013/artificial-sweeteners-obesity/
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BuffaloChixSalad wrote: »idk if it is opinion or brain washing by my husband but the sugars found in diet drinks are bad for the body
There aren't any sugars in diet drinks, and people who say that the aspartame is "bad" for you are fear mongering.
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gotobedhungry wrote: »It makes you bloated but doesn't actually cause true weight gain. But it is just as bad for your teeth because although it has no sugar, it is very acidic.
How does diet soda make you bloated? Also, to my recollection, diet soda is no more acidic than orange juice, which has acid, sugar, AND calories, btw.0
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