Are you still drinking soda?

I was rarely allowed to have them as a kid, so I don't have much of a taste for them. I probably have one or two a month. Sometimes a regular soda, sometimes a diet. Coffee and water are my staples.

I gave up soda about 6 years ago when my doctor was testing me for hypoglycemia. (I cut down on a lot of my sugar intake at that time too). Just from doing that, I lost about 10-15 lbs! When the tests came back negative, I just continued with it. It's gotten to the point that soda doesn't taste right to me anymore, although I do have sierra mist when I have a sore throat which isn't often at all. MAYBE once a year.

The only other soda I can tolerate is in the butterbeer at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

I used to go through two 2 liters of Dr Pepper every single day. I still drink at least three twelve ounce servings. It does use a lot of my 1200 calories that I am allowing myself each day. I am trying to drink some tea and water instead of all soda. I can't drink diet soda, if I even get a hold of a piece of gum with Aspartame in it I end up in the ER with a SEVERE allergic reaction. That stuff will kill ya, at least it will kill me!

There is no "fact" that I'm eating poison. Plain and simple. I haven't read the article, because I recognized the site and figured it was the same as the zillion other alarmist/conspiracy theorist articles posted on here.

Grapes, broccoli and chocolate are poisonous to dogs. Aspartame in mass quantities is deadly to rodents. I'm not a dog, and not a rodent.

I know there are some people who have problems consuming Aspartame. My niece is one of them. She gets wicked headaches from it. People who have bad reactions to it should avoid it. I'm not one of those people. I do break out in hives from Ivory soap and the adhesive on BandAid brand bandages, so I avoid those products.

I have soda a couple of times per month. I always go for the soda with real sugar, no corn syrup. Around passover, you can find "Passover Coke" if you look hard enough. I just found Costco selling Mexican Coke in 12oz green bottles. They use sugar, no corn syrup. Try doing a side-by-side comparision and you'll taste the difference. The real sugar soda has a "cleaner" taste, and there's no slimy feel in the mouth.

I stopped drinking caffeinated coke and tea (I never liked coffee anyway) when I started having chest pains caused by stress and was diagnosed with arrythmia. After much research, one of the only things I could do aside from taking medication (which I felt too young for) was to cut out caffeine. I did that (I do have the occasional caffeine free coke and drink 3/4 cups of caffeine free tea a day) and it made a massive difference. I used to get awful migraines which I now don't get, and that is enough for me never to have caffeine again. If someone gives me coke with caffeine in, I can tell within minutes as it starts heart palpitations - I guess I'm just very sensitive to caffeine. Just because others can't feel that, doesn't mean it isn't affecting them at a more moderate level.

I also DO believe the aspartame/ sweetener debate which is the reason I really moderate the caffeine free coke as well. We are surrounded by all kinds of chemicals from cleaning products/ deodorants right through to chemical pollution, so as far as I'm concerend we should try to look after ourselves as much as possible and reduce our exposure.

And I agree with others that when I do drink CF coke, it gives me a sweet tooth and makes me crave more sweet things!

I think if people argue that 'aspartame was tested on rodents so won't affect humans' only proves that we shouldn't be testing on animals FOR ANYTHING, not that aspartame is safe! We weren't designed to eat all these artificially manufactured products. Fair enough to say, 'I know the risks and I'm prepared to take them' but to deny the facts just so you can kid yourself it's not harmful is some kind of denial. Just MHO, you understand.

Also, you have to take studies with a pinch of salt - they can obviously be biased according to who commissioned them. But just remember, it wasn't that long ago that tobacco companies were telling us that smoking was good for you.......just becasue something is deemed safe now, doesn't mean there won't be findings in ten or twenty years that dispute it.

Nope I am 6 weeks FREE as of tomorrow...:) I feel SO much better now....

This thread makes me want some Diet Mountain Dew Voltage.

I drink 1 coke zero or pepsi max a day. I also have 1 mountain dew a day. Both are bad in their own way but I am gonna do whatever I am going to do and that is just how it is. If you choose not to I think that is a wonderful choice and I really do commend you for it. I would never recommend someone smoke cigarettes even though I do that too. I guess I am just a horrible excuse for a human being. Oh well. To each their own.

I only drink soda as a mixer anymore. My first year at university I quickly realized that, with how prevalent it was on campus, I could easily gain weight simply by having it at one or two meals a day. Within the first month or two decided to cut it out of my diet completely. That being said, I don't really ever miss it and on the rare occasions when I do, I just drink it, damnit. XD But 9 times out of ten, it's clear soda (sprite mostly).