Is diet Pepsi really OK to have on a diet?
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jofjltncb6 wrote: »
As usual, context and dosage are completely ignored in the name of fanaticism. When are people going to start talking about how deadly dangerous water is when you chug 10 gallons of it per day?0 -
Thanks for all the replies, looks like it's A OK then. I'll try some of the suggestions and see which brand I prefer.0
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Vanilla Coke Zero is my diet staple. Delicious stuff.0
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I love A&W 10 root beer!0
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No. Diet Pepsi is NOT OK.
But only because it's gross.
Diet Coke, on the other hand, is perfectly fine.0 -
There are a few problems with Diet soft drinks. I gave them up for New Years. 3 days and still sober. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/17/349270927/diet-soda-may-alter-our-gut-microbes-and-the-risk-of-diabetes
There are no problems with drinking diet soft drinks. The above article is full of fearmongering and short of actual science.
Mostly, it is short on links to the studies to which it refers. The microbiome is a hot area of research, and metabolic disorders are high on the list of things the microbiome influences. This area of research is too new and too broad to have tons of large scale research on point, but what there is is strongly suggestive (at least as to the microbiome/health connection). There are documented cases of diabetes both arising and vanishing after fecal transplants from individuals with/without diabetes into someone without/with diabetes. This article gives a general overview and alludes to the fecal transplant connection. This article seems to be the mouse study that was referenced.
Is a suggestion that artificial sweeteners may impact the microbiome, and secondarily things like obesity and diabetes, as part of a relatively balanced article that expressly acknowledges that this research is in its infancy really so outrageous that you need to label it "fearmongering"?0
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