Will a diet coke here and there hurt?
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Pepsi Max ftw0
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Coke Zero above all.0
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Pepsi max cherry, vimto zero or fanta orange zero for me. I drink sugar free by preference, but it has been a convenient low calorie option since I started logging. Also, furry teeth feeling from sugary drinks = yuck.0
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benzieboxx wrote: »I don't think there's any actual concrete evidence on that whole diet soda thing. At least I've never found any concrete peer reviewed evidence or articles. I love the crisp taste of soda so I like to drink diet whatever. I've been steadily losing weight. Only times I've gained it's because I slacked on logging or ate over my limit. Not the soda.
I am not making an argument either way, but there are peer-reviewed journal articles out that have done research that confirms it is correlated with adverse health outcomes even when other factors are controlled. (Remember...the only thing in the entirety of public health that is deemed causal and not correlated with bad health is cigarette smoking, so something being a correlation isn't a reason to dismiss it in and of itself.)
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/4/688.short
"CONCLUSIONS Although these observational data cannot establish causality, consumption of diet soda at least daily was associated with significantly greater risks of select incident metabolic syndrome components and type 2 diabetes."
So as this article points out, it's not "causal" meaning the artificial sweetener isn't CAUSING the adverse health effect directly... but the correlation means its more likely situational and behavioral: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/17477160903497027
Then there is also research that correlates weight loss with replacing sugared drinks with either water or diet soda (my reaction: um...duh)
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/95/3/555.short
And no, it doesn't cause cancer: https://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/10/1460.full
So yea, it can work. Doesn't always. As usual, with these sorts of things. If you're here, you already are aware of yourself and your intake. So Diet Soda probably won't hurt anything.
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Cherry Coke Zero where/when available.0
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Love my Coke Zero. Down nearly 25lbs and have at least one a day.0
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arditarose wrote: »I wish it were easier to find caffeine free diet soda. Sometimes I want one later in the evening after already having so much caffeine throughout the day.
I've started having sparkling mineral water with a bit of Ocean Spray grapefruit juice (like 30ml) in the evenings if I'm craving a little something and I'm avoiding wine or more caffeine.0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »
Nope, didn't see the word 'diet' obviously!0 -
Drinking a diet Pepsi right now with dinner and I've been losing pretty steadily. I love water but about twice a day I need to change it up and drink something else. Sometimes decaf tea, sometimes full caf soda. It doesn't really seem to matter much with my weight loss.
I like to change it up a lot. Diet Pepsi, Diet Crush orange, any flavor diet Fresca, and diet A&W root beer or cream soda.0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »lisawinning4losing wrote: »All you've proven is that everything invented has to come from materials that exist somewhere on earth. By that logic, plastic is found in nature. It's made from petroleum, after all. In fact, by that logic, literally everything is found in nature. But it isn't.
Who cares? Lots of useful, pleasurable, and non-harmful things aren't found in nature. And lots of unuseful, non-pleasurable, and harmful things are found in nature.
Hemlock is all natural. I personally would rather have my diet Pepsi.
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positivepowers wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »lisawinning4losing wrote: »All you've proven is that everything invented has to come from materials that exist somewhere on earth. By that logic, plastic is found in nature. It's made from petroleum, after all. In fact, by that logic, literally everything is found in nature. But it isn't.
Who cares? Lots of useful, pleasurable, and non-harmful things aren't found in nature. And lots of unuseful, non-pleasurable, and harmful things are found in nature.
Hemlock is all natural. I personally would rather have my diet Pepsi.
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Diet Coke and jack Daniels.. Oooh anytime0
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Thanks for all the replies!0
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arditarose wrote: »I wish it were easier to find caffeine free diet soda. Sometimes I want one later in the evening after already having so much caffeine throughout the day.
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benjaminhk wrote: »Diet Coke is very good for you and has many nutritional benefits such as aspartame, artificial coloring and carbonation. DRINK DIET COKE. #vegan #paleo #cleaneating #wholefood
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lisawinning4losing wrote: »Yeah, but you'll also say that high fructose syrup is found in nature, even though it's gone through a huge amount of processing and definitely isn't found in nature. And most health experts, even the World Health Organization, recommend that you avoid it. Fructose is found in nature. But HFCS is not. And I promise that aspartame isn't either.
I checked and it doesn't look like it.0 -
benjaminhk wrote: »Diet Coke is very good for you and has many nutritional benefits such as aspartame, artificial coloring and carbonation. DRINK DIET COKE. #vegan #paleo #cleaneating #wholefood
#meateater#eaterofeverything#dirtyeater#allfoods
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