Diet drinks?

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  • mathiseasy
    mathiseasy Posts: 165 Member
    auddii wrote: »
    mathiseasy wrote: »
    Alluminati wrote: »
    wickedmaineah wrote: »
    lauraesh0384 wrote: »
    I drink two cans of Diet Mt Dew every day and it hasn't prevented me from losing weight. :) Some people think they're bad because of the aspartame. If you google aspartame there's a lot of controversy on it causing cancer. I just shrug it off because apparently everything causes cancer these days.

    Mtn Dew is my weakness.....need to get a fix. How close is the taste pf Diet Dew to regular Dew?

    I heard it tasted doodoo-ish. Diet Dr. Pepper is nirvana, though.

    Can I "awesome" this twice?

    Unfortunately not. Twice the awesome is apparently not awesome at all.

    :sad:

    So very disappointing. I'd be loathe to remove an "awesome" for diet Dr Pepper and the doodooness of diet dew.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    daniellek30 wrote: »
    Honestly, i'm confused how anyone can think it's 'good' for you, considering it is entirely artificial.
    For people who have metabolic issues or diabetes, diet soda is a "good" substitute over other beverages containing sugar.
    It's "good" for many because if they like that soda "fix", diet soda saves them calories. Drinking 2 regular sodas a day is a use of 240 calories versus a diet soda with 0 calories. Now they can use that 240 calories for something like nuts or good fats and stay within their calorie limit. See how that can be "good"?

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  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,645 Member
    stevencloser wrote: »
    Hypocritical:
    of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess

    If one is hypocritical for drinking diet coke while saying they're healthy literally means you think they're not actually healthy.

    Shhh with your dictionary. This is a thread of opinions and fearmongering.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    daniellek30 wrote: »
    I didn't say that people were unhealthy for drinking diet soda. I said to boast of being a healthy living individual and then to consistently drink diet soda is hypocritical.

    Consistently.
    Really? I've drank diet soda for over 25+ years and don't have any health issues. Especially for my age. So where's the hypocrisy? There's no scientific evidence that consuming diet soda in moderation decreases/increases health in the general population, so again how is that a hypocrisy?

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  • JaneSnowe
    JaneSnowe Posts: 1,283 Member
    Why does diet soda have to be either good or bad? Why can't it be considered neutral unless one has an underlying health issue that it could aggravate?
  • zugunruhey
    zugunruhey Posts: 31 Member
    I don't think diet soda is unhealthy, I just plain don't like the taste of it. The sweeteners taste gross to me. But I do drink a lot of canned seltzer water because most of what I want out of soda is just something fizzy. Something fizzy and zero calorie is hard to say no to, if I could stand the taste of the diet sodas I'd be drinking them all day!
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    edited May 2016
    I just finished my dessert of 4 chocolate creme Oreos and a diet Dr. Pepper while catching up. I would have had milk but this thread happened.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Alluminati wrote: »
    I just finished my dessert of 4 chocolate creme Oreos and a diet Dr. Pepper while catching up. I would have had milk but this thread happened.

    Oreos are so full of artificial crap. If you had shared them, you could have avoided this catastrophe....
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    Alluminati wrote: »
    I just finished my dessert of 4 chocolate creme Oreos and a diet Dr. Pepper while catching up. I would have had milk but this thread happened.

    Oreos are so full of artificial crap. If you had shared them, you could have avoided this catastrophe....

    Says a nutmegoreo!
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    Alluminati wrote: »
    I just finished my dessert of 4 chocolate creme Oreos and a diet Dr. Pepper while catching up. I would have had milk but this thread happened.

    Oreos are so full of artificial crap. If you had shared them, you could have avoided this catastrophe....

    Says a nutmegoreo!

    That's what I'm saying... She should have shared
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    *reading this thread while drinking Diet Coke*
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited May 2016
    JaneSnowe wrote: »
    Why does diet soda have to be either good or bad? Why can't it be considered neutral unless one has an underlying health issue that it could aggravate?

    Because for some people, everything is binary. No such thing as neutral, it's either good or bad. Food is either "healthy" or it's "junk". As far as your diet goes, you're either a "clean eater" or you sit around all day shoveling pure sugar and fat down your throat. No such thing as moderation, that just couldn't happen.

    Lyle McDonald wrote an excellent article about this type of flawed thinking: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/excluding-the-middle.html/
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    As far as the science regarding diet soda itself, Examine.com has an excellent article with links to numerous actual scientific studies (not naturopath blogs or woo/scaremongering sites).
  • Ashtoretet
    Ashtoretet Posts: 378 Member
    I've been (by my standards, probably not clinical definition by a long shot) addicted to soda before but with diet I am perfectly able to control myself. I don't think it causes cravings, same for regular soda. I've always had a sweet tooth and that was before I ever liked soda, I used to hate it.
  • JaneSnowe
    JaneSnowe Posts: 1,283 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    JaneSnowe wrote: »
    Why does diet soda have to be either good or bad? Why can't it be considered neutral unless one has an underlying health issue that it could aggravate?

    Because for some people, everything is binary. No such thing as neutral, it's either good or bad. Food is either "healthy" or it's "junk". As far as your diet goes, you're either a "clean eater" or you sit around all day shoveling pure sugar and fat down your throat. No such thing as moderation, that just couldn't happen.

    Lyle McDonald wrote an excellent article about this type of flawed thinking: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/excluding-the-middle.html/

    Great article! I didn't expect an actual answer to my question but I'm glad you took the time to respond. "Excluding the middle"--so obviously what's going on here!
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