Great article about diet pop !

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  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
    Here we go again...

    yup, again and again...
  • sweetsarahj
    sweetsarahj Posts: 701 Member
    I find a lot of people misinterpret these articles. This article is talking about people who have diet pop every single day, maybe even more than once a day. The artificial sweeteners just mess up your body & trick your body into gaining weight. However, if you are on a major calorie watch & you are REALLY wanting a pop, or maybe you're out @ the bar & don't want to do too much caloric damage, a diet pop or two won't hurt you. Just make sure it's OCCASIONAL!

    I feel the same way about regular soda---- once in a while won't hurt me. But I don't eat aspertame.... not even once in a while.
  • sweetsarahj
    sweetsarahj Posts: 701 Member
    It seems to me that they're taking this data and skewing it to meet some kind of agenda. There doesn't seem to be any sort of context that makes real sense. They don't compare this group of diet soda drinkers against any other group, water-only drinkers or full sugared soda drinkers. I'd like to see this same study conducted against a group of people who drink full sugared soda. I'll bet they'd get the same results: people's waistlines would be getting larger. People who don't drink soda at all possibly would have better results, but as a whole, that group of people is more health conscious anyway, so again, the data is skewed.

    A DJ on the radio this morning said "I read that people who drink diet sodas get fat. Maybe they should just be drinking regular soda instead." He was serious. I changed the station.

    Yep, part of the problem is that we don't know who is funding the research. And, like others have said, what else we these people eating in addition to the diet soda?
  • LizC26
    LizC26 Posts: 319 Member
    I really hate these articles... The only way diet coke can make you gain weight, is if you drink a diet coke and then think that because you did, you can eat an extra big mac every day.....

    I drink 3-4 diet drinks everyday and I don't "overcompensate"..I've lost 15lbs....So it's not the diet drink that causes the weight gain, it's the people's mindset who drink diet coke.
  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    The researchers point out that their findings don’t conclusively point to a definitive cause-and-effect relationship between drinking diet pop and weight gain — merely that those who drink diet sodas tend to see increased waist circumference over time.

    This needs to be restated,
  • Gary6030
    Gary6030 Posts: 593 Member
    I think I would have to agree with the article from person experience. When I was in JR. High the doc said Diet Drinks for your pudgy little boy. I progressively gained between 15 lbs a year after that. Now that I've not drank any soda in nearly 2 years. I no longer have headaches, strong sugar cravings (CARBOHOLIC :) ) and feel better mentally. WATER for the win with the occasional ICE TEA> lol
  • Chuckw40
    Chuckw40 Posts: 201
    The researchers point out that their findings don’t conclusively point to a definitive cause-and-effect relationship between drinking diet pop and weight gain — merely that those who drink diet sodas tend to see increased waist circumference over time.

    This needs to be restated,

    Right, is it so surprising that a large portion of the people who drink diet soda are also obese? I would wager that most of the people who consume anything with "diet" in the name are overweight... Isnt that kinda the point?
  • katslosingit
    katslosingit Posts: 41 Member
    I used to work at a sandwich shop, and always laughed when people would come in, order a foot-long double-meat turkey, bacon, salami, ham and cheese (our best-selling sandwich), with extra mayonnaise/mustard, a bag of chips, and then a diet Coke. The sandwich alone was over 800 calories, and the chips were about 200. Getting a diet soda might have save them another 200 calories, but seriously, 1000 calories with food alone isn't going to be offset with that diet Coke. Might as well get a regular Coke and make a day of it.


    I hate it when people think like this. I don't drink Diet Coke for the lack of calories. I drink it because I like the taste of it. I cannot stand regular soda because it is far too sweet for my liking. But yes when I was eating these things, I would eat cake, pizza, cookies, subway sandwiches, quarter pounders with cheese, french fries or whatever I felt like eating that day with a Diet Coke purely for the taste. So laugh all you like.
  • beernutz
    beernutz Posts: 136
    Diet sodas do other harmful things to your body too. They cause migraine headaches, osteoperosis, raise your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and weight gain.. these are just a few... Diet soda's are almost as bad as regular sodas

    You forgot to include that they club baby seals and cheat on their income tax.

    Seriously, can you site studies which support any of those claims?
  • mynameisuntz
    mynameisuntz Posts: 582 Member
    This article is based off correlational research.

    There's a correlation between ice cream and murders, global temperature and drop in pirates, wearing wigs and hair loss. That doesn't mean there's a cause/effect relationship between the two.
  • bloodbank
    bloodbank Posts: 468 Member
    I used to work at a sandwich shop, and always laughed when people would come in, order a foot-long double-meat turkey, bacon, salami, ham and cheese (our best-selling sandwich), with extra mayonnaise/mustard, a bag of chips, and then a diet Coke. The sandwich alone was over 800 calories, and the chips were about 200. Getting a diet soda might have save them another 200 calories, but seriously, 1000 calories with food alone isn't going to be offset with that diet Coke. Might as well get a regular Coke and make a day of it.


    I hate it when people think like this. I don't drink Diet Coke for the lack of calories. I drink it because I like the taste of it. I cannot stand regular soda because it is far too sweet for my liking. But yes when I was eating these things, I would eat cake, pizza, cookies, subway sandwiches, quarter pounders with cheese, french fries or whatever I felt like eating that day with a Diet Coke purely for the taste. So laugh all you like.

    I'm with you. When the occasion strikes to go out to my local burger shack, I get myself a delicious cheeseburger... with a diet coke! And it's not because I somehow think one offsets the other, but because I don't see the need to consume nine gazillion grams of sugar just so I have something wet with my burger.

    I guess this is besides the point, though. We're here because some poor science managed to make yet another poor connection between diet drinks and splitting our pants.
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