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Addicted to diet coke.. help :(
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Welcome to the diet coke addiction club. Maybe we should start diet coke anonymous.0
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healthy491 wrote: »So today I went to a confectionery and bought a diet coke and the store owner and my dad started giving me a lecture about how its bad for me , causes diabetes , weight gain etc.
I am kinda worried now as I am literally addicted and love it and its all I drink since I really hate water
I drink about 4 Litres a day ( I know its a lot ). Anyone has an idea regarding what I can do ?
Well...your Dad is wrong, so there is that. Diet coke is not going to give you diabetes or make you gain weight. Its not going to give you any nutritional value either. Its not going to do much of anything. So enjoy...or don't, but nothing to be worried by either way.1 -
MissJanet55 wrote: »Diet coke - all carbonated beverages - can be a risk factor for osteoporosis, and I have recently learned that aspartame is a neurotoxin, which freaked me out. I've drunk the stuff all my life, and have quit over and over and over. I am just poised to give it up for about the millionth time. I find when I'm not drinking it, my sugar cravings subside naturally.
It's also a diuretic, so I'd really encourage you to at least alternate water with diet coke; dehydration is no joke. I know how hard it is - I don't drink coffee (I dont' like the taste) and diet coke is my sole source of caffeine. I know there are lots of people here who will say drink all the diet coke you want because it has no calories, but there is a lot of real medical evidence that you're better off without it. Good luck.
Aspartame is not toxic. It's been studied countless times and nothing has shown otherwise. And the diuretic effect of caffeine isn't enough to cancel out the hydration of the water in soda.5 -
PennWalker wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »So today I went to a confectionery and bought a diet coke and the store owner and my dad started giving me a lecture about how its bad for me , causes diabetes , weight gain etc.
I am kinda worried now as I am literally addicted and love it and its all I drink since I really hate water I drink about 4 Litres a day ( I know its a lot ). Anyone has an idea regarding what I can do ?
Coke of all kinds is about as acidic than battery acid (I learned that in a science class). You can use it to clean rust off your car.
http://www.livescience.com/7198-acids-popular-sodas-erode-tooth-enamel.html
Don't tell yourself that you hate water -- give yourself a more positive message. Become a water freak. Put chilled bottles of water in your fridge. Try water with a slice of lemon or lime over ice. Buy yourself a gorgeous water bottle and carry it everywhere.
The kindergarten teachers use Coca Cola to clean dried paste off of scissors. It makes a great cleaner.
Vinegar is used to clean buildup in a coffee maker. Peanut butter is used to clean gum off of things. Your point?15 -
Diet coke contains caffeine and some small amount of salt which are both diuretic, that is true. However it also contains water. The amount of water it contains far outweighs the diuretic affect of the relatively little caffeine and salt is contained within. The idea that drinking a diet coke is somehow like drinking negative water is false. If you drink water you will be better hydrated than drinking water containing a diuretic, but you will still receive some hydration...it isn't a net negative.
People tend to get bored by simply counting calories and upping their activity level so they love to add all these little complications to keep themselves engaged like they have to avoid this or they have to get that. It really isn't that complicated, you don't have to avoid diet coke or diuretics to be healthy.10 -
Alluminati wrote: »PennWalker wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »So today I went to a confectionery and bought a diet coke and the store owner and my dad started giving me a lecture about how its bad for me , causes diabetes , weight gain etc.
I am kinda worried now as I am literally addicted and love it and its all I drink since I really hate water I drink about 4 Litres a day ( I know its a lot ). Anyone has an idea regarding what I can do ?
Coke of all kinds is about as acidic than battery acid (I learned that in a science class). You can use it to clean rust off your car.
http://www.livescience.com/7198-acids-popular-sodas-erode-tooth-enamel.html
Don't tell yourself that you hate water -- give yourself a more positive message. Become a water freak. Put chilled bottles of water in your fridge. Try water with a slice of lemon or lime over ice. Buy yourself a gorgeous water bottle and carry it everywhere.
The kindergarten teachers use Coca Cola to clean dried paste off of scissors. It makes a great cleaner.
Vinegar is used to clean buildup in a coffee maker. Peanut butter is used to clean gum off of things. Your point?
Oxygen destroys metal, but coke cleans off the rust. We should all breath coke.15 -
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Naturallivingideas.com is where you go for believable scientific reporting huh?
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869151300495X
ETA: Just realized if you don't have journal access you hit a paywall, I'd be happy to provide the full meta-analysis to anyone who wants it.
Fear of aspartame is unscientifically founded bunk. Its woo. Its a public fear-driven movement that has no basis or merit. It doesn't make sense, it doesn't pan out in any actual scientific study. There is no reason for concern. Its a methylated dipeptide for christ sake.5 -
Metabolic syndrome
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/4/6880 -
This thread. I can't even. There's so much facebook pseudoscience BS woo that my head hurts.
OP is already convinced that her diet coke is perfectly fine...
Believe science not woo (we need this on a shirt or something).
/thread.11 -
Metabolic syndrome
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/4/688
Did you actually read the study or did you stop at the title? Perhaps point to the place within the study where you feel they demonstrate a causative effect between drinking diet soda and weight gain or the development of type 2 diabeties. Or perhaps point out the part of this study where they provide the mechanism by which that would happen given that aspartame is just a methylated dipeptide.9 -
PennWalker wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »So today I went to a confectionery and bought a diet coke and the store owner and my dad started giving me a lecture about how its bad for me , causes diabetes , weight gain etc.
I am kinda worried now as I am literally addicted and love it and its all I drink since I really hate water I drink about 4 Litres a day ( I know its a lot ). Anyone has an idea regarding what I can do ?
Coke of all kinds is about as acidic than battery acid (I learned that in a science class). You can use it to clean rust off your car.
http://www.livescience.com/7198-acids-popular-sodas-erode-tooth-enamel.html
Don't tell yourself that you hate water -- give yourself a more positive message. Become a water freak. Put chilled bottles of water in your fridge. Try water with a slice of lemon or lime over ice. Buy yourself a gorgeous water bottle and carry it everywhere.
The kindergarten teachers use Coca Cola to clean dried paste off of scissors. It makes a great cleaner.
Google "gastric acid" (you know, the stuff that's in your stomach 24 hours a day for your entire life) and see how acidic it is.3 -
I got the girl version! Yay me!cerise_noir wrote: »This thread. I can't even. There's so much facebook pseudoscience BS woo that my head hurts.
OP is already convinced that her diet coke is perfectly fine...
Believe science not woo (we need this on a shirt or something).
/thread.
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »Alluminati wrote: »PennWalker wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »So today I went to a confectionery and bought a diet coke and the store owner and my dad started giving me a lecture about how its bad for me , causes diabetes , weight gain etc.
I am kinda worried now as I am literally addicted and love it and its all I drink since I really hate water I drink about 4 Litres a day ( I know its a lot ). Anyone has an idea regarding what I can do ?
Coke of all kinds is about as acidic than battery acid (I learned that in a science class). You can use it to clean rust off your car.
http://www.livescience.com/7198-acids-popular-sodas-erode-tooth-enamel.html
Don't tell yourself that you hate water -- give yourself a more positive message. Become a water freak. Put chilled bottles of water in your fridge. Try water with a slice of lemon or lime over ice. Buy yourself a gorgeous water bottle and carry it everywhere.
The kindergarten teachers use Coca Cola to clean dried paste off of scissors. It makes a great cleaner.
Vinegar is used to clean buildup in a coffee maker. Peanut butter is used to clean gum off of things. Your point?
Oxygen destroys metal, but coke cleans off the rust. We should all breath coke.
Have you ever seen what plain old water can do? It created the Grand Canyon, for heaven's sake!9 -
I want the black version. Love this.queenliz99 wrote: »
I got the girl version! Yay me!cerise_noir wrote: »This thread. I can't even. There's so much facebook pseudoscience BS woo that my head hurts.
OP is already convinced that her diet coke is perfectly fine...
Believe science not woo (we need this on a shirt or something).
/thread.
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Oh screw it I'll just link to it, always feel silly doing this but why repeat myself when I've already hashed this out a million times before:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary12 -
cerise_noir wrote: »I want the black version. Love this.queenliz99 wrote: »
I got the girl version! Yay me!cerise_noir wrote: »This thread. I can't even. There's so much facebook pseudoscience BS woo that my head hurts.
OP is already convinced that her diet coke is perfectly fine...
Believe science not woo (we need this on a shirt or something).
/thread.
Googling now!2 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »Oh screw it I'll just link to it, always feel silly doing this but why repeat myself when I've already hashed this out a million times before:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1308408/why-aspartame-isnt-scary
"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation will do."11 -
I'm not one to argue on internet forums, but there is a lot of documentation.
This science paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1474447/
And this piece on safefood, although this group obviously has a point of view:
http://www.safefood.org.nz/aspartaddict.html
An FDA paper on aspartame toxicity:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/jan03/012203/02p-0317_emc-000199.txt
And many more. There are also pieces saying it is perfectly safe, so pick your poison. But one thing is sure - giving it up is not going to hurt you.
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