Aspartame in diet sodas causes diabets and weight gain?!
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It depends on you. While diet soda has no calories, some people find that it elevates hunger levels and leads to overconsumption of calories. Other people do not experience an increase in hunger levels when drinking diet soda.
By itself, diet soda will not cause you to gain weight. It's how it affects your hunger levels and how you respond to those hunger levels that makes a difference.10 -
sarahdancerq wrote: »The two I had in my room at the moment are diet root beer ...Wal-Mart off brand and coke zero. When my fiance and i go out I get a no or low cal soda if I want a soda or water depending on my budget. I've been drinking no cal. Sparkling water too.
I don't get how people say also soda is bad cause it makes you wanna eat more cause you don't feel full. But my belly does the opposite LOL
Same here. I drink a diet coke to stave off the munchies since I usually feel so full after a 0.5L bottle that I couldn't eat a single bite without feeling uncomfortably full. Works quite nicely too as it also hits that sweet tooth of mine just right.11 -
You find 2 extremes on MFP
- OMG, everything I eat and drink is going to kill me!
- You can eat anything on Earth in any quantity and nothing will hurt you, ever: it is all just a conspiracy against the food industry
Find your comfort zone somewhere in between...35 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
Maybe it's a portmanteau for "diabetes and obesity"? I mean, I'm sure it's not, but it could be.14 -
Bry_Lander wrote: »You find 2 extremes on MFP
- OMG, everything I eat and drink is going to kill me!
- You can eat anything on Earth in any quantity and nothing will hurt you, ever: it is all just a conspiracy against the food industry
Find your comfort zone somewhere in between...
Nobody on MFP has ever endorsed consuming isotopic/molecular sodium12 -
sarahdancerq wrote: »The two I had in my room at the moment are diet root beer ...Wal-Mart off brand and coke zero. When my fiance and i go out I get a no or low cal soda if I want a soda or water depending on my budget. I've been drinking no cal. Sparkling water too.
I don't get how people say also soda is bad cause it makes you wanna eat more cause you don't feel full. But my belly does the opposite LOL
If you are feeling satiated by soda and/or no calorie drinks, keep doing it. Because there is no science to support what your parents say. There are probably magazine or newspaper article.3 -
stanmann571 wrote: »Bry_Lander wrote: »You find 2 extremes on MFP
- OMG, everything I eat and drink is going to kill me!
- You can eat anything on Earth in any quantity and nothing will hurt you, ever: it is all just a conspiracy against the food industry
Find your comfort zone somewhere in between...
Nobody on MFP has ever endorsed consuming isotopic/molecular sodium
There is a guy on MFP (probably with a bare torso profile pic) who would mock someone for refusing to put that in their coffee...19 -
stanmann571 wrote: »Bry_Lander wrote: »You find 2 extremes on MFP
- OMG, everything I eat and drink is going to kill me!
- You can eat anything on Earth in any quantity and nothing will hurt you, ever: it is all just a conspiracy against the food industry
Find your comfort zone somewhere in between...
Nobody on MFP has ever endorsed consuming isotopic/molecular sodium
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This reminds me of how I feel when people tell me carrots have too much sugar. I'm pretty sure I didn't get fat because of carrots and I'm pretty sure you didn't get fat because of diet soda.
That being said if they don't make you feel healthier make a different choice. Figure out your calorie targets, hit them almost every single day. Weight will be lost. Simple as that.
Good luck and I'm sure you'll do great!12 -
you beat me to it! Love this guy.3 -
Is any one else bothered that an experimental chemist doesn't wash his hands?4 -
I know there is a lot of information out there saying it is ok and other information saying it isnt. I chose not to consume artificial sweeteners because I personally believe extensively processed foods arent as healthy.
I dont think it necessarily effects weight loss although I read somewhere that artificial sweeteners screw with our perception of what sweet tastes like since they are so much sweeter than say fruit sugar.25 -
https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/diabesity
Medical Definition of diabesity
: obesity associated with diabetes : the state of being very overweight or obese and of having type 2 diabetes or one of the conditions (such as insulin resistance) that precedes it
Hectic work schedules, stress, cheap and easy fast food and sedentary lifestyles glued to the television set are some reasons why people fall into the trap of “diabesity.”—Meena Murthy, The Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, New Jersey), 15 Nov. 20116 -
For some of us, the sweet flavor of Diet Coke piques our appetite. I am one of those so I gave up Diet Coke and have more control over my eating. No, Diet Coke wasn't directly making me fat, it was making me feel hungry. Eating too much in response was making me fat.13
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »Among other changes to bring my calorie consumption down, I traded my many, many sugary beverages for aspartamey ones.
Here comes the ticker again...
I can do you one better. Here's my ticker AND my diabetes has gone into remission since subbing diet soda for the sugary stuff. (Although you have me beat because you are at goal and I am still working on it)
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/diabesity
Medical Definition of diabesity
: obesity associated with diabetes : the state of being very overweight or obese and of having type 2 diabetes or one of the conditions (such as insulin resistance) that precedes it
Hectic work schedules, stress, cheap and easy fast food and sedentary lifestyles glued to the television set are some reasons why people fall into the trap of “diabesity.”—Meena Murthy, The Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, New Jersey), 15 Nov. 2011
I assumed that was an unintentional mashup from previous poster, I still do, in fact - but knowing it has made it into the M-W annals is interesting!
I am totally going to use diabesity now instead of the previously popular Beetus.
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