How bad is diet coke for me?

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  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Also, I've seen a few people blowing the horn of STEVIA, and that kind of amuses me. Aspartame is a horrible, terrible, processed artificial sweetener that you should avoid! So make sure you use the equally artificial and processed sweetener STEVIA instead!

    Stevia markets itself as "natural," but the sweetener is just as processed as any other artificial sweetener out there. According to stevia's marketing line, aspartame is equally natural, as it's ingredients are both naturally occurring amino acids.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    To be a LabRat it seems you don't get sarcasm that much, if any at all. The 24 cans a day was sarcasm since you did get that. And about the articles online, I don't know what threads you've been reading, but only the ones "they" read, are the right ones. So why don't YOU actually read what people right instead of jumping to conclusions?

    About moderation, that's mainly those who aren't the "experts" here, which is true, moderation is a key, but denying this crap like diet soda is completely harmless, is total BS.

    Now, before you actually try to correct me and say I'm talking nonsense, please, either READ the replies and stupidity people post in the threads, or don't try to correct me.

    Your so write!
    http://explosm.net/comics/2712/
  • duharvalgt
    duharvalgt Posts: 319 Member
    I love how people always seem to rage and pull out random sources when organic chemistry comes into play :laugh:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Honestly, both are bad for you.....anything but water is bad for you. In fact, water is sometimes bad for you to if it comes from tap.

    Do you seriously believe this???
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    To be a LabRat it seems you don't get sarcasm that much, if any at all. The 24 cans a day was sarcasm since you did get that. And about the articles online, I don't know what threads you've been reading, but only the ones "they" read, are the right ones. So why don't YOU actually read what people right instead of jumping to conclusions?

    About moderation, that's mainly those who aren't the "experts" here, which is true, moderation is a key, but denying this crap like diet soda is completely harmless, is total BS.

    Now, before you actually try to correct me and say I'm talking nonsense, please, either READ the replies and stupidity people post in the threads, or don't try to correct me.

    Your so write!
    http://explosm.net/comics/2712/

    Funny. But I'm not sure if you got my joke or didn't. :-)
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    I got your joke, mine was an add on. :drinker: <--- Diet Coke
  • HaggisWarrior
    HaggisWarrior Posts: 1 Member
    As bad as anything else, moderation. Be wary of replacing the synthetic sugar with real sugar from other places. Cheers and good luck! :smile:
  • I second the above - moderation. Personally, I don't drink soda. I don't care for it, and really, it's not terribly good for one's body. So are most things, but I can at least make the choice to remove something like soda from the equation.

    To each their own, however.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I got your joke, mine was an add on. :drinker: <--- Diet Coke

    :-)
  • Biomisty
    Biomisty Posts: 41 Member
    Coke works for cleaning bc it is acidic. It is acidic bc when carbon dioxide mixes with water it ionizes which turns into carbonic acid. It is however no more acidic than a lemon or orange.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    That's a good point. People love to say soda is terrible for you because it dissolves all these things while cleaning or whatever, but they conveniently seem to ignore the THOUSANDS of commercial and industrial strength cleaners that are based on lemons and oranges.

    Heck, plain water is actually an industrial degreaser.
  • You go girl! Love it!
  • Diet coke is "meh" for you. It may not deter you from losing weight but it's still unhealthy. So are most fruit juices...and milk(fat, sugar)...and alcohol. Water is best. I still have a Fresca every now and then but definitely not everyday.
  • cynhip
    cynhip Posts: 33
    I haven't had pop or soda in months. WATER! After all we are what? 85%...
  • Low doses of ethanol prevent harm from methanol from smoking and
    aspartame, which otherwise the human body always quickly turns into
    formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme inside the cells of blood vessels and
    many tissues: Rich Murray 2010.02.26

    This is inevitably a co-factor in many diseases of civilization since
    1800, ranging from heart disease to Alzheimers to cancers to birth
    defects like spina bifida and autism, which all have been increasing
    rapidly since the approval of aspartame in 1981.

    Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, Arizona State University, retired)
    sent Chapter 12, Autism and Other Birth Defects, to EFSA in early
    Novmber 2011, with a hundred mainstream scientific references,
    available free as online full texts, in his comprehensive review
    "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills", with 740 references
    published January 1 2012.

    His book is now available as an Kindle electronic book,
    $ 9.80 download, readable on any computer via free software,
    Amazon.com .

    within mutual service, Rich Murray

    MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
    BS MIT 1964 history and physics


    new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
    aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
    free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
    Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03
    http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html
    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

    http://www.amazon.com/While-Science-Sleeps-Woodrow-Monte/dp/1452893675/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325344126&sr=8-2

    about 240 pages text, with 740 full text references free online
    $ 37.98 paperback -- see:

    www.WhileScienceSleeps.com

    http://www.amazon.com/review/RNGG3O7U33VCV


    Rich Murray,
    MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
    BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
    254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
    rmforall@gmail.com
    505-819-7388
    Skype audio, video rich.murray11

    http://RMForAll.blogspot.com
    new primary archive

    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
    group with 120 members, 1,636 posts in a public archive

    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages
    group with 782 members, 24,432 posts in a public archive


    While Science Sleeps, methanol from cigarettes and aspartame becomes
    formaldehyde inside human cells -- Table of Contents, WC Monte bio,
    Kindle electronic book version $ 9.80 Amazon.com: Rich Murray
    2012.01.26
    http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/while-science-sleeps-methanol-from.html
    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1636
  • Low doses of ethanol prevent harm from methanol from smoking and
    aspartame, which otherwise the human body always quickly turns into
    formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme inside the cells of blood vessels and
    many tissues: Rich Murray 2010.02.26

    This is inevitably a co-factor in many diseases of civilization since
    1800, ranging from heart disease to Alzheimers to cancers to birth
    defects like spina bifida and autism, which all have been increasing
    rapidly since the approval of aspartame in 1981.

    Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, Arizona State University, retired)
    sent Chapter 12, Autism and Other Birth Defects, to EFSA in early
    Novmber 2011, with a hundred mainstream scientific references,
    available free as online full texts, in his comprehensive review
    "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills", with 740 references
    published January 1 2012.

    His book is now available as an Kindle electronic book,
    $ 9.80 download, readable on any computer via free software,
    Amazon.com .

    within mutual service, Rich Murray

    MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
    BS MIT 1964 history and physics


    new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
    aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
    free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
    Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03
    http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html
    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

    http://www.amazon.com/While-Science-Sleeps-Woodrow-Monte/dp/1452893675/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325344126&sr=8-2

    about 240 pages text, with 740 full text references free online
    $ 37.98 paperback -- see:

    www.WhileScienceSleeps.com

    http://www.amazon.com/review/RNGG3O7U33VCV


    Rich Murray,
    MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
    BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
    254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
    rmforall@gmail.com
    505-819-7388
    Skype audio, video rich.murray11

    http://RMForAll.blogspot.com
    new primary archive

    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
    group with 120 members, 1,636 posts in a public archive

    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages
    group with 782 members, 24,432 posts in a public archive


    While Science Sleeps, methanol from cigarettes and aspartame becomes
    formaldehyde inside human cells -- Table of Contents, WC Monte bio,
    Kindle electronic book version $ 9.80 Amazon.com: Rich Murray
    2012.01.26
    http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/while-science-sleeps-methanol-from.html
    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1636
  • dumb_blondes_rock
    dumb_blondes_rock Posts: 1,568 Member
    Honestly, both are bad for you.....anything but water is bad for you. In fact, water is sometimes bad for you to if it comes from tap.

    Do you seriously believe this???
    yes i do, have you tested yoru tap water lately?
  • Coke works for cleaning bc it is acidic. It is acidic bc when carbon dioxide mixes with water it ionizes which turns into carbonic acid. It is however no more acidic than a lemon or orange.

    Love it! Haha, I have a test on acids/chemical equations this Wednesday. I need all the extra help I can get! :P
  • Honestly, both are bad for you.....anything but water is bad for you. In fact, water is sometimes bad for you to if it comes from tap.

    Do you seriously believe this???
    yes i do, have you tested yoru tap water lately?

    Are you referring to the trace amounts of harmful chemicals in tap water? According to my physical science teacher almost all water has tiny tiny tiny amounts of cyanide and radio active...something like that. BUT it's so minute that it doesn't have any harmful effect on you what so ever.
  • monicalynne68
    monicalynne68 Posts: 87 Member
    I have a friend who is a personal trainer. He told me that I shouldn't drink diet soda. I joked with him that there was no way I was giving up my diet pepsi and he said, "You'd stop if I told you what was in it." That kind of makes me wonder. lol
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Wanna know what's in diet soda? Read the ingredients label. Mystery solved.

    Personal trainers aren't qualified to talk about food or nutrition, any more than any other person on the planet. There is no formal nutrition training for personal training, so odds are, your trainer friend is just going to parrot a bunch of false, inflammatory statements he picked up from some web site. Read the labels, do some real, peer reviewed research, and make your decision.

    Personally, I haven't found any peer reviewed research to say that occasional diet soda consumption is harmful in any way.