Diet Soda

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  • now_or_never12
    now_or_never12 Posts: 849 Member
    There are too many scare stories in the media and online about diet coke.

    From what I know, nothing has been proven to cause the issues in humans. Studies were done on rats.

    I have never experienced adverse effects of diet pop.

    I drink it. A lot of fruit juices have more acid in them than a can of diet pop. The acid in it is nothing considered to the acid in your stomach or in a lot of foods people eat. Artificial sweeteners are in A LOT of things you wouldn't expect them to be.

    Fine to drink in my opinion.
  • mathiasg
    mathiasg Posts: 32
    I drink a lot of Diet Coke and Coke Zero. I know it is not the best stuff for me, but it is definitely better than the real thing!

    I have definitely cut back and tried to replace with water, but I don't think I am doing anything horrible having a a few diet sodas here and there.
  • eliz5210
    eliz5210 Posts: 3 Member
    I have been drinking a lot of diet sodas and recently switched to drinking mostly water. I feel less bloated probably because of the salt. I also think it helps me not to want sweet things all of the time. Your body gets used to not having the sweet taste and craving it when you give up the sodas. I have a few diet drinks now and then but I do feel better drinking water.
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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    Why do people say diet soda is worse for you than regular soda? Is it just because of the artificial sweetener or is there another reason why?
    Because they believe the articles they read from "clean" and "natural" eaters. Scientific studies on this have repeatedly stated that the amount of aspartame in a single can of diet soda isn't enough to create the onset issues that are claimed by anti aspartame crowd.

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  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    Let me go look for GC_Hutson. He's the expert on this...
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    Diet coke:

    Carbonated water, colour (caramel E150d), sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame-K), flavourings (including caffeine), phosphoric acid, citric acid. Contains a source of phenylalanine.

    Why would anyone choose to put this in their body? (Says the man who drank Diet Coke for 30 years.)

    These days there are other things I'd rather drink - coconut water, Kombucha, a nice cup of tea or an unsweetened cappuccino. Even a plain sparkling mineral water.
    Because it "calms" my sweet cravings (says a man who has drank it for 29 years and still does).

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    Regular coke:

    Carbonated Water , Sugar , Colour (Caramel E150d) , Phosphoric Acid , Natural Flavourings including Caffeine.

    Pretty much the same things except sugar has been replaced with aspartame and ace-k (or E951 and E950, I think) which are chemicals...in saying that though you don't just walk up to a tree and grab some sugar it's gotta be extracted and stuff.

    Phosphoric Acid is used as a rust remover (extract from Wikipedia):

    Rust removal

    Phosphoric acid may be used as a "rust converter", by direct application to rusted iron, steel tools, or surfaces. The phosphoric acid converts reddish-brown iron(III) oxide, Fe2O3 (rust) to black ferric phosphate, FePO4.

    "Rust converter" is sometimes a greenish liquid suitable for dipping (in the same sort of acid bath as is used for pickling metal), but it is more often formulated as a gel, commonly called naval jelly. It is sometimes sold under other names, such as "rust remover" or "rust killer". As a thick gel, it may be applied to sloping, vertical, or even overhead surfaces.

    After treatment, the black ferric-phosphate coating can be scrubbed off, leaving a fresh metal surface. Multiple applications of phosphoric acid may be required to remove all rust. The black phosphate coating can also be left in place, where it will provide moderate further corrosion resistance (such protection is also provided by the superficially similar Parkerizing and blued electrochemical conversion coating processes).

    And in saying that I'll still drink it occasionally!!
    Research "hydrochloric acid". It's in your stomach. Drink up.

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    I went off it when a UK TV programme on household tips recommended for descaling toilets and removing tarnish from brass...
    Baking soda works too. Make sure not to put that in your foods.

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    aspartame has been shown to increase blood sugar levels and cravings for actual sugar and sweet things.
    Peer reviewed clinical study for this?

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    Let me go look for GC_Hutson. He's the expert on this...
    My bud............:laugh: :laugh:

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  • fat2fitKara
    fat2fitKara Posts: 136
    I don't have a lot of knowledge around soda/diet soda/artificial sweeteners. But I do know that dark sodas eat away are your teeths enamel and stains your teeth. The damange done to the enamel is irreversible. Light sodas (sprite, mt dew, etc..) arn't as harsh on your enamel but they are very unhealthy to your teeth in general and bones.

    I only know this because I was born with extremely weak enamel..
  • filmdir
    filmdir Posts: 5
    I'm a huge Diet Coke fan. But I know it's not good for you. The problem is once you have one you can't stop.
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