Diet soda

I don't know about the science that claims it stifles progress.
That jury is deliberating.
As for me, I gave up soda - both sugar and diet.
To me it's like drinking water from a polluted lake. I don't feel right drinking diet soda.
Can't explain it.
Don't care.
I'll never drink one again and prefer iced lemon water or fresh green tea.

I know it is very high in sodium, which will make you retain water. I use to be addicted to diet pop (6 cans or so a day!) and it was mostly for the caffeine. When I started trying to lose weight, I switched to Crystal Light (ones with caffeine) and it has helped a TON. Plus....not nearly half the sodium and I can get my water in as well

EXACTLY.. you will retain lots of water.. and per my daughters cardiologist, diet soda will also dehydrate you... she said for the heart.. regular soda is better because you arent putting a man made substance into your body...

If you need caffeine, try diet green tea! It has TONS of good qualities, without the calories and the aspertaine!

you won't retain much, if any, water because of a can of diet soda. in any case, any retained water? that's not weight loss. drink lots of water -- we get rid of 90 percent of our excess sodium through urination -- and you'll get rid of any overage on sodium, meaning you'll dump that water weight, too. work out, then, also. 1-2 percent lost through sweat.

and drinking water out of the ocean? yeah. that will dehydrate you. drinking something with 40mg of sodium? not so much. that's pretty much dr. oz style crazy talk right there.

I drink diet soda all the time and it has never stopped me from losing weight. In fact once I started counting calories I stopped drinking anything that has calories for the most part

Will drinking any types of diet soda inhibit you from losing weight? I know it has no calories, but not good for you. answers?

No, too many calories inhibit weight loss.

http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners

doesn't seem like a reputable source to me.

in reference to cancer and artificial sweeteners...

Questions about artificial sweeteners and cancer arose when early studies showed that cyclamate in combination with saccharin caused bladder cancer in laboratory animals. However, results from subsequent carcinogenicity studies (studies that examine whether a substance can cause cancer) of these sweeteners have not provided clear evidence of an association with cancer in humans. Similarly, studies of other FDA-approved sweeteners have not demonstrated clear evidence of an association with cancer in humans.

What have studies shown about a possible association between specific artificial sweeteners and cancer?

Saccharin

Studies in laboratory rats during the early 1970s linked saccharin with the development of bladder cancer. For this reason, Congress mandated that further studies of saccharin be performed and required that all food containing saccharin bear the following warning label: “Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin, which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals.”

Subsequent studies in rats showed an increased incidence of urinary bladder cancer at high doses of saccharin, especially in male rats. However, mechanistic studies (studies that examine how a substance works in the body) have shown that these results apply only to rats. Human epidemiology studies (studies of patterns, causes, and control of diseases in groups of people) have shown no consistent evidence that saccharin is associated with bladder cancer incidence.

Because the bladder tumors seen in rats are due to a mechanism not relevant to humans and because there is no clear evidence that saccharin causes cancer in humans, saccharin was delisted in 2000 from the U.S. National Toxicology Program’s Report on Carcinogens, where it had been listed since 1981 as a substance reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen (a substance known to cause cancer). More information about the delisting of saccharin is available at http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/eleventh/append/appb.pdf on the Internet. The delisting led to legislation, which was signed into law on December 21, 2000, repealing the warning label requirement for products containing saccharin.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/artificial-sweeteners

I know it is very high in sodium, which will make you retain water. I use to be addicted to diet pop (6 cans or so a day!) and it was mostly for the caffeine. When I started trying to lose weight, I switched to Crystal Light (ones with caffeine) and it has helped a TON. Plus....not nearly half the sodium and I can get my water in as well

EXACTLY.. you will retain lots of water.. and per my daughters cardiologist, diet soda will also dehydrate you... she said for the heart.. regular soda is better because you arent putting a man made substance into your body...

Sodium isn't high and when did regular soda stop being manufactured and grow on trees?
There isn't any scientific evidence to show that having a couple of cans a day is going to bedridden you, make you retains TONS of fluid, etc. Some may have adverse effects from it, but the general population should be fine.

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She's saying the sugar being non-natural and man made. Sucrose/glucose are natural products not made by man

Most regular sodas have corn syrup and HFCS. Don't see how that's not processed. And there's a C&H pure cane sugar plant not too far from where I live. I'm more than sure they actually process sugar there.

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http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners

Articles aren't evidence. They are opinions.

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I quit and I found that I lose weight much easier.
Now I cant figure out why I drank it in the first place, taste really bad.


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^^^^^^^^
THIS
I feel exactly this. Again, when people try to get definitive, the dots just can't be connected.
Not yet.
But I know my body, and I'd sooner drink pig urine than a diet soda.

I would more worry about the aspartame in it... worst sugar supplement ever...