Diet Soda vs. Non-Diet Soda
Aug 28, 2003 Author: Meredith | Filed under: dietI had a little chat with warhol yesterday about diet cola. Here’s what he had to say:
I’d rather have empty calories than artificial sweeteners. [...] I’d rather have something the body was designed to process, albeit in abudance, than exotic chemical compounds. If you’re going to consume equal quantities of both, I’d rather have good old fashioned sugar than some bizarre lab concocted compound whose long term effects are unknown.
I also said “I find it is usually guys who claim diet soda is nasty and insist they prefer regular soda; girls seem to have more sense and understand that regular soda is as bad for you as eating a Big Mac every day.” Somebody else threw in “thats because guys don’t need to convince themselfs that it taste nice” to which my response was “Apparently because guys don’t care about their weight.” Perhaps the wisest comment on the issue was someone else’s suggestion of “beer-flavored diet soda. That’s the ticket!”
But I really don’t get why people would drink regular soda unless they have a legitimate health concern about the artificial sweeteners. There are literally no benefits to drinking regular soda - meaning that there are only negatives! Why drink all that sugar? I can drink as much diet soda as I want and it never hurts my diet. Before I realized regular soda was fattening, I used to get it when I was hungry at work - and it did help with the hunger! But there was no nutritional benefit to it. I just don’t understand why people would knowingly put that much empty calories into their body if they didn’t have to. I have plenty of choices with diet soda - the only ones I’ve missed out on so far are Pepsi Blue, Dr. Pepper Red Fusion, Tropical Sprite Remix (I tried a bit of the regular and didn’t like it anyway), and Mountain Dew Livewire. Any other soda I could possibly want, I can get in diet. (Yes, it was a while between the release of Vanilla Coke and Diet Vanilla Coke, but I survived - and it was worth the wait!) It just doesn’t make sense to me why somebody would choose regular soda.
Added 15 December 2004: I’m closing comments. I’m tired of people babbling on about this in my comments without any citations. Sorry.
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59 Responses for "Diet Soda vs. Non-Diet Soda"
Of course, there’s another option: don’t drink soda of any variety. I generally only drink a soft drink when I go to a fast food restaurant, and that’s a very rare occurrence. I much prefer a nice glass of water or, if it’s available, a good beer. Soft drinks are just flavored, overpriced water. Why bother with them?
I am diabetic, so drinking a regular soda is like having a meal, they have about the same amount of carbs. So I drink what imo are good tasting diet sodas.
Also, I prefer sodas to water in most cases because I have a sorta sensitive stomach, and you can never tell how water will be from one place to another, whereas soda is generally the same, and part of what you are paying for is that sameness, to taste the ’sacred formula’.
Well, I dont drink much soda anyway, but my reasoning is that you can exercise to burn off the empty calories. But there ain’t much you can do about the crap they put in diet sodas. That stuff sticks around like luggage.
I wish that I couldn’t tell the difference. My mom drinks diet pop (because she’s kinda sensative to sugar), and I can always taste a different aftertaste when I drink hers. I’ve drinken too much non-diet pop by now to truly enjoy the diet ones the same way. I know, its bad! But I suppose I’m not as bad as I used to be - when I was working, I was drinking at least 3 pops a day. Now I’m down to not more than 1 a day
I really should look into some of the other options, like slightly fizzy juice and that kinda stuff to see if I can find something I like that’s not as bad for me
You people have to be absolutely nuts if you really think that diet soda is better for you than regular soda. Granted regular soda is not good for you, but diet is even worse for you. Diet soda gets it’s sweetness from aspartame. aspartame is formed from two amino acids which form into a molecule. That is then broken down to include formaldehyde and methanol which by the way, when consumed too much can cause blindness. Now I honestly don’t know anyone who has ever gone blind from drinking diet soda, but hey, I’m not gonna take my chances. I’d rather be two ounces fatter than you than blind. Not only than, there are many common side effects from drinking diet soda. headaches, dizziness, or fuzzythinking. How do I know all this? My mother is a dietician. And besides, not to put anyone down, but does it really make much sense to go into McDonalds or wherever and order a big mac, large fries, and a diet coke. People who really think that this makes any difference, go right on ahead. Truthfully, I don’t really care what people drink or don’t drink for that matter. It’s your body, you can do with it what you want. Personally, I don’t drink much soda at all, unless maybe if I’m at a restarant, or eatin fast food. In that case, I drink regular soda. And it’s not like drinking one little can of soda is going to make a big difference, unless of course you drink an overabundance of it. But it’s not going to hurt any worse than eating fast food. That’s just like trading the witch for the devil. Go ahead, do what you want, but I’d much rather drink my regular soda than nasty, horrible tastink diet soda and have rotten teeth from all that fake sugar.
It’s not just soda that helps with hunger. Our thirst triggers are too subtle and we think that we’re hungry when we’re really thirsty. It’s not just pop, but water, or any other beverage. Not to mention the fact that soda rots teeth, Americans are eating pounds more of suar a year than they should be already.
kristine-
Not that ur rant wasn’t well articulated, but there are some other issues to consider.
The only reason I personally got into doet sodas was because I was diagnosed diabetic. For a diabetic one little ol regular pop WILL make a difference. It’s like mainlining sugarcane to our nervous system. MANY bad effects.
Also, I’ve never heard of aspartame rotting teeth, it’s the regular pops who do that. Of course that’s it you don’t brush your teeth often and whatnot. Just wanted to sound off a little.
Gatorade is a nice alternative. Give it a try. About half the sugar of pop.
I think diet soda isn’t all that great. My friend be telling me that, at first he didn’t like it, but as he kept drinking more and more, he got use to it. For me, I think both diet and non-diet sodas taste the same, it doesn’t really matter to me what I am paying for…. As long as I get a soda.. But sometimes I much prefer water, helps cleanses your body, unlike soda…..
you are all gay!!!!
I don’t think the risks of nutrasweet are very well known. I mean apertame, (nutrasweet) breaks down into the body as formaldehyde and methanol. Formaldehyde is embalming fluid that in larger amounts is a deadly poison to the nerves, liver, brain, kidneys, and endocrine glands. Methanol leads to blindness. If that doesn’t scare you, the whole reason you are drinking it is because it has less calories, but in lab animals nutrasweet has been shown to stimulate their appetites. Now I know that in smaller amounts it isn’t bad, but when you drink a lot of it… who knows what the long term effects will be.
all soda is bad, bad, bad. if you put a t-bone steak in coca-cola,it will be gone in 2 days, think of what that does to your body. Diet soda is even worse, it can cause lesions on your brain.I dont even understand why people like to drink calories. Drink water,71% of people are chronically dehydrated because they don’t drink enough water.If you want a drink with calories, drink beer!!!!!
I am a 4th year nutrition student, and I believe it is better to drink low-fat milk or fruit juice, to get the nutrients these drinks offer, or just plain water. If you want to drink pop, I personally believe diet is better, as “real’ pop contains nothing but “empty” sugar calories. A super size pop at a fast food restaurant contains several hundred calories. Since in North America, we are facing an obesity epidemic, I think it’s safer to have a diet pop rather than a regular. But of course, everything in moderation! A glass a day will not hurt, but if you’re drinking nothing but pop all day, whether it is diet or regular, you’re going to have health consequences. And by the way, I’ve taken several biochemistry courses, and aspartame does not break down into formaldehyde.
http://www.aspartame.org/aspartame_facts.html
I like them both for the tastes and the cold,acidic carbonation. I guess I’m weird for liking the taste of diets-I dug saccharin and I dig aspartame. The empty calories in nondiet haven’t helped me gain any more weight (always under) and the possible bad effects of diet are so far down in probability as opposed to the other ingredients in both that it’s rediculous to worry about.
I love diet soda. I drink it about six times a day, at least. Other drinks are okay, but I just keep coming back to diet soda. At work, I am always sneaking off to have a break, and to enjoy another can of soda. I find that it relieves stress. And if diet soda makes you go blind, I’ll just drink it until I need glasses.
you shouldnt drink pop period whether its diet or non diet.then you dont have to worry about gaining weight at all because your not taking in all those extra caolries. im 16 and weigh only 96 pounds because i quit drinking pop period for one year and continue not drinking it today. i dont crave pop now and arent intiminated when i see people drink it in front of me.so get heathy and dont drink pop, diet or not. it’ll be worth it in the end!!!!i promise!!!!!-sylvia e.
I have received an e-mail that explains why regular soda is indeed HEALTHIER than diet soda - sorry.
Last October a friend started getting very sick, she had stomach
spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk was a major
chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed she was in so
much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone biopsies and was on 24
various prescription medications.
The doctors could not figure out what was wrong with her. She was
in so much pain, and so sick, she knew she was dying. She put her house,
bank accounts, life insurance etc… in her oldest daughter’s name, and
made sure her younger children were to be with her oldest daughter.
She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to FL
(basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th, I called her
to ask her how one of her tests went, and she said they didn’t find
anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I thought, oh
my….then I recalled an article another friend of mine emailed to me.
I asked her, “Do you drink Diet pop?” She told me “yes .” As a matter
of fact she was getting ready to pop one open that very moment.
I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking all diet sodas; and I
emailed her the following article.
She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me
she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk. She went up the
stairs, and the muscle spasms went away.
She said she didn’t feel 100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me
she was going to her doctors with this article and would call me back
when she returned home. She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is
going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed
artificial sweetener.
In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet
sodas, dying a slow death.
When she arrived in FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill,
and that was a pill for poisoning. She is well on her way to
recovery…..and she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her
life!
If it says “SUGAR FREE,” on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT
IT!!! I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
CONFERENCE on “ASPARTAME” marketed as ‘NutraSweet’, ‘Equal’, and
‘Spoonful’.
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United
States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
lupus, that it was hard to understand what toxin was causing this to be
rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that
subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous. When the temperature of
this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME
converts to Formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes
metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of
fire ants.)
The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple
sclerosis. People were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in
error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where as methanol
toxicity is!
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually
does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its
use, aggravating the lupus to such a degree that it may become
life-threatening. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become
asymptomatic once
taken off diet sodas.
In the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in
reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms
disappear. We’ve seen many cases where vision returned and hearing
improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus.
During a lecture I said “If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal,
Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms; spasms,
shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,
headaches,
tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech,
blurred vision, or memory loss……you probably have ASPARTAME
DISEASE!”
People were jumping up during the lecture saying, “I’ve got some of
these symptoms! Is it reversible?”
Yes! Not drinking diet sodas and keeping an eye out for aspartame on
food labels…..Yes!
We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to me and Dr.
Espisto (one of my colleagues) and said; “Could you tell me why so many
people seem to be coming down with MS?”
During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who
were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is
beyond coincidence!
Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, etc…. IS NOT A DIET PRODUCT! The
Congressional Record states that it makes you crave carbohydrates and
will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells,
particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these products with no
significant increase in exercise, etc…. Dr. Roberts, in his lecture,
stated that he had patients who lost an average of 19 pounds over a
trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that
physicians would believe that they have a patient with retinopathy, when
in fact the symptoms are caused by aspartame. The aspartame drives the
blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss
due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxic
without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it passes the blood
brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain, causing in
diabetics (as well as in patients not suffering from diabetes) various
kinds of brain damage,
seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, rage and
violence. (The Aspartame in thousands of pallets of Diet Coke and Diet
Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be
partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.)
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, e.g. mental
retardation if taken at the time of conception and early pregnancy.
Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should
NOT be given NutraSweet. I can relate different case histories of
children having granmal seizures and other disturbances being on
NutraSweet.
Unfortunately it is not always easy to convince a mother that Aspartame
is to blame for her child’s illness. Only by trial and success will she
be able to warn other mothers to take their children’s health in their
own hands.
Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which
helps in the metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics)
has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA.
For years the FDA has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty
to MONSANTO, who actually owns the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, and
SpoonFul. Yes that’s right !! The flooring company MONSANTO, owns the
artificial sweetener in diet drinks , ASPARTAME. So what do they care if
you live or die using their product, they make flooring !!!!
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS - written by Dr. Russell
Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) and DEFENSE AGAINST
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE - written by Dr. H. J. Roberts also a
diabetic specialist.
These two doctors will be posting a position paper with some case
histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet.
According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians “we
are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this
deadly poison.”
Here is the problem:
There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100
different products. Since this initial hearing, there have been two
subsequent hearings, but to no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug
and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000
products containing this chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!
I assure you, MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame knows how deadly it
is.
Oh good grief! Get a grip! Diet sodas are produced for a reason. There are those that CANNOT have regular soda for whatever reason! I happen to be one of them- a Type 2 Diabetic. It really disgusts me how some people get on their bandwagon and preach about the evils of whatever- when they’ve done the SAME exact thing in the past- How hypocritical?! (Double standards) How self righteous…Go ahead and make a show of it- go on! Suck in those cheek bones and show how piously you all are suffering…that’s all it is…bet ya dollars to doughnuts that you’d swill a diet soda as soon as the last person leaves the line in front of the soda machine!
G. Love
scott taylor shannon who goes to kjh in washington state has three penises and he says md shrinks them is that true??
Not to burst anyone’s bubble but aspartame (found in all diet sodas) do the same thing for your blood sugar and weight gain that normal sodas do and on top of that diet sodas have millions of side effects such as heart, problems and brain tumors.
I used to love regular pop…coke mostly, I drank WAY too much of it…then one day I started drinking diet coke, and now i won’t even TOUCH a regular pop..after about a year of only drinking diet soda, one day I was at someone’s house, who just handed me a regular pop, and i didn’t want to be rude so i just decided to open it and drink it, and well I took a drink of it, it was the most disgusting thing ever…wayyyy too sweet…I don’t know how I ever used yo managed to drink it!! lol…I think it just depends on what you get used to…alot of people don’t care about the empty calories because they’re people who have really fast metabolism’s and just dont’ have to worry about it! I used to love regular pop…coke mostly, I drank WAY too much of it…then one day I started drinking diet coke, and now i won’t even TOUCH a regular pop..after about a year of only drinking diet soda, one day I was at someone’s house, who just handed me a regular pop, and i didn’t want to be rude so i just decided to open it and drink it, and well I took a drink of it, it was the most disgusting thing ever…wayyyy too sweet…I don’t know how I ever used yo managed to drink it!! lol…I think it just depends on what you get used to…alot of people don’t care about the empty calories because they’re people who have really fast metabolism’s and just dont’ have to worry about it! <3
I used to love regular pop…coke mostly, I drank WAY too much of it…then one day I started drinking diet coke, and now i won’t even TOUCH a regular pop..after about a year of only drinking diet soda, one day I was at someone’s house, who just handed me a regular pop, and i didn’t want to be rude so i just decided to open it and drink it, and well I took a drink of it, it was the most disgusting thing ever…wayyyy too sweet…I don’t know how I ever used yo managed to drink it!! lol…I think it just depends on what you get used to…alot of people don’t care about the empty calories because they’re people who have really fast metabolism’s and just dont’ have to worry about it! I used to love regular pop…coke mostly, I drank WAY too much of it…then one day I started drinking diet coke, and now i won’t even TOUCH a regular pop..after about a year of only drinking diet soda, one day I was at someone’s house, who just handed me a regular pop, and i didn’t want to be rude so i just decided to open it and drink it, and well I took a drink of it, it was the most disgusting thing ever…wayyyy too sweet…I don’t know how I ever used yo managed to drink it!! lol…I think it just depends on what you get used to…alot of people don’t care about the empty calories because they’re people who have really fast metabolism’s and just dont’ have to worry about it! <3
In this amazing world, Brown, A&W and the Birch Beer company now make Diet versions of their root beer, cream soda, black cherry and other flavors… So lovely… the way I see the debate is this: regular soda can give you diabetes and obesity. Diet soda can give you brain problems. Damned if you do either…As for the “Coke rots your teeth” story… Yes, it does… but slowly… after all stick a tooth in the stomach acid in your stomach and I’ll bet you that tooth melts just as fast, if not faster. As for the coke going down and smiting your digestive tract, imageine puking up all that acid chyme… fun fun. same effect.
Read this string of posts with interest. What is considered “chronic use” of aspartame? the websites I’ve been on all talk about chronic use in regard to the problems that can occur with ingestion. I drink about 1-2 regular Cokes a day, but since trying the South Beach Diet, switched to 1 diet soda per day. Given this info- which would I be better off drinking? Once off the diet, should I go back to my 1 regular Coke a day or the Diet? I exercise pretty regularly, so I don’t expect the “empty calories” in the regular to get the best of me in terms of weight gain.
I don’t quite understand the whole 6-8 sodas a day stuff- WOW. Sounds to me as if your body is screaming for good ole H2O, but you aren’t listening!
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp
http://www.aspartame.net/media/opinion/op_aspint.html
You’re E-mail that you have taken as truth is a known hoax chain letter. There are no links between aspartame and health risks described on these posts.
The only bad thing about Diet pop is that caffiene is a de-hydrating ingredient. Diet pop might also cause your body to retain more fluids. Neither of these are serious. But, you should drink water in addition to diet sodas on a daily basis.
The consumption of both diet and regular soda introduce large obstacles to physical health. Regular soda makes you more fat. Diet soda poisons you with aspartame and may weaken your bones due to excess phosphourous. Also, unfiltered tap water is poisonous as well (flouride and chlorine). (=
I used to drink regular cokes all the time at school and stuff. But we’ve never had regular cokes at home, all we’ve ever had was diet coke. So I would just drink them even though I didn’t like them, it was the closest thing to coke. Now diet coke is all I drink. Regular is WAY to sweet for me and diet coke tastes GREAT and there are NO calories!! There’s no question which you should drink.
Hey! I have an idea! How about all you idiots who are just hurting your bodies by drinking pop have some WATER! Now there is a beverage you don’t have to question… and for all of you complaining about how regular pop is too sugary and how diet pop has no calories… water is neither! There you go. Case closed. Problem SOLVED.
its not pop its soda
All I know is that I switched from regular soda to Diet soda and I lost 20lbs. I didn’t do anything different, no extra exercise. (of course I drink alot of soda) But now I can’t drink regular soda. The sugar level is just to much and it’s way to thick. I’m slowly transitioning myself to water. Diet Soda is nice, but I need to drink something better.
Regarding the aspertame,diet,& non-diet drinks,the alternative is flavored water containing splenda,being a type 2 diabetic I was told that is the safe thing to take Fran
Where can “Stevia (the sweet herb) be purchased?Is it on the market? Fran
Would the natural food store carry Stevia” which is a sweet herb? Is there any diabetics that know about this product and where it can be purchased? Fran
The acid and caffeine as well as the artificial sweetner or sugar in soda is not healthy. Have you ever noticed that when you drink coffee in a nice restaurant, that they serve a little glass of water with it? That is because the caffeine in coffee dehydrates the body. The water is to help the body rehydrate. With soda, diet or non-diet, it’s the same thing. With de-caffeinated diet soda you’re pretty much just drinking brown water with a few dubious additives. If you still crave the taste of soda but want remain healthy, try giving your body what it needs - vitamins, minerals and water that is not rendered useless by caffeine, sugar or other chemicals. Try carbonated mineral water mixed with fruit juice. You can make your own tropical fruit, apple or orange soda. You still feel like you are drinking soda, because it’s carbonated but you get the benefits of mineralized water and the vitamins in fruit juice. If you want to avoid sugar, you can slowly reduce the amount of juice you add to the water until you get used to drinking plain water. Non-carbonated mineral water is better than carbonated water but it does’t give you the feeling of drinking soda. I live in Germany and here, there are more varieties of mineral water (and beer, for that matter) than soda. Hard to imagine, isn’t it?
Ok listen up!!! For every 3 grams of sugar in soda it is equal to one tsp of real sugar. Figure it out a regular soda has 39 g of sugar and 39 g of total carbs that is equal to 78 grams of sugar. That is equal to 26 tsp of sugar. So you don’t think 26 tsp of sugar won’t hurt you? I’ll take my chances with the diet soda.
I have a Question I need answered by tonight!!!!!
I did a poject on Regular pepsi vs. Diet pepsi and which would decay teeth faster..But what I dont understand is How is a low level of acid in diet pop worse for your teeth than higher level of acid?? Please EMAIL ME at ardenlarry@sympatico.ca
Thanks
OK, what’s the reason for drinking regular pop? Hmmm, because it tastes better?
If you’re on a diet, you shouldn’t be drinking ANY type of pop, diet or otherwise. Try water. It’s infinitely better for you. You don’t lose weight by pumping manufactured chemicals into your body.
I BELIEVE that Diet pop still has High fructose corn syrup in it (could be wrong). In any case, I digress.
People drink regular pop because it TASTES good. I’ve been drinking pop my whole life, and lots of it (I’m 20). The thing is that I’m not a fat slob. I don’t sit on my ass and get fat and then sue the companies who manufacture the food or drink I CHOSE to consume.
I exercise every day. AND I drink regular pop. I’m as fit and lean as a 20-year-old should be.
—Kris
Kris,
You sound like a wonderful person. You have so much to teach us all.
ALL OF YA ARE A BUNCH OF FRUITS
UR ALL GAY
so then does diet soda make u gain weight? even if u crave carbs but u dont eat them , in the long run would u still gain weight?
Hello,
all ur entries are interesting but i don’t know who to believe! At first i read the long chain letter thing and was like “WOAH!” yeah i have to stop but then i read later that someone sed they were all hoxes or sumthin. Well, heres my deal, i DO drink water too for all u ppl saying WatEr! WatEr! and i always try to drink as much water as i can but i also drink a LOT of diet pop too. the brand i like is Diet Rite ( no caffiene or aspartame so Ha!) and i think this is actually and ok one but im not sure. well the thing is i drink a lot of both water and diet pop , usually adding up to about 10 glasses when added both drink together. usually more pop than water but hey.. so since i drink SO much i would really like to know the staight facts ,, is diet pop really that bad for u cuz it would be so hard to give up but i have to know!
One word……………………………..FIZZ………………………………It doesn’t matter if it’s diet or regular soda or even if it’s fizzy flavored water, the one for sure thing is that the little fizzies hold toxins in your body and make you bloat up, leaving you unhealthy and bloated. I love pepsi but try to drink mostly water. I never drink carbonated drinks with a meal, only water. Food digests healthy that way and you can actually loose weight.
~Everything in moderation.
Just recently it has been proven that diet causes cancer…
I thaught of a great add:
Diet Coke, Cancer in a can
Just recently it has been proven that diet causes cancer…
I thaught of a great add:
Diet Coke, Cancer in a can
i havent had pop in a while and i just got back from tops with a two liter of diet vanilla coke, and i havent had anything non diet in a long time
i drank half the bottle and then thought, am i sure this doesnt add calories? well obviously it doesnt but i checked it out online and now im finding out about it being a carcenogen and it has aspartame and all this other stuff
soda pop is a huge stress reliever for me to drink, and i lost 44 lbs in the past couple months, but in truth drinking diet is like smoking cigarrettes, you get a buzz but screw up ur body
i then tried substituting my cravings with that crystal lite stuff, and sams choice flavored water, and they ended up having aspartame and other bad chemicals too!
im just gunna try water and skim milk now, thank u everyone for ur thoughts on this site, it really helped me and will help me be healthier, now if ull excuse me, i have to clean out my fridge from diet soda
Thanks for the links. I have humor blog but I a putting a link your post and the snopes link on aspartame. Is the sugar industrial complex sending out hoax emails about aspartame or is the stuff poison. I dont’ know but I drink gallons or diet coke and diet pepsi. I can’t drink the “heavy” versions.
Wow, what a collection of comments! Ok, here is my take:
Back when I was a kid my mom started giving us diet soda. I was a little chubby and at the time nutrasweet hadn’t come out, it was just sacharine. Eventually nutrasweet came out, which tasted better. I was thoroughly used to the taste and I couldn’t even have regular soda because it tasted too sweet. I continued to drink diet soda until about 3.5 years ago after starting a low-carb plan that emphasized whole foods. The plan, Protein Power, has a lot of great info on all the artificial sweeteners, their POSSIBLE dangers, etc. The recommendation is if you use any of these to use Stevia if you can find it, or Splenda, which doesn’t seem to have any problems yet, but then we just don’t have large longer-term studies to prove one way or the other. The problem with both Aspartame (which has a lot of anecdotal problems reported) as well as Splenda, is that they were fast-tracked through the FDA without doing very careful analysis of potential problems.
Regular soda, at least from the big companies like Coke and Pepsi, are no better for your health (or worse) than diet. They each have their own potential problems. Most mainstream brands use high-fructose corn syrup which is particularly dangerous, much more so that just plain old sucrose, due to how it goes directly into the cells without needing insulin to regulate it’s content in the blood. I’m not a biochemist by I think it basically forces itself into the cell and so doesn’t increase blood sugar, but can cause other problems.
But whether it’s diet or regular, you have all the compounds these things share, various artificial flavors, preservatives, etc. Plus the phosphoric acid in these has been linked to bone loss and the carbination itself, mentioned above as a “toxin” because it makes you bloated, is also bad for you, but not because of bloating, but because of also potential bone loss. Basically the CO2 is a toxin that your body must get rid of - you breath CO2 out. But once you ingest it, your body can only breath out some, the rest needs to be dealt with in some other way, and what the body does is it breaks it down and combines it with calcium to form calcium carbonate which can then be excreted. But it needs to get this calcium somewhere and so the calcium in bones is one potential source. If you get enough calcium it may not be a huge issue, but otherwise the body has to rob peter to pay paul.
My main thought is this. Why try to pick which is the lesser evil between the two? They are both pretty bad. Occasionally I will have a diet soda, but it is always a diet rite, which has Splenda. But by occasionally I mean maybe once a month or two. I think that frequency is small enough to where it’s not going to do any lasting damage. If you don’t like the taste of diet (although sucralose tends to have a less artificial taste than aspartame), or don’t want to risk the potential dangers in even sucralose, then go find one of these sodas at a natural foods store like Whole Foods which has as few chemicals as possible and regular sugar as opposed to HFCS. But I wouldn’t drink these things even so on a regular basis. It’s not so much about “empty calories” because for some people whose metabolism is fast enough or who exercise enough to where it doesn’t matter, well, they can afford those extra calories. They are only “empty” in the micronutritional sense that they don’t come along with lots of vitamins and minerals, but they still are used by the body. For me, that’s not the issue, it’s more an issue of an excess of sugar in general increasing insulin levels that eventually lead to a whole host of problems including diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc. Those in their teens and twenties probably are dismissive of all of this because their bodies are young enough to where they are not affected by it yet, or at least a lot aren’t. Once you reach even your 30’s, your body is a lot less forgiving and you begin to reap what you’ve sowed. But it’s the age old thing where people mock their elders for warning them of consequences but then once they reach the same age they think, damn, why didn’t I listen to them, they were actually giving me good advice. I guess it’s just human nature to not listen when you’re young because you need to learn the lessons yourself. Or else it’s just Western culture that puts less emphasis on respecting elders, I don’t know. In any case, whether you’re old or young, it’s up to you to take care of your body. I think this society loves to blame and litigate everything, but in the end it is your personal responsibility to educate yourself about what is healthy to eat, and then your responsibility to make the choice whether to eat it or not. If you don’t and suffer the consequences, you really only have yourself to blame…
i dont kno how old this thread is, or if anyone still reads it but i’ll give it a go
I will drink either regular or diet soft drink (yes, we call it soft drink here) but if i have a choice, I will choose diet, simply cos theres about 700kj (175cal) less in it.
And all these ppl saying that diet sodas give you cancer and brain tumors and whatever, this obviously isn’t a proven scientific fact, or it would be illegal to sell these drinks!
if one more persons says the word POP, i’m gonna kill myself.
it’s called a fucking SODA people!
Why does everyone (mostly everyone) think that all diet soda drinkers are in it for the less calories and health benefits? I personally just love the taste of Diet Coke. I don’t like any other sodas. I’m underweight as it is, so regular soda wouldn’t hurt, but I don’t like it.
Hey dave, what does it matter if peeps say POP or SODA???? I mean really, does it matter so much that you have to get on here and post your foul mouth? Geez, get a grip, Grab a POP and shut up!!!!
I’m also Type 2 diabetic. I recently researched Aspartame, the sweetning aditive in products labeled DIET.
After my search . I now drink regular soda if any.
You check iy out and make you decision.
I personaly feel that after extensive consumption of Aspartame , based on a “sandpile” effect. Could contribute towards the highest cancer rate in the world of wich we have..
“be happy and content:.
Tomy
Trying to see whether Sweet and Low or Equal is better for you? Which would you recommend…the whole aspartame breakdown kind of scares me…blindness and the problems associated with it
“I’m also Type 2 diabetic. I recently researched Aspartame, the sweetning aditive in products labeled DIET.
After my search . I now drink regular soda if any.”
you are kidding, right? it would take quite A LOT of diet soda to harm you, but you would rather DEFINITELY perpetuate your diabetes by consuming regular soda? where is the logic? drink WATER. geez.
I hard that diet soda has something in it that can cause camcer…I don’t know though.
To Emily, who stated: “And all these ppl saying that diet sodas give you cancer and brain tumors and whatever, this obviously isn’t a proven scientific fact, or it would be illegal to sell these drinks!”,
What about cigarettes and alcohol? They have been proven to cause deadly cancers and they are still legal!
-and for the record, I only drink water and skim milk.
hello! school sux! iam only 14 but i still feel like my opinion matters/1 thanx 4 listening! bye!
im sure everyone knows that drinking soda in general, diet or not is exstreamly bad for the human body. So i thought i mention that soda consumption is probubly a leading cause of austioporosis,diabeties, and obesity. Just think that for every 12 ounces of soda consumed, it will deplete so much calcium in the body that it takes about 40 glasses of milk to replace. Not to mention the human body wont produce any calcium after the age of about 20. You might be in a world of hurt down the road if you keep consuming it.Plus if your not contributing to the american epidemic of obesity your probubly getting addicted to the aspartame in the diet stuff.So we all know the simple solution to all these problems and how to stop all this bitching and complaining. DONT FUCKING DRINK IT!!!!!