Diet Soda Will Kill You

[Lewis]

Is diet soda a smart way to save calories?
It's the perennial question: How bad is that concoction of chemicals and coloring in your favorite diet soft drink? Is it a harmless alternative when you're trying to control calories?


The jury is still out, but a new long-term study of heart health suggests diet beverage consumption, along with overall diet, may contribute to your risk of developing metabolic syndrome. The list of health problems metabolic syndrome can cause is long and scary. It doubles a your risk of heart attack and stroke, and contributes to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, asthma, and even some forms of cancer.


Diet soda pros and cons
The latest research, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed the dietary patterns of 4,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 30. The study began in the mid-1980s, and over a 20-year period, 827 participants developed metabolic syndrome. The researchers discovered that those who drank diet soda were more likely than those who didn't to develop the condition.


There was one caveat: A healthy diet may help mitigate some of the effects of diet soda. Over 20 years, 20% of the men and women who followed a "prudent" diet (one rich with fruit, vegetables, whole grains, milk, nuts, and seeds) and drank diet soda developed metabolic syndrome, compared with 18% of those who followed the same eating style but didn't sip diet soft drinks. Most at risk were those adhering to a "Western" diet of fast food, meat, pizza, and snacks, all washed down with diet soda. By the end of the study, 32% of those folks had developed metabolic syndrome.


Metabolic Syndrome: Could you have it?
What it means for you: If you love a soda now and then, do a quick whole-health inventory before cracking one open. Make sure you're not doing anything else that could potentially boost your blood pressure, blood sugar, waist size, triglycerides, or cholesterol (the cluster of factors that make up metabolic syndrome). If you're diet is healthy -- 100% whole grains; healthy fats from olive and canola oils, and nuts; low- or fat-fat dairy; lots of fish; loads of fruit and veggies; and as little red meat, saturated fat, and refined sugar as possible -- an occasional diet soft drink won't do much to raise your risk of metabolic syndrome.


10 sneaky diet busters that halt your weight loss
But for an everyday low-cal pick-me-up, consider tea or coffee. Hot or iced, both are overflowing with heart-healthy antioxidants. And of course, for the ultimate in thirst quenching, nothing beats water.

 

[handy]

Diet soda's... and even those colored sugar-substitute packages are bad, bad, stuff.

If anyone is prone to migraine, keep far away from fake sugar.

I drink pop several times a week, it's always Pepsi and never diet. Mostly, I drink sweet Iced tea which I make with plain old ordinary sugar. There's no where near as much sugar in a glass of iced tea (2tsp) as opposed to soda pop (around 10-12 tsps).
For an even lighter flavored drink, I place a bunch of freshly chopped up fruit into a pitcher, add water, leave in the fridge overnight and have a refreshing yet still almost zero calorie beverage. My favorite combination is watermelons and kiwi. It's a subtle flavor, but really refreshing. Another quick, but low calorie drink is simply ice water with a teaspoon of lemon juice and a teaspoon of sugar in it. A teaspoon of sugar is only 16 calories. Those 16 calories aren't going to hurt you anywhere neat as much as diet drinks...

ARE YOU LISTENING MR. "DIET COKE" MIKE?

 

[Hammer]

Summer 2011 I switched from regular to diet soda, not because of calories but because sugar is otherwise bad for you. Right? I've had a stable weight, and without any other conscious change in my diet, I started gaining weight. I concluded that the diet soda made me hungrier, causing me to eat more than the calories I saved with the diet version of soda.

 

[handy]

I think it's a real misperception that sugar is bad for you anyway.

Sure, a whole lot of sugar is bad for you, just like a whole lot of anything is.

But, unless one is a real soda fanatic, drinking lot's and lot's of soda each and every day... it's probably not sugar that's doing a number on you... it's starches that come from the high carbohydrate diet that many American's eat... potatoes, corn, breads, pastas, etc. etc.... that's what really pumps the blood sugars up...

 

[taikina]

the only solution to one drinking soda every week or, for goodness sake every day, is to drink less. my fave is dr pepper and there not even a light version of that. sure when i drank energy drinks every day i tried to balance it out by having a light version every now and then, but cmon, what good will that do?

this ploy has been working good until now, giving people "good options, good alternatives" to keep them buying this stuff. people are just more sceptical and info flows faster. why not make a tasty drink that is actually not unhealthy? oh yeah, that would cost more money.

 

[Mike]

Doesn't this violate the policy on conspiracy theories? ;)

Rumor, speculation and innuendo... I stopped reading early on when it said, "The jury is still out...". [yawn] The Diet Coke franchise isn't interested in making money or dominating the soft drink market. All they want to do is make me happy. So, you haters of happiness can stop with your destruction of Diet Coke's mission to make me happy.

Here is the way it goes: - - > - - > You need how that works? Just drink Diet Coke, and let them make you happy too. :yes

 

[taikina]

Doesn't this violate the policy on conspiracy theories? ;)

Rumor, speculation and innuendo... I stopped reading early on when it said, "The jury is still out...". [yawn] The Diet Coke franchise isn't interested in making money or dominating the soft drink market. All they want to do is make me happy. So, you haters of happiness can stop with your destruction of Diet Coke's mission to make me happy.

Here is the way it goes: - - > - - > You need how that works? Just drink Diet Coke, and let them make you happy too. :yes

THEY BRAINWASH U MANN!!1

but seriously, i disagree. you're right though, it is a conspiracy. just the boring kind: not very outlandish or fantastical or very conspiratory, but real.

 

[Theodore A. Jones]

Is diet soda a smart way to save calories?
It's the perennial question: How bad is that concoction of chemicals and coloring in your favorite diet soft drink? Is it a harmless alternative when you're trying to control calories?


The jury is still out, but a new long-term study of heart health suggests diet beverage consumption, along with overall diet, may contribute to your risk of developing metabolic syndrome. The list of health problems metabolic syndrome can cause is long and scary. It doubles a your risk of heart attack and stroke, and contributes to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, asthma, and even some forms of cancer.


Diet soda pros and cons
The latest research, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed the dietary patterns of 4,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 30. The study began in the mid-1980s, and over a 20-year period, 827 participants developed metabolic syndrome. The researchers discovered that those who drank diet soda were more likely than those who didn't to develop the condition.


There was one caveat: A healthy diet may help mitigate some of the effects of diet soda. Over 20 years, 20% of the men and women who followed a "prudent" diet (one rich with fruit, vegetables, whole grains, milk, nuts, and seeds) and drank diet soda developed metabolic syndrome, compared with 18% of those who followed the same eating style but didn't sip diet soft drinks. Most at risk were those adhering to a "Western" diet of fast food, meat, pizza, and snacks, all washed down with diet soda. By the end of the study, 32% of those folks had developed metabolic syndrome.


Metabolic Syndrome: Could you have it?
What it means for you: If you love a soda now and then, do a quick whole-health inventory before cracking one open. Make sure you're not doing anything else that could potentially boost your blood pressure, blood sugar, waist size, triglycerides, or cholesterol (the cluster of factors that make up metabolic syndrome). If you're diet is healthy -- 100% whole grains; healthy fats from olive and canola oils, and nuts; low- or fat-fat dairy; lots of fish; loads of fruit and veggies; and as little red meat, saturated fat, and refined sugar as possible -- an occasional diet soft drink won't do much to raise your risk of metabolic syndrome.


10 sneaky diet busters that halt your weight loss
But for an everyday low-cal pick-me-up, consider tea or coffee. Hot or iced, both are overflowing with heart-healthy antioxidants. And of course, for the ultimate in thirst quenching, nothing beats water.

"Diet soda will kill you" so will stepping off the curb in front of an on coming bus. It is not what a man eats or drinks that defiles him. It is what comes out of him. JC AD 33

 

[tim-from-pa]

"Diet soda will kill you" so will stepping off the curb in front of an on coming bus. It is not what a man eats or drinks that defiles him. It is what comes out of him. JC AD 33

Well, I think Lewis is coming from a pragmatic end stating the physical effects. Nobody's talking Kosher vs spirituality, and the "JC" quote is not really relevant here.

 

[jasoncran]

i couldnt afford to eat kosher.i inquired on that.

 

[Theodore A. Jones]

Well, I think Lewis is coming from a pragmatic end stating the physical effects. Nobody's talking Kosher vs spirituality, and the "JC" quote is not really relevant here.

Drive a nail through the elbow that bends for the hand to reach your mouth with the drink. Just because it is made and sold you really do not have any excuse for bending that elbow. Do you?
"Meaningless meaningless a chasing after the wind." Solomon the king.

 

[Tgalwk]

Um, diet soda taste gross to me so you don't have to worry about me dying from drinking it, I sure don' and won't...smile. Some Dr.'s do encourage their diabetic patients to drink it too.