No more diet Coke for me
 

I knew it was pretty bad for me, but after reading this, I'm going to cut out my one can per day habit. No mas!

Diet soda is doing these 7 awful things to your body - TODAY Health

Yikes! Thankfully I don't indulge in that rat pizz.

Good for you, I am estatic another person gives up diet anything.

The sweetner in diet stuff is usually aspartame, its toxic to human consumption. it is also in Nutrasweet and Splenda.

If you don't believe me google aspartame.

Another dooping from our good ol' FDA.

If you got to drink soda drink regular Coke, at least it has sugar and plenty of it. Better yet don't drink any soda, your body and mind will thank you.

Sugar, or high fructose corn syrup? I believe it makes a difference.

I've cut way back from multiple large Coke zero a day.. Right now it's one or two a week. Drinking coffee and tea now...

dropping sodas will also lower your blood pressure.

Nah.... My customers are making sure it stays up there....

yeah there's no getting away from that.

Ya.... My job would be great.... If I didn't have to deal with customers.

porsche4life, maybe its time for some of that herbal stuff that you can get here in this state on a medical prescription.

I saw this a while ago and it really sums it up. Food (and drink) should be made in a kitchen, not a lab.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...ewDesign-1.jpg

There is no aspertame in Splenda. Totaly different process in manufacturing.

There are very very few commercial soft drinks that don't contain aspertame. The only one that I have found that is made with Splenda is Nestea Zero.

I switched to regular Coke about a month ago.

Diet Coke is my fav of all time..I've been caffeine free again for about three months , except for DC when I'm at a bar..Since I don't drink its the only thing I like when in a drinking environment.. Why caffeine free now; sometimes when I eat home a couple days in a row, I start getting the headache..I'll be like , why is my head hurting ?, oh, I haven't had caffeine in a couple days.Then I'll quit, have a headache for two more days , and be normal again...
I figure anything that effects your body that bad, can't be good

My body fluid contains at least.....99% of this:

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...YefGci6_JTN4kQ

tldr; saw the headline on fark - it mentioned one of the 7 was getting you drunk quicker/easier, so it should really be 6 things....

Just showed this to my wife.. She laughed and said none if it was true.






p.s. She works for Coke..

try tai chi

Soda pop is nasty to me. Barley pop, well that is just fine.

Mexican Coke has real sugar in it, as does the Dr Pepper you can get near where they ostensibly invented it in Texas. Most soda pop has HFCS

A wee bit hard when you hit the hotel room at 8pm with two hours of emails to send, and the phone calls start rolling in at 7 the next morning....

aspartame would not be approved if Donald Rumsfeld hadn't influenced the FDA Chair through his prior relationships during the Reagan administrations.

It's amazing the **** that americans will put in their bodies.

How Aspartame Became Legal - The Timeline

I started drinking PowerAde Zero a few years ago. I haven't had pop, regular or diet in over 5 years. Liver issues... No HFCS for me!

I never drink soda, always water, but I do put Sweet and Low in my coffee. Guess I better stop that.

Diet Rite is made with Splenda.

Also, check the label on the store brand drinks. They are private labels but made usually by the same national brands, so you can find some that are aspartame free. In the southeast, a chain known as Ingles has store brand diet soda made with Splenda.

The Food Lion chain recently changed from a Splenda formula to the Aspartame formula.

Much of the FDA board is composed of corporate reps, and food safety is mostly "self-regulated".

Some of the 'boutique' diet sodas are also sweetened with Stevia now, or a blend of sugar, honey and/or stevia.

We primarily make our own spritzers/sodas with sparkling mineral water and real juice (cranberry, pomegranate, cherry, blueberry, lemonade, etc.) Total control over the sugar content and flavor strength that way, plus I'm sure healthier and cheaper than the mass-produced sodas.

Thanks, but I'm in Canada :)

SodaStream (make your own sodas) uses Splenda

Brawndo - it's got electrolytes.

90% of my soft drink consumption is mixed with good Guyanese rum. Great rums I will drink neat but good rums need a splash of Coke imho. I would never - repeat never - think of using a Diet Coke for that splash. I would use Pepsi before I would stoop to a Diet or a Zero or any of the Coke variants. :D

Ian

gave p soda almost 10 years ago total cold turkey after drinking 2-3 cans of coke for years. I dont miss it at all and now drink so much water I can tell differences between waters just by taste, I work with a guy that drinks diet coke all day and was up to 8-10 a day at one point. His dentist told him to stop as his enamel was wearing off his teeth

The tooth issue is with all pops not just diet