ThatStupidLion
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clear cut answer. yes - it will contribute to your untimely death.
It's my favorite and I have 2L/wk. Even then I feel it's too much...have you had cream soda before? Finding a diet version of it was a holy grail for me and i finally found it. It tastes so good
let me just pull out my science calculator.
"beep, boop, beep, boop"
according to my calculations, you should be fine. except for that cancer that aspertame causes you should be fine.
The only evidence of an artificial sweetener effecting gut flora I've seen is one study that tested saccharin.Did my master's thesis on this very subject- Aspartame does not cause cancer unless ingested in ridiculous proportions (as in, 100 cans/day).
However, there does seem to be mounting evidence that it affects gut flora, which *may* present an issue.
Sodium for one. Two, anything in that much excess will be harmful. Just drink water and seen yourself off of it.
Drinking NOTHING but dark cola is bad for you. Your kidneys need water and all that caffeine just keeps you dehydrated.
The sweetner? Don't know. Never been proven in Humans. But be nice to your kidneys. Right now you are fucking them up.
I drank 1.5 litres of full-sugar soda a day from the ages of 11 to 21.
I can tell you from a decade of experience that Diet is better for your health (in terms of how you feel), specifically your weight. However it's worse for your teeth. Drinking Diet Sodas has cost me over 15k in dental fees, money I don't really have. I will lose all of my teeth to this addiction. I've already lost 3 and I'm only in my early 30s.
These days I have a Diet Coke/Ginger Ale/Dr. Pepper whatever for breakfast, one with lunch, two with dinner and one in bed. That's a solid reduction from what I used to be.
When I was around 25, I tried to quit sodas. I rid my house of them. I used to get up at 4am in the morning and drive half an hour to get them anyway. I knew if I didn't have one I wouldn't sleep or function the next day. I need a soda in me to get to sleep.
Hell of a drug, really. By contrast I've been smoking every so often for 15 years but have never gotten addicted at all, and take 3 month long breaks from it all the time without even realising.
It took 1.5 pages for this.I'll rectify this issue:
But in all seriousness, cut out the soda man, even "diet" soda is terrible for you. I cut out all soda years ago and I have zero regrets.
This is the biggest misconception surrounding diabetes. Sugar alone does not cause diabetes. Overeating and eating unhealthy crap all the time does.
I drank 1.5 litres of full-sugar soda a day from the ages of 11 to 21.
I can tell you from a decade of experience that Diet is better for your health (in terms of how you feel), specifically your weight. However it's worse for your teeth. Drinking Diet Sodas has cost me over 15k in dental fees, money I don't really have. I will lose all of my teeth to this addiction. I've already lost 3 and I'm only in my early 30s.
These days I have a Diet Coke/Ginger Ale/Dr. Pepper whatever for breakfast, one with lunch, two with dinner and one in bed. That's a solid reduction from what I used to be.
When I was around 25, I tried to quit sodas. I rid my house of them. I used to get up at 4am in the morning and drive half an hour to get them anyway. I knew if I didn't have one I wouldn't sleep or function the next day. I need a soda in me to get to sleep.
Hell of a drug, really. By contrast I've been smoking every so often for 15 years but have never gotten addicted at all, and take 3 month long breaks from it all the time without even realising.
Indeed and that's just type 2. I got type 1 at the age of 18 when I was a picture of health, eating well getting plenty of exercise. It's an autoimmune disease and it just happens. Yet the amount of people I have met that assume I must have brought it upon myself. It feels awesome to have an incurable illness that without daily injections will kill me and have people blame me for it.
No it hasn't, not in humans anyway. The study with mice involved an extreme amount of aspartame, when adjusted by mass it was way more than what a human could ingest in a day.
Ive always wondered if tea was bad for you? I don't drink carbonated stuff very often, but I drink a lot of tea
Ive always wondered if tea was bad for you? I don't drink carbonated stuff very often, but I drink a lot of tea
Ive always wondered if tea was bad for you? I don't drink carbonated stuff very often, but I drink a lot of tea
Yep, you'll die of water toxicity waaay before the aspartame can do anything to youI like to counter some anecdotes in here, by spewing out my own. I used to drink about one 20oz bottle of Diet Coke per day, and sometimes a bit more. I cut diet soda out of my diet for 2 or 3 years recently, and I noticed no change in how I felt or my health. Take that! My datum can beat up your datum!
From what I remember, the dosage given to the rats was 1 gram per kilogram of body weight. A paper clip is about 1 gram. Google says a 12 ounce can of Diet Coke has .192 grams of aspartame. Let's say you have a 160lb male, which is about 72 kilograms. 5.2 12 ounce cans of DC has 1 gram of aspartame.
So a 160lb male would have to drink 375 12 ounce cans of Diet Coke, in a short period of time, to get the same dosage of aspartame that the rats received. That's 35 gallons.
It ain't gonna kill you but you run a higher risk of diabetes (which can kill you) and I guarantee you're ruining your teeth at least. I drink one bottle of Mexican Coke a week.
These days I have a Diet Coke/Ginger Ale/Dr. Pepper whatever for breakfast, one with lunch, two with dinner and one in bed. That's a solid reduction from what I used to be.
This is the biggest misconception surrounding diabetes. Sugar alone does not cause diabetes. Overeating and eating unhealthy crap all the time does.
Meta studies actually have proven the saftey of artificial sweeteners.Diet soda has been a long debated thing. The truth is no one is really sure. Pretty much all the studies done aren't clear and studies have produced various results.
Lol at the people acting like OP is going to get diabetes and his teeth are going to rot out of his face from 1 liter of DIET soda a day.
That's a little less than 3 cans worth of a 0 sugar drink. You're worse off drinking 2 glasses of orange juice.
People are probably more worried about the acid in the soda ruining the enamel of his teeth, not the sugar content.
I use those low cal flavor packets, but sparkling water could work.Is propel a good alternative? I was going to try switching from soda to propel flavored water but I thought I read somewhere that's not even that good for you. :S
Yeah, and most kind of fruit juices are about as/more acidic than diet soda.
A glass of orange juice with every meal is overall worse for you than a liter of diet soda a day.