The Truth About Diet Soda on Yahoo! Health

1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 5:58 pm PST

Diet soda does me plenty of good, because it keeps me from guzzling corn syrup sweetened garbage all day. Aside from the 6+ cans I drink a day, I also take in an average of 3 quarts of Stevia Sweetened Iced tea. Would I be better off drinking water? Probably. But I don't like water. And as I say to everyone who lectures me about my terrible, terrible, chain drinking Coke Zero vice- I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke, I don't eat sweets, and I very rarely touch fried foods, and I really don't care that we don't know the long term effects of Stevia and Splenda are. If this is the worst thing I do to myself, then I'm usually better off than they are, since the lectures usually come from alcoholic smokers or fast food addicts.

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 12:04 am PST

Aspartame *might* be a dangerous, harmful chemical? What rock does the writer live under. The stuff is poison. Drink water. Search Searle Rumsfeld Aspartame and read a bit. Search, some of the links are quacky, but others are not.

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 3:36 am PST

I look at people drinking Diet Soda. They are all fat. Give me the real thing, I'm not overly fat. I limit my Real Thing.

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 5:47 am PST

I drink 2-3 16 oz. of diet soda a day and have had a big memory loss and headaches I heard about the diet soda problem but never gave it any thought i work out alot and now I will stop the diet soda and see what the results are Thanks for the info

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 12:36 pm PST

Very good information to know. Thanks for the posting !!!!

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 1:20 pm PST

I just love sloppy journalism. The article brings up studies on artificial sweeteners that were done in the early 1970's where rats were fed 5000 times the amount of sweetener, and there was "possibly" a link to the development of tumors in these rats. Well, for one, that was not ever in fact proven (or they would have banned this from all food use and products sold in the USA and they haven't, and for two, let's make a human being eat 5,000 times the amount of ANYTHING and tell me that it isn't going to have an adverse effect!!! What a bunch of alarmist loon research. I am not advocating everyone slamming down 30 cans of diet soda every day, but just like everything that our beloved scientists tell us, moderation is the key. Eggs are good, then eggs are bad, now they are not so bad. Milk, wine, chocolate, coffee, etc. etc. How many times has the science found a completely different or modified version of what the supposed truth is about what we eat. Take a pill folks.... just not 5,000 of them.... or you might get cancer! :)

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 1:21 pm PST

I just love sloppy journalism. The article brings up studies on artificial sweeteners that were done in the early 1970's where rats were fed 5000 times the amount of sweetener, and there was "possibly" a link to the development of tumors in these rats. Well, for one, that was not ever in fact proven (or they would have banned this from all food use and products sold in the USA and they haven't, and for two, let's make a human being eat 5,000 times the amount of ANYTHING and tell me that it isn't going to have an adverse effect!!! What a bunch of alarmist loon research. I am not advocating everyone slamming down 30 cans of diet soda every day, but just like everything that our beloved scientists tell us, moderation is the key. Eggs are good, then eggs are bad, now they are not so bad. Milk, wine, chocolate, coffee, etc. etc. How many times has the science found a completely different or modified version of what the supposed truth is about what we eat. Take a pill folks.... just not 5,000 of them.... or you might get cancer! :)

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 1:23 pm PST

As in all studies and articles about health care in general, you very carefully put forth your own personnal agenda over giving full disclusure to the facts. Diet soda is colored and flavored water, which is essential no matter what form it takes. You fail to mention the diet sodas that are no calorie which is the vast majority of diet soda'a consumed therefore saying that more is consumed making the benefits minimal. Sounds like the filtered cigarette issue which is true but that points to addiction. Diet soda is not an addiction. While your assertations about the potential affects of consuming diet soda are valid, they are incomplete in so far as to push your own opinion forth as fact. I have none of the reactions you mention. My intake of sweets is nearly non existant. IE no sugar on cereal, no candy bars or donuts etc. My weight is 35 lbs less than it was before I switched to diet sodas. (Without additional exercise) I also drink green tea, beer etc. My health and the health of others that have a similar regimen to mine is pretty much excellant. At least be honest when you write an opinion piece that relies on some facts (but not all) that you don not like do not like diet drinks and just want the uninformed look upon you as a well informed individual. Over the years there have been countless studies that say that one day everything is bad for you, then it's all good for you. Everything taken in moderation is the proper course. Don't over do it should be your advise. You should go into politics. Half truths and spotty fact checking are a staple. That seems to be todays journalist. Most of you do not even proof read your articles. The bad grammer and bad spelling makes one wonder what you learnd in school. Most of you should have saved the money your parents spent on college.

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 1:33 pm PST

I have been drinking diet sodas for a long time. And it hasn't done any harm to me yet. I don't drink them all the time. I usually prefer coffee or tea or something else. But I'm not going to drink regular pop where I'm swallowing a bowl of sugar, because that's all it is. But it's a decent article anyway!!!

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 1:34 pm PST

I have been drinking diet sodas for a long time. And it hasn't done any harm to me yet. I don't drink them all the time. I usually prefer coffee or tea or something else. But I'm not going to drink regular pop where I'm swallowing a bowl of sugar, because that's all it is. But it's a decent article anyway!!!

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 1:36 pm PST

Diet soda causes all types of cancers...along with this and high fructose corn syrup you do not stand a chance in this wonderfully modern world we have created. Stay away from these poisons if you can.

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12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 1:52 pm PST

Nothen wrong with diet soda. nothen good either but its way better then drinking regular soda.

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13. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 2:00 pm PST

It would have been helpful if the article made some useful suggestions for substitutes rather than simply saying that one should drink "low-calorie, high-nutrient fluids". That tells me nothing.

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14. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 2:02 pm PST

This article falls apart in the first point. Point stated diet beverage has only 5% less calories than regular. How do you figure? Regular soda 120 cal, Diet soda 0 cal. That's 100%. The author must have gone to public.

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15. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 2:10 pm PST

hi thanks i had no idea

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The Truth About Diet Soda By David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding - Posted Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 3:33 pm PST