The only problem I have with the comment about the aspartame causing your body to "revolt" and throw a food-craving tantrum is that I drink quite a bit of diet pop and I have never noticed a food-craving tantrum. If anything, drinking a diet pop can sate my hunger for a couple hours.
I have heard that argument before that diet pop makes you crave sugary foods, but in my experience, that just isn't the case. I'm not sure why.
Phosphates in colas were shown by the military and other medical studies to be part of the reason for stress fractures, inhibiting calcium uptake.
If you compare it to the obvious zero-calorie alternative, water, then:
(1) Soda lightens your wallet.
(2) Fruit tastes horrible for a while after, until your taste buds recover from the Nutrasweet onslaught.
(3) No matter what your standard of proof for whether any of those chemicals in diet soda are harmful, you'd be hard pressed to claim it's absolutely for sure definitely as safe as water, which mostly just poses a danger to seven hour marathoners on low sodium diets who guzzle four cups at each water stop.
(4) It's nasty.
(5) Why? Afraid to drink something without a label? Hate to let down a multinational corporation after they, in good faith, spent so much money on advertising to brainwash your ass into thinking it needs cola to survive?
that is a bunch of garbage...
as matter of fact the body doesn't even absorb artificial sweetners, that is why they are calorie free... they do absolutely nothing to affect your insulin regulation...
show me a peer reviewed study to support your claim and I'll consider what you are saying but I have never seen support or in-fact heard what you are saying below
[quote]chickpea wrote:
articifical sugars are really bad for the body. they confuse the body'a ability to regulate insulin and hunger. they make you often feel hungry when your body doens't actually want/need food, and they leave you craving foods that are unhealthy.
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chickpea wrote:
I know some of it was about regular soda. But your body's insulin regulation is really messed up by intaking artificial sweeteners, especially if you are drinking a lot of diet soda.
You are full of shit!!!!! I have been drinking diet soda for 28 years and weigh 135 at 5'8". I avg drinking a GALLON of diet pop every day. Even more in the summer when I am working 12 hours and doing a 90 minute workout.
Who decided that the sweeteners are artificial? Have you ever read how granulated sugar is made? Most of the new sweeteners being studied are derived from fruits, leaves, and licorice and are 50-2000 times sweeter than granulated sugar. While they still have the same 4 calories/gram, so little is needed that you get hardly any calories.
http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/102/106833.htm?pagenumber=1My former college coach would say that all carbonated beverages are bad for runners, but I'm skeptical. The only negative things that I can find about diet sodas are from those tree-hugging urban legend websites. These websites usually warn consumers about the corrosive properties of coca-cola. Vomit is also corrosive. People in general seem to have a fear of chemicals. Just because a chemical has a long and complex name, that does not mean that it is bad for you. I always laugh when I hear people say that they eat 'organic' foods. You would think that someone could come up with a better name for something that is void of pesticides. I eat organic foods as well. Those C-H bonds sure do taste good.