Diet soda is hazardous to your health??

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Smiley
The story behind it was that soldiers left the diet soda in the back of a jeep or tank, where it was heated to really high temperatures for a long period of time. Subsequently it was re-chilled and then consumed.

You don't think that people in Abu Dhabi or Kuwait don't accidentally leave their Diet drinks outside every once in a while?

[Zkribbler]

I've heard when you do that, the diet coke turns into petroleum, ruptures the can, and leaks into the sand, forming huge underground deposits of the stuff.

[Lancer]

Diet soda can really screw up your digestion. I was drinking a 2 liter bottle 5 nights a week and my digestion got really screwed up. My wife brought home a magazine article on the subject so I cut out the soda and everything is slowly returning to normal though it's taken years.

I've been drinking products with splenda and it seems to be ok so far.

[Blake]

Diet sodas (and artifical sweeteneers in general) always taste mildly toxic to me.

[Datajack Franit]

toxic but good for your bloog sugar level

[Sava]

WHY DO PEOPLE DRINK DIET SODA?

it taste like ****...

just drink water

[Imran Siddiqui]

No it doesn't Sava. But don't let your lack of taste dissaude you from thinking that it does.

[Sava]

dude...

my dad sometimes drinks diet coke...

I tried some last week...

it tastes like **** (not literally)

[Imran Siddiqui]

I've basically drank no sode except diet soda for a year or so. It most definetly does not taste like crap. Diet Coke w/Lime had been my drink of choice and now it's Coke Zero .

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Sava
dude...

my dad sometimes drinks diet coke...

I tried some last week...

it tastes like **** (not literally)

It's a matter of conditioning. After years of being a diet coke addict I can't stand the taste of classic coke.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Saccharine was thought to be a carcinagin, but a review of the studies discovered that the rats used in the studies had a predisposition to cancer.

I also heard that the original studies fed the rats an amount of saccharine that would be the same as we take kilograms of the stuff daily.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The thing that's bad about diet soda is that it can be unhelpful in losing weight, despite the lack of calories. Apparently artificial sweeteners "trick" the body into thinking that sugars are coming into the system, so it gears up to process them, but then they don't actually come, and the body gets an increased craving for sugars as a result.

It's best just to drink water anyway.

I've never been overweight, but given what you have said, maybe I should just forego all types of soda altogether.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Sava
WHY DO PEOPLE DRINK DIET SODA?

it taste like ****...

just drink water

water doesn't have caffeine in it

[Blake]

Mountain Dew forever.
Actually not so long ago I discovered there is actually Evil Mountain Dew sold in some parts of the world (Canada?) without caffiene in it. Talk about having my worldview turned upside down. Mountain Dew and Evil Mountain Dew, never woulda thunk it...
(I will weep if there is mountain dew with neither sugar or caffiene)

[Az]

Aspartame, on the face of it, looks sorta dangerous. It has a methyl esther, which should be easily hydrolyzed in the stomache. which would lead to methanol, which is highly toxic ( it oxidizes to formic acid)

While the doses are very very low, I still would avoid it while I can ( though I don't consume sugar-substitute products usually)