Why You Need to Stop Drinking Diet Soda Right Now
 

There are few foods on the planet that offer absolutely zero nutritional value, and soda falls into this category. I'm always surprised at how many people ask me if diet soda is really that bad for you. If you're not convinced, it's time to get the facts and understand the real risks that come along with this unhealthy habit.

It messes with your skin: Studies have shown that a regular soda habit has been linked to accelerated aging. If the long-term effects aren't enough to scare you, diet soda lowers your pH levels, which can cause acne and leave your skin looking dull and tired.

It alters your mood: The aspartame found in diet soda has been linked to headaches, dizzy spells, and even mood swings. It's especially potent in people with a predisposition for anxiety or depression.

It leads to weight gain: A University of Texas Health Science Center study found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the greater their risk of becoming overweight. Downing just two or more cans a day increased waistlines by 500 percent.

It increases your risk of heart attack: One University of Miami study found that folks who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack than those who abstained from drinking soda.

It ups your chances of developing diabetes: People with a daily soda habit (even just one or two per day) were more than 25 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than individuals who had no more than one sugary drink per month.

Why You Need to Stop Drinking Diet Soda Right Now

I never, ever drink diet soda. If I want a soda, which is rare, I will always opt for a Coca Cola but one in the glass 8 ounce bottles. No plastic or twist off tops.

People who drink diet soda all day, every day, are actually addicted to all those chemicals in there. Sad.

I drink a diet coke straight from the can and have a diet snickers bar for breakfast every morning.

Correlation =/= causation.

If this were true, we'd be sending soda over to third-world countries by the gigalitre.

It is because a lot of fat people drink diet soda but still eat a ton of food. I see people all the time order diet soda with their 20 piece fried chicken meal. People that really care about staying healthy and maintaining a healthy weight mostly just drink water.

Diet soda stimulates your appetite, if you stimulate the appetite of Third Worlders it won't make much difference as there's still no food there :2 cents:

Thanks for the info bro :)

This is one of those facebook scare stories, like eating bacon doubles you chance of getting cancer* sounds really bad.


*what it then fails to say is that your odds are 1 in 10,000 but eating bacon means you are now a 2 in 10,000 chance, tabloid headlines are built on the first example.

Most of the OP is absolute nonsense, with zero actual links to actual professional medical research.

Just saying :D

Welcome to GFY :thumbsup

Usually what the OP posts are weird conspiracy theories, but this one is true. So I guess we hit a milestone of some sort :1orglaugh

Why do idiots always single out diet soda? Shouldn't your criticism be in regards to ALL soda in general? The reason some people drink diet soda is because it has no calories. They want something low calorie that satisfies their taste buds in ways that water doesn't. Diet soda does NOT cause you to gain weight while normal soda most certainly does.

Also some overweight/obese people drink diet soda because they are diabetic and therefore can't drink normal soda.

Instead of scare tactics and bullshit why not mention that soda, diet or not, is not very good for you and make suggestions for things to drink other than water that are more healthy?

i find feces fascinating... :2 cents:

Thanks :thumbsup


... but he's not telling the truth really is he, I mean you can't just say something without giving proof (its called russells teapot) and what he actual links to is an MSN/yahoo article with 0 links to actual professional medical double blind testing.

people dont care, they'll drink it anyway

So it's healthy then? Overall good for the human body? Just keep drinking your diet soda folks.

Yes the post lack some links but common sense says it's not good for you.

I have never consumed diet soda of any kind, just tried it ones from a friend and it tasted like crap.

I never said that did I ?

There are masses of products that are not good for you but I'd like to know exactly what they do chemically to me through the scientific method, not believe the opinion of some guy who heard it from some other guy, whos wife said her neighbors friend once got aids from drinking diet coke.

Anyway, I'm just pointing out the nonsense article, the article is a "LOOK AT THIS" headline, with zero content, we should learn from it when you think about what we're doing here :1orglaugh

Try sparkling water with a little bit of unsweetened (natural) fruit juice, some lemon juice or bitters

i don't drink that shit

WOW everything is going to kill you, to prevent this you need to live in a bubble.

It's because diet soda triggers your body to store fat, just like sugar. It doesn't directly contribute to putting fat on you, it just creates a better environment for other things to add fat.

Nice in They are all lies. Diet soda is a lie.

These are very skewed facts...these three in particular:

Many people who are overweight already are drinking diet soda's whilst tryign to lose weight or to at least not gain any more weight. Overweight people are at greater risk of heart attacks and diabetes as well. It's not like they took a control group of 1000 bodybuilders, started feeding them coke zero to see what happened...
Using ths reasoning that these people have, you could say that because people who bike to work instead of drive cars have less heart attacks, "car ownership may increase the risk of heart attack by 30%"

I don't drink any soda. If it shows up with a meal like it does sometimes. I might have a sip.

If i am going to ingest that much sugar i do it ina binge and eat chocolate. Or go nuts on some donuts with my boys.

Or wine..wine is full of sugar i would rather stuff my body with bad sugar from wine and chocolate.

Stupid. Like with anything you need to moderate. Soda in general is crap, no matter if it's diet or regular.