Is Diet Coke really as bad for you as people say? If so, whats the evidence? I drink about a litre a day
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Miss Cookie Monster
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I don't know what the ingredient is, and it could very well not be poisonous, but I know our 5th grade teacher told us it had an ingriedent they use in rat poison. It very well could be to give it a flavor to attract rats. I don't know. I don't like the after taste of diet sodas so it doesn't matter for me anyway.
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Apparently, its about as bad for you as Coke, since its on a par with all that sugar and chemicals. It contains aspartame, which makes the blood more acidic, which could result in a negative effect on your heart rate and respiration rate, since receptors in the blood detect alkali chemicals in it, not acidic. It could also weaken bones if drank really excessively due to the aspartame again. You could try Coke Zero but its disgusting and real Coke is the best!!
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Soda in general is not good for you. Soda with artificial sweeteners are bad for you. Consuming carbonated water isn't good for your digestion and dilutes the enzymes you have to digest the rest of your food, so it lowers your whole body's ability to process and benefit from your food. Artificial sweeteners keep you hungery, they increase your chance at being diabetic and a whole lot more. For just some of the problems do a search at mercola.com for diet soda or regular soda. Google it and see. Most of the things I've read come from books that I hae and IO'm not typing them all out here but find Grocery warning by Mike Adams and any book by Elson Haas, MD.
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The aspartame in Diet sodas is not good for you generally, though some people apparently can tolerate it better than others. One important thing is to avoid aspartame diet soft drinks that have been exposed to high heat. A little known fact is that aspartame dissolves into wood alcohol at temperatures above 85 degrees F. Wood alcohol poisoning did affect many soldiers in the Persian Gulf War -- the soft drinks had been stored out in the desert, high heat conditions, and the soldiers who drank multiple cans later came down with many conditions similar to "Gulf War Syndrome." If you must drink diet sodas everyday (my spouse also is hooked on them, and unharmed so far), at least try to cut back on the ones with NutraSweet and have more of the Splenda Diet drinks. Many people will say Splenda isn't good for you, either, though as far as I know the studies find more problems with aspartame than with Splenda.
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I'm not sure. I do know that during Pregnancy, normal Coke is better for you than diet Coke.
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I would have thought a litre of any soda / carbonated drink each day would be too much - all that gas, the chemicals, and the possiblity that the artificial sweeteners they use may have side-effects, ranging from an unpleasant after-taste to cancer,
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