What is Digg?Sponsored by Activision
Band Hero view!
guitarhero.com - The biggest event music event of the year is now in your living room.
569 Comments
- drimo, on 12/30/2008, -12/+248Just give up soda all together. Your body and your wallet will thank you.
- TheMightyB, on 12/29/2008, -20/+2261 Diet Coke + 4 Triple Cheeseburgers + 10 Big Macs w/extra Sauce + Large Fries != skinny.
- AmnesiacJack, on 12/30/2008, -52/+251Just think of all the weight you'll lose when aspartame gives you cancer!
- daimposter, on 12/29/2008, -44/+239the year i switched to diet coke i lost about 25lbs. I wasn't stupid and ate more food thinking i was saving some extra calories on the drinks. I ate the same as before or even cut back on portions.
As long as you are smart enough not to eat more because you're saving calories on your beverage, you can lose weight drinking Diet Pop. - MudMan69, on 12/30/2008, -2/+138For that matter, isn't water 100% nutrition free?
- smoger, on 12/30/2008, -50/+182buried for saying pop
- ricamac, on 12/30/2008, -6/+133FTA: Diet soda is 100 percent nutrition-free, and again, it's just as important to actively drink the good stuff as it is to avoid that bad stuff. So one diet soda a day is fine, but if you're downing five or six cans, that means you're limiting your intake of healthful beverages, particularly water and tea.
------
I have always been mystified by the apparently magical way that water contained in various beverages does not count as water. It is counter-intuitive that the 99% of diet soda that is water does not count, and we should be drinking plain water instead. Will someone please explain why plain water is better than the water in diet soda? It's not like it doesn't all get mixed up in your stomach anyway. I'm so confused... - phrenzy, on 12/30/2008, -10/+110God, I hate these 'all or nothing' type of "health articles" .. Ok, we get it! Just because you drink diet doesn't mean you get to eat crap! Wow, guess you should get a ***** Pulitzer for that observation.
Chances are high that fatties will read this article and say "see! why should I even try!" It says "it doesn't matter" and that diet sodas cause cancer! - billllyboobs34, on 12/30/2008, -34/+109Aspartame has never been proven to give anyone cancer... or headaches... or anything else for that matter. Let's get your science here and your soccer mom email forwards elsewhere.
- yaosio, on 12/30/2008, -1/+68Headline: Diet Soda leads to weight gain
Article: If you eat candy
In other news, if you run 10 miles a day you can gain weight
if you eat 500 pounds of food a day. - kent1146, on 12/30/2008, -17/+79^^
Actually, soda is a noun that denotes a carbonated beverage. Pop is a noun that denotes the user as a redneck. - wassim2k, on 12/30/2008, -1/+62Sensationalism is always Plan B when mainstream news media doesn't have anything to report.
- Remelox, on 12/30/2008, -17/+64It has proven to be disgusting.
- inactive, on 12/30/2008, -13/+58Actually, it has been pretty much proven. If you want to deny, that is fine but the studies seem to point to a definite link. The issue is the formaldehyde breakdown product of aspartame whic is damaging to cellular DNA and this damage is accumulative.
The type of damage is a duplicate of that associated with cancers. This means that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame every day could increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia.
Here are some additional links:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/34040.php
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/ ...
http://www.wnho.net/new_aspartame_studies.htm
But everything causes cancer these days so just do what you enjoy. Life is too short to worry about every little thing. - hawk0168, on 12/30/2008, -8/+48An unnatural synthetic molecule? What, like almost all pharmaceuticals? Give me that line when you're sick.
As for aspartame, the only thing wrong with it is that it tastes like metal. - dstz, on 12/30/2008, -3/+42Lost the same amount of weight, diet soda was instrumental, as a pleasure (and running was the real deal.) Hungry? get a diet coke. Brain happy.
- uptwolait, on 12/30/2008, -1/+39Cut out the buns and the fries...perfect Atkins snack!
- inactive, on 12/30/2008, -4/+40EVIAN is NAIVE backwards...
- Treshnell, on 12/30/2008, -4/+38The 8 glasses of water rule is BS. No scientific fact behind it at all.
- Misanthrope, on 12/30/2008, -4/+38Hey, way to not over-exaggerate!
- millem, on 12/30/2008, -6/+40"Just because diet soda is low in calories doesn't mean it can't lead to weight gain.
It may have only 5 or fewer calories per serving, but emerging research suggests that consuming sugary-tasting beverages--even if they're artificially sweetened--may lead to a high preference for sweetness overall. That means sweeter (and more caloric) cereal, bread, dessert--everything."
Diet soda doesn't lead to weight gain, people eating too much food leads to weight gain. Diet soda doesn't make you eat it, your low will power does. - captainbethany, on 12/30/2008, -10/+43I just read an article the other day that said drinking diet soda was great and you could include it in your daily "8 glasses" of water. It definitely doesn't increase my craving for sugary foods. I drink a coke zero or diet dr. pepper INSTEAD of eating sugar once a day or so.
- asgardshill, on 12/30/2008, -25/+58Diet soda still tastes like industrial waste. Unfiltered industrial waste.
- vizeroth, on 12/30/2008, -0/+312 or 3 cans a month is not really a high concern, though, and many of the people that need to give it up would consider that pretty equivalent to giving it up.
- dsmx, on 12/30/2008, -1/+32since 1 can of coke/pepsi is about 40% of your recommended sugar intake for the day I'm not surprised.
- TonyTheTerrible, on 12/30/2008, -12/+41no one knows *****
keep drinking your diet sodas kids - mwillems, on 12/30/2008, -5/+34Who is the author? What are his qualifications? This was not clear to me.
And when he said "healthful beverages, particularly water..." he lost me. Water is not "healthful" (whatever that means). It is necessary (but pop contains it - like 99%). But "healthful"? By volume or by omission, perhaps, but in no other way. - namredips, on 12/30/2008, -0/+28"Caffeinated beverages are hydrating.
Caffeinated beverages consumed in moderation can count toward daily water intake, contributing to hydration. The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Panel on Dietary Reference Intakes for Electrolytes and Water states, "While consumption of beverages containing caffeine and alcohol have been shown in some studies to have diuretic effects, available information indicates that this may be transient in nature, and that such beverages can contribute to total water intake and thus can be used in meeting recommendations for dietary intake of total water" (Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate, 2003). Thus, the diuretic effect is more than likely compensated for by the fluid in the beverage. "
http://www.ific.org/publications/factsheets/caffei ...
People will tell you that drinking caffeinated beverages won't hydrated you, but its basically untrue based on poor research data from the 50's or 60's (though those saying don't, probably don't realize where their information originates from.). Basically in the original study the people who didn't drink caffeine were given a caffeine source and they found there was a significant diuretic effect. The caffeine caused more water to be excreted than used for hydration. More recent studies have shown, that if you routinely consume caffeinated beverages the diuretic effect pretty much goes away, and so then something like soda/pop will hydrate you. Which, in my mind, make sense cause so many people drink nothing but soda/pop all day long and don't drink water for say weeks. Somehow they are not dying from dehydration. As far as diet soda vs water though, lots more crap in the diet soda than water. Some of that "crap" may or may not be bad to consume in the long term. So the odds are in favor of drinking just plain old water I would think... - Shivan57, on 12/30/2008, -4/+30Side effects are serious. My gf was drinking 6-8 cans of diet pop a day, a day after she decided to cut back (half to one can only) she had the worst head and body aches.
Best way to cut calories is to cut back portions and move more. I dropped 80lbs in a little over ten weeks by eating less, not eating after dinner, drinking less high calorie beverages (pop, beer) and running. Slow at first, but at least some exercise 5 times a day.
30min of exercise a day is just that, 30min. Moderate exercise is considered speed walking and light lifting. Even stretching is considered exercise. Move your bodies people! After my weight loss, I definitely caught a lot more positive attention and inspired many others to make healthier life choices. - noisician, on 12/30/2008, -2/+27isn't it funny that bottled water is even more expensive?
and lower in quality than tap water in most of the US? - Cglass, on 12/30/2008, -10/+34Yeah this article is full of *****:
"The FDA maintains that the sweetener is safe, but reported side effects include dizziness, headaches, diarrhea, memory loss, and mood changes. Bottom line: Diet soda does you no good, and it might just be doing you wrong."
Those are POSSIBLE side-effects, that are reported so they don't get SUED.
By that logic, WATER is deadly, because a POSSIBLE side-effect is DEATH if you consume too much!
By the way, I hate diet beverages, and I will never drink them. If I want to drink healthy I just have water, or regular soda when I don't. - Residents, on 12/30/2008, -1/+24Oh so the huge lady at McD's that used to get the 5 cheeseburgers and a basket of fries with a small diet coke isn't saving anything.... I promise you she isn't aware.
In all seriousness, I totally stopped drinking soda a long time ago but I can't stand the taste of diet. I go for tea and water or even drink mix or gatorade. Still, if it comes down to it, the other side of the coin - if you're drinking 5 - 6 cans a day of regular soda then you'd be better off being the one drinking 5 - 6 diet sodas. - momomathew, on 12/30/2008, -1/+22You should have switched to water instead of a diet soda
- SteaminTmann, on 12/30/2008, -4/+24Mountain Dew? Noooo thank you! I'll have a crab juice
- Slackdragon, on 12/30/2008, -2/+22Some people prefer the taste of Diet Coke after drinking it for a time. I've heard that regular Coke tastes "too sweet" after you get used to the diet taste.
So, sometimes the seemly ridiculous notion of adding a Diet Coke to a large burger and fries meal, as if that takes the fat curse off, may just be a matter of preference and not an effort to make a super-sized burger meal into a healthy meal. - Worktruck, on 12/30/2008, -0/+20The year I stopped drinking coke all together I went from 225 down to 170, plus my teeth stayed almost completely white between dentist visits. I worked in a lumberyard at the time so I was already getting plenty of exercise. I stopped because I drank way too many soft drinks at least 2 or 3 20oz bottles a day. It was odd I just stopped and now I do drink soda, but I may have 3 or 5 over a month. I just don't crave them like I use to.
- abadjay, on 12/30/2008, -38/+58dugg for saying pop
- Kucher, on 12/30/2008, -0/+19Gimme a liter of cola!
- rockstar1o9, on 12/30/2008, -0/+19But it's still mathematically less calories than if you drank the same size drink as a regular Coke and I think that's the point some of the proponents of diet soda are trying to make. To lose lots of weight, you first need to make small, incremental reductions in your caloric intake and sometimes switching to diet soda is the first step.
- Slycer, on 12/30/2008, -5/+23Here's a crazy idea.. How about you stop drinking ***** sugary cola all together and switch to water?
Drink tap water - save money, lose weight. - digigeek, on 12/30/2008, -4/+19Healthful beverages? How is water "healthful"? It is also completely nutrition-free, unless it is contaminated. Tea? What about the caffeine? Maybe next year we'll be told that normal black pekoe will kill you.
- ShadoxPrime, on 12/30/2008, -0/+15Antioxidants and such. No sodium. No artificial sweeteners.
Don't get me wrong. I probably drink a dozen diet sodas a week. I also probably drink a dozen cups of tea as well. - Jaablaze, on 12/30/2008, -2/+17You've only had cancer once....I thought the goal was never to have it. Your talking about it like its the flu....
- Bloake, on 12/30/2008, -4/+19I don't get the bad rap about diet soda. It helped me so much in losing weight because instead of drinking useless calories all day, it gave me an alternative to drinking soda for no calories. I'ts a great first step in people's weight loss plan, but I agree that it shouldn't be a long term solution to losing weight.
- Tonicks, on 12/30/2008, -2/+17Everyone who drinks water dies. Coincidence? I think not.
- draculthemad, on 12/30/2008, -6/+20Diet soda is only partially about calories, and that's not even the main concern. Regular soda is absolutely loaded with refined sugars. Drinking it frequently is a certain recipe for diabetes, all other dietary concerns aside.
- KarlH, on 12/30/2008, -9/+23Sometimes that 1% is enough to destroy the benefits of the other 99%. For a more obvious example, take ocean water. Drinking it will dehydrate your body, despite the fact that it's around 96.5% pure H2O. Caffeinated diet soft drinks also have a dehydrating effect, although less drastic and for different biological reasons -- you will pee water out of your system faster than you replenish it.
- vbullinger, on 12/30/2008, -3/+17You lost weight because you were smart and changed your diet. I'd bet you started working out, as well. You lost weight because you did the right thing. Diet pop didn't help you at all. It increases your appetite, exposes you to aspartame (worse than sugar) and tastes bad :)
We say "pop" in Minnesota, btw. We are not rednecks. In the Twin Cities, we don't have thick Fargo-ish/Sarah Palin accents, they're quite minimal. Also, we have the highest ACT rankings in the country*, so we're not dumb, either.
* - We change places with Wisconsin often, so we're either first or second. - KyleGoetz, on 12/30/2008, -1/+14A really expensive dish of caviar might cost £500.
- AtWorkSurfer, on 12/30/2008, -10/+23@hawk0168, do you take pharmaceuticals when you don't need them? Didn't think so. Do you need aspartame? Didn't think so.
@cwilsons, there is nothing unnatural about coffee, and humans have been drinking it for over 1000 years. -
Show 51 - 100 of 579 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is