Diet pop VS regular pop
 

Is Diet really worse for you?

Better chance of getting cancer -- drinking 6 diet Mt Dews a day or smoking a pack of cigs a day?

I've been informed I'm eventually going to get brain tumors and die a horrible cancer death because I've been drinking 6 cans of diet Mt Dew a day.

Cigs have to be far worse I would think ... hopefully one of you health nazis will know.

Both diet and regular pop are horrible for you, but diet is much worse. Listen to Indian Charlie, he knows what he's talking about.

From the Mayo Clinic:

Drinking a reasonable amount of diet soda a day, such as a can or two, isn't likely to hurt you. The artificial sweeteners and other chemicals currently used in diet soda are safe for most people, and there's no credible evidence that these ingredients cause cancer. Some types of diet soda are even fortified with vitamins and minerals. But diet soda isn't a health drink or a silver bullet for weight loss. Although switching from regular soda to diet soda may save you calories, some studies suggest that drinking more than one soda a day — regular or diet — increases your risk of obesity and related health problems such as type 2 diabetes.

In order of bad for you.
1. Cigs
2. Soda
3. Diet Soda

Hope this helps.

doug, what does it really matter? i can guarantee you that not one person lives forever, regardless of what they eat, drink or smoke. life is 100% guaranteed to end in death.

now, when it'll happen? nobody knows.

i drink carbonated sugar free water and sonic diet cherry limeades. oh, and crown black on weekends. so i might not be the right health nazi!

probably has more to do with lack of water in their diet, along with other less than healthy dietary choices.

Drink coffee or green tea for an energy boost. Sparkling water if you need something bubbly.

Danzig, leave it to you to correct the Mayo Clinic. God luv ya.

lol

that's not what i was trying to do.....i just figure if someone is sucking down sodas, they aren't stocking lots of nutritional stuff in the pantry. that the choice of beverage is just an indication of their overall lack of dietary care.

and knowing what doug eats, and that he admits drinking 6 diet dews a day, i think i'm on safe ground! :D if i ate like doug does, i'd be bigger than my mother in law.

"Heart Attack and Stroke: Drinking diet sodas daily may increase the risks for heart attack and stroke and other vascular events by 43 percent, but no such threat exists with regular soft drinks or with less frequent consumption of diet soda. These results come from a study including more than 2,500 adults published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine on January 30, 2012. So far, no one knows what it is about diet sodas that could explain the added risk.

Kidney Trouble: In 2009, researchers at Harvard found that drinking two or more diet sodas daily could lead to a 30 percent drop in a measure of kidney function in women. No accelerated decline was seen in women who drank less than two diet sodas daily. The drop held true even after the researchers accounted for age, high blood pressure, diabetes and physical activity."

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayi...soda-addictive

if you have ever had a kidney stone.. you will back off that ****..prey for death..:eek:

what the f*ck is pop?

Just do what my avatar does. Feast on "donutties and choca milk"

If you give up the sodas and start drinking bottled water instead, I will guarantee you that you will notice a huge improvement in your overall health within a month. You will feel much better. I think you will see a dramatic change in the way you feel. Our bodies are meant to operate on water, not soft drinks.

It is an extreme example, but what would happen to the engine of your car if you started putting something in the gas tank other than gasoline? We are meant to drink water and that should be what you drink all day. If you drink 8 glasses of fluid a day, 7 of those should be water. Choose whatever you want for your 8th glass. But the other 7 glasses should be water.

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It is called a cold drink in some parts.

you know, a coke. that's what every kind of soda is down here. you want a coke? sure. what kind?

It's 100% called pop in Western Pennsylvania.




So-da sounds pretty friggen stupid ... however, leave it to the SEC to call it all Coke.

Doug, shouldn't the real question be "Is my girlfriend gonna give me more or less head if I drink diet drinks?"

Beyond that, does anything else really matter?

I think these soft drinks have an addictive element to them. I crave one right when I get up and I enjoy any non-sweet food more with one.

It would be hard to quit.

I get on my girlfriends case for her failure to quit smoking -- but she's trying to say my diet pop habit is going to lead to certain death from brain tumors. I assumed it was better for you than regular pop, at least.

The craving in the morning is for the caffeine,