Are soft drinks bad??

tk123

Hi All,

I've seen posts saying that diet drinks are as bad as reg ones...Is this true? I know the sweateners are bad but is drinking diet the same as drinking regular??

Trojan

A non-diet can of coke contains equivalent of 10 tablespoons of sugar (source - various - google).

Diet drinks are much better calorie-wise, but there are serious questions about the safety of asparteme (Nutrasweet - most common sweetner, 92 different side-effects), and saccharin (previously linked to cancer). Sources again various - google for them.

Al.

dudara

All soft drinks are bad, due to suspicion that the phosphorus they contain impedes calcium absorption. They viewed as being especially bad for developing girls and women due to increased likelyhood of developing osteoporosis

trotter_inc

They completely rot your teeth! Course they're bad for you

alienhead

your one on the new coke ad has lovelly teeth, hang on a minute.......... they all have lovely teeth!

Originally posted by trotter_inc
They completely rot your teeth! Course they're bad for you

tk123

I don't think it rots everyones teeth....I drink a few litres - prob closer to 10 a week and my teeth are eroded from the stuff - i know a guy who drinks 10+ cans a day(no joke) and his teeth are perfect!

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by tk123
I don't think it rots everyones teeth....I drink a few litres - prob closer to 10 a week and my teeth are eroded from the stuff - i know a guy who drinks 10+ cans a day(no joke) and his teeth are perfect!

You'd think you'd stop then....

Tazzle

Originally posted by tk123
I don't think it rots everyones teeth....I drink a few litres - prob closer to 10 a week and my teeth are eroded from the stuff - i know a guy who drinks 10+ cans a day(no joke) and his teeth are perfect!

Probably looks after them.

mayordenis

basically sugar is bad for teeth and acid is bad for your teeth and most soft drinks are a mixture of acid and sugar:dunno:

gibbie

Diet soft drinks are brutal for you - almost as bad as the original soft drinks.

Aspartame has a lot of unknown health risks. It's primarily made by Monsanto, the US multinational that makes genetically modified seeds for your GM veggies and wheat. Health studies (quickly quashed by government groups that benefit from Monstanto's campaign donations) show that large quantities of aspartame can mimic the symptoms of lupus. Large quantities are described as six cans a day, an amount that a lot of people consume. Aspartame is also rumoured to contain fermaldehyde.

Calorie-wise soft drinks are ok, but they rot your teeth and they're a complex carbohydrate so your carb count is high and consuming them may actually make you crave sweets.

Coke is really bad for you. I was hit in the head with a can of coke one day and had to get 3 stitches.

daveirl

This post has been deleted.

Exit

How does regular Lucozade fit in? I assume it's not as bad as most soft drinks, but how good/bad is it?

aidan_walsh

Originally posted by Exit
How does regular Lucozade fit in? I assume it's not as bad as most soft drinks, but how good/bad is it?

Did you know its banned from some hospitals now?

I was cleaning a drip tray wt work a few years back, when I found a thick, orange treacle like substance stuck to the side of it... Lucozade had spilled in and dried. Had to burn it out with scalding hot water...

Still doesn't stop me having a bottle a day to keep me going through college though...

tk123

Originally posted by doodle_sketch
Did you know its banned from some hospitals now?

I was cleaning a drip tray wt work a few years back, when I found a thick, orange treacle like substance stuck to the side of it... Lucozade had spilled in and dried. Had to burn it out with scalding hot water...

Still doesn't stop me having a bottle a day to keep me going through college though...

So is it banned cos its messy or cos its dangerous then??

Fudger

Its a man made manufactured product with more E's than you can shake a stick at. I don't know whether this is true or an urban myth but seemingly it would take 5 years for all traces of coke to leave your system even after one can......... hmmmmm Also seemingly the Police in America carry a gallon of coke in the boot and its used to remove blood from tarmac after road accidents.......... either way I wouldn't drink the crap.

Corporate bloody america !!!!!!!!!!!!

segadreamcast

Originally posted by Fudger
Its a man made manufactured product with more E's than you can shake a stick at. I don't know whether this is true or an urban myth but seemingly it would take 5 years for all traces of coke to leave your system even after one can......... hmmmmm Also seemingly the Police in America carry a gallon of coke in the boot and its used to remove blood from tarmac after road accidents.......... either way I wouldn't drink the crap.

Corporate bloody america !!!!!!!!!!!!

Both statements there are bull - everything apart from more E's than you can shake a stick at really is bull. The rest is correctly, as you say, urban myth.

Also, isn't the reason Lucozade is 'banned' from hospitals because nurses previously used it under the belief that it rehydrated patients - when - infact, it sometimes manages to dehydrate them? So not really banned, just not used for recovery. E.g. like every other drink on earth.

Note: Hospitals sell lucozade in their vending machines, so it's not the most effective 'ban' in the world eh?

Stark

Lucozade - made with glucose, your body's preferred source of energy at 10 times the body's preferred concentration of it . Strange how that small print gets left out of the ads isn't it?

If I hear one more person who's knowledgable on the harmful effects of sugar and white flour etc. turn around and then say "but lucozade is good for you because it's made with glucose, not sucrose" I'll smack them. Yuck, reminds me of the days I was addicted to it and had to suffer with my lips practically stuck together from the icky sweetness after drinking it.

On the subject of diet drinks, yes they're as bad as the full sugar ones. Along with the myriad of harmful effects of aspartame, it also stimulates insulin production in the body in the same way as sugar does, only this time you haven't ingested sugar so that's quite dangerous. In fact many of the symptoms I've seen reported with aspartame are almost indentical to those associated with hypoglycaemia. Oh and because it stimulates insulin, you'll still get fat off it. Mmmm, just for the taste of it.

DietRite do a range of aspartame free/caffeine free/sodium free soft drinks, might be worth checking out. You can get them off www.lowcarbmegastore.co.uk, delivery is expensive though Still won't be good for you, but I can't see any obvious bad side to them. (Just don't subsitute them for water when you're thirsty).