Diet coke

pbuckland05

I drink too much Diet coke I know it has negitive effect on health but Im not sure how can anyone clarify.

Bodhan

any food stuff taken in large quantities will have an effect on your health,some of those effects are bad some are good, but any gassy drink will harm you quicker.

Everything can be eaten in moderation.

The Guvnor

How much do you drink daily?

The main negative here to be honest would be that if this is a daily staple then the rest of your diet is probably not as healthy or as clean as it could be.

I went through a phase of drinking 3-4 cans of diet coke per day and now limit myself to a maximum of 1 pepsi max per day and would not necessarily have one every day.

I swapped the cans for cordial with water.

I would say that diet sodas can be beneficial when trying to shift some weight as they can offer you something sweet with just a single kcal per can.

ragg

Apart from all the toxic chemicals? diet coke spikes your insulin, fine if your not eating, but if taken with food, will promote fat storage.
The insulin spike and crash will ake you hungry as **** too. According to my mate (probably horse****) aspartamine is used to as an appetite enhancer in farm animals

nullzero

All soft drinks are bad for you in large quantities.
I used to be quite partial to them myself although I never aquired a taste for the diet varieties which usually contain aspartame which is seemingly incredibly toxic and according to some scientists not fit for consumption, but thats really a topic for the conspiracy theories forum.
Maybe try having sparkling water instead of your diet coke. I personally found that I've become a lot more energetic and generally healtheir since I stopped drinking soft drinks (coke, 7up etc...) regularly, it might not be true for everyone but it seems to have had a good affect on me.
One way of looking at it is that you're going to save a lot of money by not buying the stuff, that could be a help to you also.

amazingemmet

ragg wrote: »

diet coke spikes your insulin

Any links or references for that info?

ragg

amazingemmet wrote: »

Any links or references for that info?

im sure i do somewhere, will check tomorrow

Eircom_Sucks

i was under the impression that spikes in your insulin was because of sugar , if then diet coke doesnt have sugar so how could it do that ???

so much scare mongering on here its unreal , alot of stuff thrown around without facts or proof.

if thats the case every single thing is bad for you because somebody always has a bad story and never a decent one

G86

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

i was under the impression that spikes in your insulin was because of sugar , if then diet coke doesnt have sugar so how could it do that ???

so much scare mongering on here its unreal , alot of stuff thrown around without facts or proof.

if thats the case every single thing is bad for you because somebody always has a bad story and never a decent one

In all fairness, what did you expect to hear? That it should be one of your 5 a day?!

In my experience diet coke bloated my stomach and wrecked my teeth, so it's hardly healthy. Everythings grand in moderation but to be honest once I hadn't been drinking it for a while I just didn't get a craving for it at all anymore.

I was told it spikes your insulin too, I think it was something to do with your body confusing sweeteners with sugar or something? I'm not too sure though.

cc87

On aspartame anyway........

Aspartame is a methyl ester of a dipeptide used as a synthetic nonnutritive sweetener in over 90 countries worldwide in over 6000 products. The purpose of this investigation was to review the scientific literature on the absorption and metabolism, the current consumption levels worldwide, the toxicology, and recent epidemiological studies on aspartame. Current use levels of aspartame, even by high users in special subgroups, remains well below the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Food Safety Authority established acceptable daily intake levels of 50 and 40 mg/kg bw/day, respectively. ...........Acute, subacute and chronic toxicity studies with aspartame, and its decomposition products, conducted in mice, rats, hamsters and dogs have consistently found no adverse effect of aspartame with doses up to at least 4000 mg/kg bw/day. Critical review of all carcinogenicity studies conducted on aspartame found no credible evidence that aspartame is carcinogenic. The data from the extensive investigations into the possibility of neurotoxic effects of aspartame, in general, do not support the hypothesis that aspartame in the human diet will affect nervous system function, learning or behavior. Epidemiological studies on aspartame include several case-control studies and one well-conducted prospective epidemiological study with a large cohort, in which the consumption of aspartame was measured. The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener.

ragg

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=886000

rubadub

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

i was under the impression that spikes in your insulin was because of sugar , if then diet coke doesnt have sugar so how could it do that ???

It is pavlovian theory. Like if you blow air in somebody's eye they will blink, if you ringing a bell while doing this they will still blink, take away the air and keep ringing the bell and they still blink. The theory (I am not saying it is right/wrong) is that your body will register the sweetness and think it is getting sugar and so cause a spike.

I heard the opposite logic too though, if you drink loads of diet drinks you get used to sweetness and not get spikes, and so when you go back on real sugar drinks you might not get as much of an insulin response as people who do not drink them.

ragg

Can i just clear something up - i sometimes drink Diet coke - I don't drink it often as i don't really like the taste and woulr rather have a normal coke.

Its the people who drink litres of the stuff a day need to reconsider their intake, not the person that has the odd can of the stuff

corkcomp

i drink about two cans per day, and i doubt it acts as an appetite enhancer because it does the opposite for me. diet coke is better than full sugar coke and IMO it is unlikely to hinder weight loss .

Oryx

Whats the caffeine content of diet coke? That would be one of my bigger concerns with drinking too much of it.

amazingemmet

ragg wrote: »

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=886000

Just going through that abstract and basically it measured blood glucose and found blood glucose rises while consuming carbs and decreases when when not consuming carbs. There was no mention of them taking insulin measures so its not really relevant.

rubadub

Oryx wrote: »

Whats the caffeine content of diet coke?

Not as much as people think, under 10mg per 100ml, so a 2L would have less than a standard 200mg caffeine tablet, a large starbucks coffee would have more than a 2L of coke.

d'Oracle

rubadub wrote: »

It is pavlovian theory.

Sounds tasty.

Melia

amazingemmet wrote: »

Just going through that abstract and basically it measured blood glucose and found blood glucose rises while consuming carbs and decreases when when not consuming carbs. There was no mention of them taking insulin measures so its not really relevant.

Isn't insulin production triggered by an increase in blood glucose?

amazingemmet

Melia wrote: »

Isn't insulin production triggered by an increase in blood glucose?

Yes, thats why the listed study is kind of pointless in regards to this question. what would of been an interesting result would of been a drop in blood sugar but a rise in insulin that would of shown that in aspartame increases blood insulin levels with out the input of other nutrients.