Are diet drinks really calorie free

whats newxt

As above they safe to drink when on a diet and trying to loose weight.

ultraman1

whats newxt wrote: »

As above they safe to drink when on a diet and trying to loose weight.

Eat less...exercise more .

seventeen sheep

ultraman1 wrote: »

Eat less...exercise more .

In fairness, your response is completely irrelevant to the question.

ultraman1

seventeen sheep wrote: »

In fairness, your response is completely irrelevant to the question.

How's this.....Eat less sh1te ,dat includes diet drinks,and exercise more.

Nino Brown

Diet drinks are calorie free, but there's much worse stuff in them than calories

braddun

no

mcbobbyb

You would be better off doing your own research than listening to peoples opinions here.

ultraman1

One word "rsp"...

pconn062

Moved from Athletics/Running

syklops

whats newxt wrote: »

As above they safe to drink when on a diet and trying to loose weight.

Disclaimer: Im not a dietician, or a nutritionist.

This is just me. Water has less calories than a diet coke and to be honest tastes better. If you want a coke as a treat, have a coke. Have one coke. In a can because IMO it tastes better in a can.

Are they safe? They are FDA approved. Studies have been done saying they are fine. There have been various facebook-type campaigns with stories of women dying from cancer who stopped drinking diet coke and the cancer went away. Fact or maybe there was an agenda at play.

A calorie, as I understand it, is the amount of energy it takes to increase a kilogram of water by one degree. Ask yourself, how many kilograms am I? What good to my system is this $1.59 cola? I could have water for cheaper which will hydrate me.

If you need energy, a diet coke wont give you energy, because it gives 1 calorie. It is low energy. If you dont need energy. Just have water.

papu

The artificial sweeteners and sugar substitutes used in these diet drinks and such are not used by the body for energy and so have 0 calories.

They do have other nasty side effects though, laxative effects , they can make you feel hungry (which is not something you want when dieting), and some studies which suggest a link between certain sweeteners and cancer.

These substitutes taste very sweet but are not broken down by the body , one hopes they pass through harmlessly but I'd be wary of them and avoid as much as possible.

ford2600

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/full/nature13793.html

You might be able to get full study elsewhere

rubadub

Some diet drinks still have small amounts of calories.

e.g. diet club orange is 6kcal per 100ml. This is since it has still got 11% orange juice in it, and is 1.2% sugar. Which is about 1 tenth of what others have.

The new club orange zero is 5% juice.

JJayoo

I think drinks like coke zero are great when dieting.

El_Dangeroso

ultraman1 wrote: »

Eat less...exercise more .

OMG you guise, shut the forum down, literally no one in the history of ever has thought or said this before.

Job done, good work everyone! :pac:

moc moc a moc

Nino Brown wrote: »

there's much worse stuff in them than calories

For example?

Proof?

papu

moc moc a moc wrote: »

For example?

Proof?

did you miss it?

ford2600 wrote: »

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/full/nature13793.html

You might be able to get full study elsewhere