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Am I missing something about 'diet' coke?

Hang on Now

Why do people think they're being healthy drinking a diet coke? I heard Ivan Yates recently talking about how he's given up drink, and how he'd often have a diet coke instead. I didn't think anything of it at first, as it sounds like a normal thing to say.

Eventually though, I realised the irony of it. First of all, sodas aren't very good for you, and secondly, aren't people aware that diet coke is worse than regular coke. It'd be one thing if it were just working class who drank diet cokes, but I often see intelligent people going for them too. I just don't understand how people can so easily be the victims of marketing?

EDIT: Due to an onslaught of comments about what I said towards the working class; my justification lies as follows:

It's mostly the working class that thought water (in this country) was free! Case closed.

And just to tackle back chat from another user:

Deleted User wrote: »

Ironically, it's the people who swallow this waffle that are left looking rather dim.

Ironically it was the working class that swallowed the waffle of Michael Martin about water being free. The subsequent years of deliberation within the Dail can only have cost the country € billions. All thanks to the ignorance of the working class.

Deleted User wrote: »

This attitude stems from our political leaders who try to brainwash the public with propaganda that people who are against their policies which are designed to ultimately make the rich even wealthier, are some sort of thick, uneducated, anti-social scroungers.

No, that's not how I arrived at my conclusion. I take one look at working class folk, smoking and drinking, and it's quite obvious. Secondly, I'm actually implying that there more ignorant, as opposed to un-intelligent.

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Oasis1974

Saddest thing are those kind of half spastic obese people knocking back the diet version thinking there the healthiest clowns in town.

jam_mac_jam

Hang on Now wrote: »

But the thing is, that it's 'slightly' worse!

Why is it worse if it has no sugar?

syntheticjunk

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Why is it worse if it has no sugar?

Because aspartame is bigger poison than sugar.

diomed

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

Aspartane is ok.
Aspartame is different.
"Specifically, the hoax websites allege that aspartame is responsible for multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus, and methanol toxicity, causing "blindness, spasms, shooting pains, seizures, headaches, depression, anxiety, memory loss, birth defects" and death." Wiki

AttentionBebe

syntheticjunk wrote: »

Because aspartame is bigger poison than sugar.

*Citation needed

lawred2

Hang on Now wrote: »

Why do people think they're being healthy drinking a diet coke? I heard Ivan Yates recently talking about how he's given up drink, and how he'd often have a diet coke instead. I didn't think anything of it at first, as it sounds like a normal thing to say.

Eventually though, I realised the irony of it. First of all, sodas aren't very good for you, and secondly, aren't people aware that diet coke is worse than regular coke. It'd be one thing if it were just working class who drank diet cokes, but I often see intelligent people going for them. I just don't understand how people can so easily be the victims of marketing?

wut?

[Deleted User]

The evidence implies that artificial sweeteners in Diet Coke are linked with low IQ, obesity, involuntary hand movements in the presence of attractive women, an inability to see reason, an urge to worsen inequities, compulsive catchphrase repetition, issues with hair and skin coloring, and constant tv watching.

Jobs OXO

It's the drink of lower class fat wans waddling about in their pyjamas

diomed

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/What-Causes-MS/Disproved-theories
The link is they checked it and found there is no link.

lawred2

Jobs OXO wrote: »

It's the drink of lower class fat wans waddling about in their pyjamas

are they known for heading out to work?

K.Flyer

Eat healthy..
Doner Kebad, Chips and A Diet Coke, shure you'll be grand :rolleyes: :pac:

the dark phantom

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

Donald Rumsfeld was involved in its creation. Enough said..

Hang on Now

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Its much healther then an alcholic drink.

No its not water but much better then a normal coke. Artifical sweetner is largly unproven as a poison that the urban myths promote.

Where do you get the idea that working class people are not intelligent. Stupid post

More working class smoke. Fact.

my3cents

I'm sure I read in AH recently someone saying that they have never seen a thin person drinking diet coke.

I think they were right.

Hang on Now

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Why is it worse if it has no sugar?

Some things are too good to be true kid!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

A bit of an internet myth there.And it was that Aspartame caused MS-like symptoms.
Magnuson BA; Burdock GA; Doull J; et al. (2007) in "Aspartame: a safety evaluation based on current use levels, regulations, and toxicological and epidemiological studies" state...

Numerous allegations have been made via the Internet and in consumer magazines purporting neurotoxic effects of aspartame leading to neurological or psychiatric symptoms including seizures, headaches, and mood changes....Review of the biochemistry of aspartame has found no evidence that the doses consumed would plausibly lead to neurotoxic effects.

.

Several comprehensive reviews have failed to find any evidence for aspartame as a cause of any neurological symptoms.

Hang on Now

sugarman wrote: »

ARE YOU MAD??? WITH ALL THAT FLUORIDE??? :pac:

He/she didn't say tap water!

Hang on Now

Emilee Lemon Bath wrote: »

A bit of an internet myth there.And it was that Aspartame caused MS-like symptoms.
Magnuson BA; Burdock GA; Doull J; et al. (2007) in "Aspartame: a safety evaluation based on current use levels, regulations, and toxicological and epidemiological studies" state...
.

Several comprehensive reviews have failed to find any evidence for aspartame as a cause of any neurological symptoms.

Ah well, I'll continue to err on the safe side!

dr.fuzzenstein

AvonEnniskerry wrote: »

I sure as hell don't drink diet Coke to be healthy. I never drink fizzy drinks and on rare occasion will have a diet Coke with my meal if we're out. I just prefer the taste. I'm not keen on full Coke. But I'm under no illusion to it being the healthy option.

You're just weird...

on topic:
It has been suggested that drinking something artificially sweet your body releases insulin. Since you didn't ingest any sugar, you have a sugar crash and get hungry and need to eat.
You will notice that mostly fat people drink diet sodas.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hang on Now wrote: »

Ah well, I'll continue to err on the save side!

I'm sure you will continue to err.

dr.fuzzenstein

Fat people drinking duet sodas, found the link:

https://www.self.com/story/4-ways-diet-soda-could-make-you-gain-weight

Teyla Emmagan

I haven't had a coke all year

Guy:Incognito

Snake Plisken wrote: »

I stopped drinking Diet Coke when they reduced the bottle size to 1.75 Litres and switched to Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max as they sell it in two litre bottles.

I wouldn't care if they only sold it in thimbles. My decisions on what I eat and drink are based on taste, not packaging size and/or price.

BillyBobBS

Hang on Now wrote: »

Why do people think they're being healthy drinking a diet coke? I heard Ivan Yates recently talking about how he's given up drink, and how he'd often have a diet coke instead. I didn't think anything of it at first, as it sounds like a normal thing to say.

Eventually though, I realised the irony of it. First of all, sodas aren't very good for you, and secondly, aren't people aware that diet coke is worse than regular coke. It'd be one thing if it were just working class who drank diet cokes, but I often see intelligent people going for them. I just don't understand how people can so easily be the victims of marketing?

Its people like yourself who stereotype working class people like myself who aren't intelligent.

diomed

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Its people like yourself who stereotype working class people like myself who aren't intelligent.

That could be have two meanings.

Guy:Incognito

Emilee Lemon Bath wrote: »

I'm sure you will continue to err.

And on the "save" side too.

jam_mac_jam

syntheticjunk wrote: »

Because aspartame is bigger poison than sugar.

Neither are poisons. THe aspartame thing is mostly urban myth.There is very little evidence.

It does contribute to putting on weight however as you continue to crave sweet foods but it is not a poison

Hang on Now

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Its people like yourself who stereotype working class people like myself as not being intelligent.

Technically I'm working class too. So if you don't fit the stereotype of a working class, then don't take too much offence!

Vic_08

kneemos wrote: »

If working class people were intelligent they wouldn't be working class.

QED.

If they were intelligent they'd call themselves middle class and viciously belittle anyone even a millimetre lower than themselves on the social scale in order to validate their superiority.

[Deleted User]

I generally prefer drinking loads of water, but pepsi max and diet coke are lovely. I never liked the full sugar ones, always found them too sickly sweet