Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: CT Rob
Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: CT Rob
I stopped drinking diet soda a year ago and havent looked back.Bad bad stuff.Water or ice tea for me .No sugar wanted or needed.
Nothing personal at all....but can you explain why you think it's "bad stuff"?
It's nothing but a can or bottle full of chemicals.Read the ingredients and tell me if you would pour any one of them in a glass and drink it?I doubt it.
Many of the ingredients you call simply "chemicals"....are a part of everything we eat. And that includes the so-called "natural" stuff. All foods are made up of chemicals. Chemicals ARE nature. The question arises where these concentrations of chemicals can cause us harm. Reading ingredient lists, that are hard to pronounce, doesn't automatically mean something is "bad" for us. Vitamins and minerals base elements are also hard to pronounce. Would I drink an entire 12 ounces of pure aspartame? No...but in small quantities it causes no harm. Many vitamins, if taken in large quantities, can kill you eventually. Nobody seems overly concerned about that when we have all kinds of people gorging themselves on them. We are "supplement" crazy. Many of the substances have not even had long term testing done....yet we are all worked up over diet soda?
Like I said...40 years of drinking it for me and I have zero negative health effects from it. If I would have drank the sugary sodas I'd probably have been obese by now or dead.
I just wanted to know if you had ANY substantial evidence that diet soda is harmful in any real world way?
Yep. Here's a good video on that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhhCi7nMFI
You know that last banana you ate? Probably figured it was healthy if a little excessively sweet. Has 10x the chemicals of any soda ever. And I'd bet many of them are toxic in high concentrations, unlike most of the ingredients in coke.