Is diet soda/drinks bad?

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Answer 1

if u drink every day,don;t have any doubt,i believe afect your teeth,of course you stomach,u will feel cravings and all kind of odd feelings in you stomach,the goverment should check that companies well,but money is money.

Answer 2

Artificial sweeteners are controversial. The internet is flooded with information that is in constant conflict. My Doctor tells me that it can affect certain individuals by causing loose bowels.

It's a good idea to limit your intake of artificial sweeteners. I use them, but sparingly. My sugar got elevated, so I switched away from beverages loaded with sugar. My sugar count came down to much better numbers to such degree, I was taken off the meds. I like that.

Everybody is different. Moderation is the name of the game. Discuss it with your doctor the next time you go in for whatever. The internet is not always a good source.

Answer 3

Yes, because it contains artificial sweetener such as aspartame which could lead to cancer and WILL cause cravings for food. The carbonated water also rots your teeth. My personal experience from drinking diet sodas was being fagtiue in class and at work and always having an empty stomach. And even worse the caffinee gave me trouble sleeping. Being tired and not able to sleep is really stressing.

Answer 4

They didn't used to be.  In the early 60's, I used to take Fizzies to Boy Scout camp, and in the mid-60's when I weighed 120 lb. and had a 28" waist, I used to drink Tab and Fresca all the time because they tasted so great with cyclamates in them, but in 1969, the FDA banned cyclamates for political reasons under the Nixon administration.  Sure, they claimed that rats forced to drink and bathe in high concentrations of the stuff eventually developed cancer, but those studies have been so suspect that some countries ban saccharin and sell Sweet'N'Low made with calcium cyclamate.

In 1981, a few days after Reagan became president, he replaced the head of the FDA with somebody with ties to G.D. Searle, which at the time owned the patent on (taste-like-)***-partame or "NutraSweet."  The next thing we knew, saccharin, with nearly 100 years of history, was being replaced in diet sodas with a poorly tested, foul-tasting adulterant.  But even that one would pale in foulness and carcinogenic potential to the chlorinated sucrose molecule that's advertised as "tast[ing] like [chlorinated] sugar because it's made from [chlorinated] sugar."  Yummy!  The aftertaste reminds me of when I wasn't very proficient at doing the backstroke and got pool water up my nose!

Oh, and the Fizzies I used to like?  I found them once in a dollar store and put them back once I read the ingredients and saw "Phenylketonurics: Contains phenylalanine."  A little 1" diameter tablet can't hold enough sugar to make a sweet carbonated drink, so the makers of Bromo Seltzer used to put Sucaryl (a mixture of cyclamate and saccharin) in them.  They quit making them either because cyclamates were eventually banned or because some of us used to like to let them dissolve and foam in our mouths, and I guess someone almost choked on one.

Just a couple of years ago, I once again saw Fizzies for sale.  In fact, they have their own website, http://www.fizzies.com/.  Just be warned, though--they're not the original by any stretch of the imagination.  The Sucaryl has been replaced with sucralose AKA Splenda AKA chlorinated sugar AKA Spleccccchhhhhda!

Answer 5

Yea, just buy vitamin water, that stuff is good and not as bad as diet soda