Hello, Iam Writing To You Because Iam One Of Those People That Have Been Trying To Lose Some Pounds.. I Have Been Cutting Off The Sweets, Fatting And Anything Else That Gains Weight..i Also Have Been Doing Exercise..my Only Question Is If Diet Coke Gains Weight Even Though If Its Diet ???.. My Parents Tell Me To Avoid All Types Of Cokes When In A Diet But Iam Soo Addicted To Coke That Its Kinda Hard..please Help Me Out..thanx
My friend and his son got temporary blindness from drinking diet soda and koolaid with aspartame.
Simply because someone suffers temporary blindness, it is difficult to pinpoint the specific food (if it is a food at all) that caused it. To prove something, the outcome needs to be consistently reproducible, i.e. drink the same diet soda or KoolAid and it causes temporary blindness again. If aspartame causes such effects, health boards from around the world would have long banned its production and usage in everyday foods. This has definitely not been the case. With the increasing number of diabetics, the consumption of sugar substitute has only increased, not decreased.
They quit drinking it and got their vision back. And temp. blindness is listed as a symptom.
I also know many people with either really, really horrible short term memory, or Parkinsons, or bad thyroid and they all drink diet and use artifical sweetener.
Strange how all the people that I know that have the symptoms they claim cause these symptoms have these symptoms and the people that I know that don't use artifical sweeteners do not have these symptoms.
Personally I don't want to put something into me that turns to formaldahyde!
And I haven't had any health problems in 30 some years other than little things like occasional arthritis type pain and headaches.
There is absolutely no nutritional value to coke or diet soda, all the additives/sugar substitiutes in the diet version are just plain...not healthy.... Sugar, especially high fuctose corn syrup is a large cause of weight gain. I understand the addiction behind drinking soda, because I was really bad, but I slowly cut it out of my diet, I'm not going to say I never drink it, cause once in awhile it's nice to have a cold one, but it's not a everyday thing with me anymore. If you truly want to lose weight sugar is the one thing you may have to give up, for the time being. Try drinking ice cold water, or 100% fruit juices--- put some sliced fruit in it, but it you start drinking it through out the day it helps ease the "want" for your normal drink.
I know that don't use artifical sweeteners do not have these symptoms.
And I haven't had any health problems in 30 some years other than little things like occasional arthritis type pain and headaches.
I drink use lots of artificial sweeteners, and just like you who don't use artificial sweeteners, I get the occasional headaches and such. People can blame their problems on a lot of things. If someone had a bad thyroid, cancer, leg pain, sore throat, etc. etc. and they would like to blame it on artificial sweetener, they can. The point is, if it was truly dangerous, these products will not be allowed to be sold. Half the people I know drink diet drinks and no one has ever experienced any problems, at least they haven't used artificial sweetener as their scapegoat for their various health problems, if any.
I want to make a point of actually answering the question: "Can diet coke/diet pepsi ruin your diet"?
The answer is no. If you are on a diet and it is stressful enough as it is, having a diet drink will not add calories to your diet and tastes great. No, it will not ruin your diet.
Why are all the medicines allowed to be sold. If what you say is true then Vioxx should have never been sold. All these drug companies would have medicines that do not have side effects. They are only interested in the profits. I could write a whole couple pages on this alone.
It's like this different people react to things different. Look at the psychotropic drugs people are on. Do you realize how many people kill themselves every year because the antidepressent drug had an adverse affect on them even though it may help the other 2/3rds of the people that take it? While artifical sweeteners may not have caused you having health problems that doesn't rule out that it may be the or a contributing factor to others health problems. When somebody has health problems they need to educate their self on what is it that may be contributing to the problem? Are they allergic to aspartame, are they allergic to MSG, are they allergic to their laundry soap,....?
So people need to be made aware that these things that while they may not effect others it could be toxic to them.
Del Shannon went around preaching against suicide. He was taking Prozac and ended up killing himself. Why? Because he wasn't made aware of the possibility that things we use in our everyday life can be killing us because our body may not be tolerant to it.
SeleneFN, While you may think drinking diet soda won't "ruin" your diet, I have been involved in a lot of tests in the late 1980's that showed although your tongue may be satisfied for a short while by the sweet taste of diet soda, your brain can't be fooled and still craves calories for energy. Artificial sweetners can stimulate your appetite and increase your carbs cravings also. Which translates into, you will evenutally eat more, thus ruining any healthy diet. There are alot of people that have terrible side effects and we really don't know at this point what the long term effect of these artificial sweetners are. For instance Spenda, although advertised as a natural, artificial sweetner, it's not totally natural, it's made up of two compounds sugar and chlorine, chlorine can be deposited in fat cells, staying there for a long time without us knowing exactly what long term effects are in store, this was approved in around 1981, I believe, but that wasn't that long ago! And as far as your theory about if it wasn't safe it wouldn't be sold...... The still sell cigarettes and we know there long term effects. I just don't see how if there's even a tiny bit of doubt, concerning something your putting into your body, why anyone would risk it for a couple of pounds they think.... they may lose!
I don't know anyone who would claim that diet soda is "healthy", due to the chemicals and artificial sweeteners in it. However, this is once again a situation of "everything in moderation". If you are dieting, as I have been for the past three months, a diet soda once a day to stave off a sweet tooth works wonders.
And as for those who say it "makes" you eat more - that's just a cop out. Weak willpower "makes" you eat more. Three months ago, I decided to lose the excess weight I've been carrying around for the past few years. I now keep track of all my calories and nutrition, and stick to a mostly healthy diet, which includes diet soda and the occasional snack, as a reward for keeping to my diet. So far, 12 weeks and I've lost 18 pounds. I couldn't be happier.
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