[jmh80]

I just wanted to say in regards to formaldehyde - there is more of that in an apple than 12 oz of a diet soda.

There is formaldehyde in a WHOLE lot of foods. It's a matter of concentration though, broski's.

[planetfuzz]

Why drink diet soda?? Water is free and it has zero calories.

[Hbs6]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

It is soooo true, and that is one of the most frustrating parts of a science career, you'll find at least one reference to support whichever claim you wish to make, and the other way around ... :
HAHA, I found a few science nerds here on AM, after all that I don't have any energy left for frustration over my work

yeah science is good stuff...

[Hbs6]

Originally Posted by TripDog

I drink diet dew like its my JOB!!!

I think they put crack in that stuff I love it too...

[ecu19]

Originally Posted by jmh80

I just wanted to say in regards to formaldehyde - there is more of that in an apple than 12 oz of a diet soda.

There is formaldehyde in a WHOLE lot of foods. It's a matter of concentration though, broski's.

To play on that, I read up about fruit juice having methanol in it. Couldn't find the amount though..

[mister ed]

Not that I am discounting any arguments made here, but I ran across this while sipping a diet coke today...

thanks

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20040...efforts?page=2

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in701408.shtml

For regular soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:
• 26 percent for up to 1/2 can each day
• 30.4 percent for 1/2 to one can each day
• 32.8 percent for 1 to 2 cans each day
• 47.2 percent for more than 2 cans each day.
For diet soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:
• 36.5 percent for up to 1/2 can each day
• 37.5 percent for 1/2 to one can each day
• 54.5 percent for 1 to 2 cans each day
• 57.1 percent for more than 2 cans each day.
For each can of diet soft drink consumed each day, a person's risk of obesity went up 41 percent.


The Mad Hatter Theory

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "It's very easy to take more than nothing."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

There is actually a way that diet drinks could contribute to weight gain, Fowler suggests.

She remembers being struck by the scene in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice is offended because she is offered tea but is given none — even though she hadn't asked for tea in the first place. So she helps herself to tea and bread and butter.

That may be just what happens when we offer our bodies the sweet taste of diet drinks, but give them no calories. Fowler points to a recent study in which feeding artificial sweeteners to rat pups made them crave more calories than animals fed real sugar.

"If you offer your body something that tastes like a lot of calories, but it isn't there, your body is alerted to the possibility that there is something there and it will search for the calories promised but not delivered," Fowler says.

Perhaps, Bonci says, our bodies are smarter than we think.

"People think they can just fool the body. But maybe the body isn't fooled," she says. "If you are not giving your body those calories you promised it, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. Some soft drink studies do suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite."

[Hbs6]

you can look at it that way, or you can just think...people are ****ing stupid and when fat people drink diet soda they think they have more leeway with the food they are eating because that is what stupid fat people do. THey find all different ways to get fatter. My obese fat friend...drops booze for lent...then he promptly picks up sweets and ****...it never fails.

[mister ed]

hey now, i'm not trying to hate on fat people here... I was just bringing up a point about some of the possible negative aspects of diet sodas and artificial sweetners.

[robdog]

Originally Posted by Bumbaclaat

I drink a lot of Vitamin Water now instead of diet sodas...probably not that much of a difference, but its not carbonated!!!

And its full of sugar.

[Hbs6]

Originally Posted by mister ed

hey now, i'm not trying to hate on fat people here... I was just bringing up a point about some of the possible negative aspects of diet sodas and artificial sweetners.

oh...well i was trying to hate on fat people

[Nacho1545]

Well, I used to have a Big Mac and a Diet Coke all the time (before I started the diet).. What can I say...

[dragonfly]

Originally Posted by Hbs6

you can look at it that way, or you can just think...people are ****ing stupid and when fat people drink diet soda they think they have more leeway with the food they are eating because that is what stupid fat people do. THey find all different ways to get fatter. My obese fat friend...drops booze for lent...then he promptly picks up sweets and ****...it never fails.

True, there are a few cheesecake & zero coke girls where I work, they are in their early 20ies but have a physique of a 60 year old diabetic woman who is just about to undergo a bypass surgery… Why are people so dumb ?

[dragonfly]

Originally Posted by mister ed

Not that I am discounting any arguments made here, but I ran across this while sipping a diet coke today...

thanks

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20040...efforts?page=2

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in701408.shtml

Agreed, one reason why it is so easy to over-consume junk and "diet food" is because it is devoid of nutrients, the body does retaliate and wants more food 'hoping" to get some useful stuff and not just empty calories

[plenny]

Originally Posted by TripDog

I drink diet dew like its my JOB!!!

me too. taste like regular dew. but after reading all these horror stories my diet dew days are slowly coming to an end.