I have heard diet sodas are not completely ok?
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First off I don't know why people put them selves through drinking a diet soda- Yuck!!!!!
But yes they might not have sugar but they have syrupe and carbon dioxide and artifical sweetener. Carbon dioxide makes you bloat, which can make you look heavier, defeating the purpose. Its better to choose a soda alternitive altogether. I beat my soda cravings. I found raspberry ice tea (unsweetened) at Sonic or the bottled green tea by snaple. These have less calories than reg. soda and taste a hole lot better than diet drinks and no carbon dioxide. But ofcourse water is best, but if your in the mood for somthing different tea is great and come in serveral flavors.
I've heard the same thing. I went to a nutritionist because my blood sugars were too high and she recommended a little artificial sweeteners as possible as well as avoiding soda.
I spoke to a pharmacist; she stopped drinking most soda as well because of the news that's going around.
Since I now drink flavored seltzer and water (with lemon), my morning sugars are about 100-150 points lower than they were.
Good luck with whatever you decide!
the chemicals are very harmful. i wouldnt drink them. i use to drink 8 diet sodas a day and i was always tired and tummy was always hurting. it causes may other health problems also. i feel 100% better since i started drinking only water. aspartame breaks down into embalming fluid. do you really wanna put that in your body??
There are things in even diet sodas that can cause you to retain fluid and don't necessarily promote weight loss...water is always the best, and after that non-caffinated/non-carbonated drinks...
I haven’t had a full-sugar soda in several years, but I still enjoy a few diet sodas a week. And, I've occasionally heard, off-handedly, that diet sodas can cause tooth decay just as their full-sugar cousins can. For what it’s worth, I switched to diet soda for the caloric savings, not specifically for the dental advantages (I almost typed “dental benefits” there, but that would have had an entirely different connotation than I intended.) However, as I like to have healthy teeth, I didn’t really want to drink beverages that might work against that (assuming that the notion was true).
A couple months back, I applied my Google-fu and though to get to the bottom of this. As it turns out, it was harder than I thought since some dental professionals said that diet soda doesn’t cause tooth decay while other dental folks said that diet soda does cause tooth decay. Yeesh. At the time, I just gave up on the question and made a mental note to revisit the issue later.
Well, I tried Googling again today and I came across a more definitive answer. One resource that looked promising was a pamphlet sent to parents from the Ohio Dental Association:
While excessive sugar is not healthy, it’s the acid in diet and regular soda that can damage tooth enamel and cause cavities and tooth decay. Acid can begin to harm tooth enamel in only 20 minutes.
That just about concluded my search, though I checked Google once more to see if I could find a national (or international) source in addition to this state-wide source. And, I came across this message from the Academy of General Dentistry about diet soda:
Drinking carbonated soft drinks regularly can contribute to the erosion of tooth enamel surfaces, according to the Academy of General Dentistry.
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Because saliva helps neutralize acids and wash your teeth clean, the worst time to drink soda pop, ironically, is when you are very thirsty or dehydrated due to low levels of saliva. “The larger the volume of intake, the more impact soda pop has on your teeth,” says Gordon Isbell, III, DDS, MAGD, a spokesdentist for the Academy of General Dentistry. “Diet sodas are part of the problem. Women especially like to drink them throughout the day and between meals because they have no calories, yet the higher frequency and volume is putting their teeth at risk.”
It Seem Like You Just Answer Your Own Question... But Yeah Diet Soda Is Bad Either Way. So Just Stick To Juice And Water And The Mighty Milk!
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