Question about diet pop/soda

[luvofallhorses]

I am so addicted to diet pepsi. I try to drink water and juice and cut back on the soda.

[Catty1]

I like getting cranberry and other juice mixes and blending them with water or fizzy water (mineral water, though there is low sodium soda water). Make sure they are JUICES, not cocktails. The juices will show just grape juice and other natural sweeteners.

I find they are sweet enough, which is why I dilute them.

All pops contain phosphorus, which leeches calcium out of the body. Yuk!

Still haven't quite quit all the diet pop, though.

Some pops - orange crush, Jones Soda - use Splenda, a reverse sugar molecule. At least it's not aspartame.

Catty1

[Nomilynn]

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp


It's amazing what people will try to say about a product.

As far as glucose goes, glucose is sugar, and if it's in a soft drink it cannot be sold as diet. (I forget what the PPM threshhold is, but if there is any sugar in a soda at all it cannot be sold as diet). The sugar in Soda is normally High fructose corn syrup, or HFCS.

THANK YOU for posting this. If you limit the amount of aspartame you take in (just as you would limit the amount of just about ANYTHING you take it) it is not harmful. I am a diabetic and I drink diet drinks on a regular basis.

Make sure that for every caffeinated drink you drink 2x the water. For example, 1 can of diet pepsi should amount to 2 glasses of water. Caffeine will cause you to become dehydrated, not aspartame.

[christa]

Aspartame may not be dangerous but it sure does give me a MIGRAINE!

I don't have as much of a problem with DIET SODA as I do with what accompanies the drink. You can drink all the diet soda you want . . . you drink it with a big mac and fries and you're going to get fat. Are you going to blame that on the diet soda? Probably. You drink a diet soda with a grilled chicken breast and some fresh veggies . . . you might drop 20 pounds. Then who knows, once you start loosing weight, you might consider loosing the sodas all together. Diet soda is an addiction, I've seen it from a lot of people and once you can kick it, you don't crave it anymore.

Okay, that's all I have to say.