Diet coke - is it really so bad?

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The therapist that does my facials was horrified when I mentioned I drink diet coke. On the whole I have pretty good skin but she claims it wreaks havoc on face and body alike.

In fact she couldn't have been more horrified if I had confessed a crack addiction.

It's going to be hard to give up so just wondering if it's worth it?

Wrong thread!

Lola the Herring Gutter..., actually I think I won't ask, it sounds a bit scary.

I think Diet Coke is worth cutting out any minute now, but definitely by the end of this month as I said but as for why would you drink it, there actually isn't much else out there that is fizzy (so makes you feel you've had something and feel full), sweet, and basically has no calories. I know they sound like terrible attributes, but they do reduce eating. There are things like sprite zero but they are just as bad for you. It is also very addictive and if you don't drink coffee or tea, a source of caffeine to wake you up. I think the odd can is fine but if you can't keep it down to that it isn't worth all the side effects and/or potential side effects. Plus it is expensive!

I had a regular coke the other day, yucky stuff.

Lol yummypickledeggs, you've linked to the article I'd already linked to

The link between smoking and cancer wasn't 'conclusive' for years and years- even though there was plenty of evidence out there. And even now some manufacturers dispute it.

On the other hand yummy, the link between the mmr vaccine and autism wasn't conclusive even though there was plenty of 'evidence' out there ......and look how that turned out.

Grim

Drink water

How did it turn out? As far as I know the link was never proved.[ and that's surely another thread]

Anyhoo- vaccines aren't food.

More people are ill and die by eating the wrong food ( diabetes, heart disease, cancer) than by smoking so why consume junk? No brainer really.

I think it's fair enough to avoid food of little or no nutritional value, but it's a bit unnecessary (and scaremongery) to repeat spurious claims and dodgy science as fact.

The link between phosphoric acid and calcium depletion hasn't been proven (although the link with other food items has been proven but it's not often that anyone talks about that), aspartame hasn't been found to be harmful, and no reputable organisation is advising you not to drink cola because it is harmful.

Until that changes, I still think it can be enjoyed in moderation and guilt free by people who choose to do so.

It's listening to this sort of stuff repeated as fact that resulted in the therapist's over-reaction in the first place.

I'm just saying that because one initially inconclusive
link (smoking and cancer) turned out to be true doesn't mean they all do. After all the controversy and so called evidence, the research was dodgy and MMR wasn't linked to autism. If something is inconclusive it can go either way.

Diet coke might turn out to be dangerous. It might not. In the meantime I'm of the everything in moderation school of thought.

I used to drink at least a can of diet coke a day - sometimes more. I've cut down to a couple a week and I can't say I've noticed much difference to my skin (or anything else).

But it is good not to feel addicted to something. Cutting down was much easier than I expected - it's a habit, not a physical addiction.

yummy the link wasnt proven. The Dr who started the controversy was shown to have falsified his research.

I'm a pepsi max addict, drinking it daily. I'm not a tea or coffee drinker so maybe it's where I get my caffeine hit. I do think it's a bit of an addiction.

Probably not great for my teeth. But other health scare stories, rightly or wrongly, don't worry me. In every other respect I'm pretty healthy - eat well, don't smoke, rarely drink alcohol, runner.

nequidnimis

The link we both posted didn't prove it but it was a proper trial and if you read right down that page on the link it refers to loss of bone density in women who drank fizzy drinks.

here

Fizzy drinks and osteoporosis: The cola connection

New research indicates there may be more to the fizzy drinks and osteoporosis connection than simply replacing something that’s good for you with something that’s not.

Researchers at Tufts University in the US, studying several thousand men and women, found that women who regularly drank cola-based drinks - three or more a day - had almost four percent lower bone mineral density in the hip, even though researchers controlled for calcium and vitamin D intake. But women who drank non-cola soft drinks didn't appear to have lower bone density

I'm wondering if you just read the 1st couple of paragraphs because the info further down did draw a link- it's just that with all these things there has to be a lot of research to actually 'prove' something- and usually the research is limited because it needs funding.

Yes I read the whole article (and several more).

Then I went and read around the original research, and did my best to drill into the detail.

Not just today you understand, but previously.

Then I made a properly informed decision that wasn't based on Daily Express headlines, websites with an axe to grind or the assertions of anonymous internet users.