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What is the point of non-diet soft drinks?

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Artificial sweeteners (those deemed safe) have got to be among the top 5 inventions in recent human history. Great taste, no calories, no health issues unless you suffer from specific conditions. Getting used to the flavour is literally a matter of days or weeks, after which you'll find sugared drinks aggressively sweet. There is no turning back. Why would anyone get a sugar coke over a diet coke? For the sake of everybody's health, I wouldn't mind seeing non-diet drinks just taken off the shelves. Let people riot a week or three, laugh at their aspartame conspiracy theories, wait and watch the country's average BMI drop year by year.
All public health employees on Era are welcome to forward my idea to their superiors.
 
Chivalry

Chivalry

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Nov 22, 2018
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Sugar is tasty. They replaced the normal mtn. dew with the diet new mtn. dew here and it's atrocious.
 
White Glint

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Sugar free drinks taste horrible. I just drink water all day and will sometimes get a proper soda if I feel like it.
 

Adventureracing

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I'm assuming people like them. Personally I've given away soft drinks all together, still haven't had one this year. I still get cravings which is even more incentive not to go back.

Personally I'm trying to limit how manny calories I drink. It's so easy to consume far more than you think and it's more fun eating anyway. I mostly just drink tea and water (and tea has so many flavours!).
 
Martinski

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The aftertaste of diet sodas arent that great all that often. Sometimes you want the real thing. High fructose corn syrup can gtfo tho.
 
Arkestry

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My logic has always been that if you want to eat healthy, eat healthy. If you want something that is sweet and sugary and bad for you, don't adulterate it by getting the version that uses inferior ingredients.
 

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I am not on a diet.

I drink a couple of cans of drink a month, if at all, so I will always go full sugar.
 
Chivalry

Chivalry

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Adventureracing said:
I'm assuming people like them. Personally I've given away soft drinks all together, still haven't had one this year. I still get cravings which is even more incentive not to go back.

Personally I'm trying to limit how manny calories I drink. It's so easy to consume far more than you think and it's more fun eating anyway. I mostly just drink tea and water (and tea has so many flavours!).
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What's stopping you from drinking diet soda? No calories there.
 
Wintermute

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we started a sugar tax in the uk, not sure what kind of effect it's had on consumption, but one of the outcomes was that drink makers either reduced the amount of sugar in their drinks, or the total size of the drink. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43659124

it's a public health crisis and needs to be treated as such. companies need to be incentivised or threatened into reducing the amount of sugar they use.
 
Grouch Douglass

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Nov 9, 2017
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Diet Dr Pepper is a godsend in my house. I just buy a 12 pack and it lasts me for like a month. Haven't had a real soda in months, don't miss em at all really.
 
VISION

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Arkestry said:
My logic has always been that if you want to eat healthy, eat healthy. If you want something that is sweet and sugary and bad for you, don't adulterate it by getting the version that uses inferior ingredients.
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Okay lol. Good logic. Enjoy your diabetes and obesity I guess. Next time I'll make sure to pick up some heroin instead of Tylenol since they're both bad for my organs.
 
Jokab

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Shugga said:
Yes coke zero tastes like shit too
They'll fuck up your mouth anyway so don't get addicted to that shit in the first place.
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You got sources on this? Personally I drink a can of Coke Zero pretty much every day, and have been for a year or so, and I just recently got the lowest possible premium on my dental insurance. They told me my teeth were simply excellent.
 
Mikebison

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I can only assume people who think they taste the same are missing most of their tastebuds from sticking it in an electrical socket.

Diet coke tastes like ass.
Coke zero tastes like ass.

Pepsi Max tastes better than regular Pepsi however.
 
Woolley

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Oct 25, 2017
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Diet sodas taste gross and aren't healthy. If I'm gonna drink something that's bad for me I might as well drink something that tastes good.
 
Arkestry

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VISION said:
Okay lol. Good logic. Enjoy your diabetes and obesity I guess. Next time I'll make sure to pick up some heroin instead of Tylenol since they're both bad for my organs.
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You've misunderstood. Unhealthy stuff is a treat, so what's the point having a 'healthy' imitation of that treat. Just don't eat/drink it to excess and you can enjoy the full version.
 
hydruxo

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Well they don't taste awful for starters. Anything with Splenda in it is pretty much guaranteed to taste bad. That being said I rarely drink soda these days anyways.
 
Duxxy3

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Because honestly I feel a bit down if I drink too many coke zero's in a row. Regular old coke makes me feel less shitty.

I actually like the taste of coke zero, but I prefer the taste of regular coke.
 
jph139

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VISION said:
Okay lol. Good logic. Enjoy your diabetes and obesity I guess. Next time I'll make sure to pick up some heroin instead of Tylenol since they're both bad for my organs.
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I mean, if heroin's only negative side effect was long-term organ health I'd probably be doing a lot more heroin.
 

NuclearCake

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Oct 27, 2017
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I rarely drink this stuff and it makes no sense to buy a diet drink if the mood for a coke strikes me once in a while. Why would i spend money on a much worse tasting drink? Soft drinks are unhealthy either way.
 
astro

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Oct 25, 2017
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Imp the Dimp said:
Artificial sweeteners (those deemed safe) have got to be among the top 5 inventions in recent human history. Great taste, no calories, no health issues unless you suffer from specific conditions. Getting used to the flavour is literally a matter of days or weeks, after which you'll find sugared drinks aggressively sweet. There is no turning back. Why would anyone get a sugar coke over a diet coke? For the sake of everybody's health, I wouldn't mind seeing non-diet drinks just taken off the shelves. Let people riot a week or three, laugh at their aspartame conspiracy theories, wait and watch the country's average BMI drop year by year.
All public health employees on Era are welcome to forward my idea to their superiors.
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Artificial sweeteners don't taste great, though.
 
kamakazi5

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Oct 28, 2017
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Kudo said:
I used to think so too but now trying regular red Coke after years of Pepsi Max it just tastes plain too sweet.
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Now that I have heard as well. You get used to the taste and have issues with regular sofa later. I'd like to get to that point but I just can't get myself to drink them long enough to get used to the taste.

I just keep my consumption to a minimum and tend to not worry a out it.
 
IronicSonic

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Oct 25, 2017
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There are probably some double blind experiments out there to see if the taste of diet vs normal soda are really that different. My take: they taste the same!
 
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