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No. Sugar bad, artificial sweeteners good. It's clear-cut. I've heard of dental issues with carbonated drinks but that's a separate issue.
What is the point of non-diet soft drinks?
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Water is just better for you. I am not at all on the diet-drinks-are-worse-than-everything train—if you have to mainline a carbonated beverage, diet soda is waaaaayyy less harmful than regular soda (or sugared lemonade / iced tea etc). But it doesn't hydrate you, doesn't satiate you, and if I can believe anything extra bad about it it's that probably still contributes to tooth decay.
I was a lifelong diet soda drinker and switched almost exclusively to water a couple of years ago. It makes a difference.
Diet MDew and Coke Zero taste good to me so I sacrifice some taste for no calories. 250 calories is a good chunk of your daily value.
Yes, if health is my concern, i would drink water, reduce sugar, carbs, go running daily, lift weights, quit my desk job. yada yada.
Yes, if health is my concern, i would drink water, reduce sugar, carbs, go running daily, lift weights, quit my desk job. yada yada.
You shouldn't be drinking diet or regular soda everyday.
I only drink soda with certain foods (i.e. burgers and pizza for the most part) and otherwise just drink water or the occasional iced tea.
Acidic drinks fuck up your teeth, it's not really about carbonated or not
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I'm not sure that we could categorically say that artificial sweeteners are good per say, I mean sugar is bad, but surely if you were that concerned about what you were consuming, you'd be drinking water.
Nah. I've drank diet soda by accident a couple of times and could taste the fake sugar immediately.
I just HATE the taste of diet and every time before I try one I think "maybe this one will be different" but no, they always taste like old candy
I am so SURPRISE that people can drink diet drinks, so I rather drink home-water than diet drinks
I am so SURPRISE that people can drink diet drinks, so I rather drink home-water than diet drinks
Yep, diet sodas have this weird taste to them that I can only imagine tastes like the secretions from Satan's asshole.
I limit my soda intake to about 0-2 sodas a month.
Diet tastes pretty awful so I like to treat myself to the real thing every now and then.
Diet tastes pretty awful so I like to treat myself to the real thing every now and then.
for diabetics to fix their low blood sugar in a jiffy
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That's good, if you're not addicted no point to try to change anything.
Exactly. The sugar problem might be a problem for those that drink sodas every day but at that point i doubt a sugarless soda will help you much.
if you regularly drink regular soda, you will think that diet soda tastes disgusting when you first start out, once you get used to them it sort of reverses, all of a sudden the diet sodas all taste great and the regular sodas taste waaayy too sugary, atleast thats how my experience went.
I only drink diet for personal reasons. I LOVE pop and to me that's just what you drink with a meal. I know that's a shitty habbit but it's how I grew up and it's hard to shake. But anyway, at 21 I was diagnosed with severe insulin resistance and nearly fucking died from it and it was all due to how much sugar I took in by combined with a sedentary lifestyle. So these days I limit sugary treats and only drink diet because holy shit I never want to go through that again.
Taste like some shitty medicine parent made my take as a kid, the diet soda that taste like cough medicine is Doctor Pepper lol
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I am 100% certain I could tell the difference between Diet Coke and regular Coke in any kind of double blind test. They don't really taste anything like each other.
I am highly certain I could label a glass of Coke Zero and regular Coke correctly.
I am *mostly* sure if you gave me one glass and asked me to label it Coke Zero or regular Coke I would guess correctly. That would be the trickiest one.
I like diet soda, but regular soda definitely does taste better(outside of maybe Diet Pepsi/Pepsi Max).
Artificial sweeteners may mess with how your brain processes sugar intake as well. I notice that I consume less sugar overall if I drink regular soda instead of diet.
Bruh... no. Just drink water or tea. No need to throw an unregulated dose of bacterial slurry into the mix.
I would gladly switch to diet soda only were it not for the fact that diet soda tastes like fucking shit. I'm completely fine with water and regular soda sparingly
They are sweet and tasty. I only indulge in the real deal on special occasions, but you're fooling yourself if you think there isn't a difference, even with how awesome Coke Zero Sugar and Pepsi Max are.
This is a bad topic OP. I drink only diet soda, but full sugar sodas do tend to taste better. Sure, Coke Zero is great, but stuff like Orange soda is much better with sugar. Mountain Dew regular is also way better than diet.
You not agreeing is merely opinion, most of the world loves their sugar sodas.
You not agreeing is merely opinion, most of the world loves their sugar sodas.
Totally agree with this. I wonder if you can reverse it again?
Stop being a prick this is clearly a subjective thing. Get over yourself.
Artificial sweeteners taste horrible.
I don't tend to drink fizzy drinks anyway, but I had a (non-diet) Sprite the other day and it just tastes like fizzy aspartame.
I don't tend to drink fizzy drinks anyway, but I had a (non-diet) Sprite the other day and it just tastes like fizzy aspartame.
The only correct answer is "mind your fucking business."
Sugared sodas taste better than diet sodas. They are less healthy than diet sodas (which, in turn, are less healthy than water). It's up to individual people to decide how much of any of them they want to drink. Seriously proposing banning foods and drinks for lack of nutritional content is an endless, nonsensical rabbit hole which almost nobody would support. Give me a serious justification for keeping beer legal and banning soda.
Sugared sodas taste better than diet sodas. They are less healthy than diet sodas (which, in turn, are less healthy than water). It's up to individual people to decide how much of any of them they want to drink. Seriously proposing banning foods and drinks for lack of nutritional content is an endless, nonsensical rabbit hole which almost nobody would support. Give me a serious justification for keeping beer legal and banning soda.
It did for me.
Can't drink normal coke anymore. The taste is way too sweet for me nowadays.
But i also don't like the taste of diet coke. Only Coke-Zero tastes good to me.
Diet soda tastes bad. I've went and changed any time I drank soda to diet for a few months before and it still tasted like shit. It's entirely subjective whether or not you enjoy it.
If I'm going to drink an unhealthy drink, I'll drink the better tasting one.
If I'm going to drink an unhealthy drink, I'll drink the better tasting one.
you said 'great taste'; I would think a lot of people would disagree.
Haha, same for me, even the diets taste so different it's kinda funny. I'm slave of Pepsi Max, maximum taste my friend.
I used to think all diet sodas tasted like garbage. But then I got older and my tastes changed. Normal sodas felt too sweet, along with very sugary candies and drinks. I started switching to diet soda and realized I liked them now. It's kind of like when I first had wine or coffee, I thought they were too bitter and nasty. Now I love them.
The only diet soda I still can't stand is any of the Mt. Dews. They have a wicked aftertaste that I can't get over. But Diet Coke and Diet Dr Pepper are a daily necessity (along with a White Monster Zero Ultra).
The only diet soda I still can't stand is any of the Mt. Dews. They have a wicked aftertaste that I can't get over. But Diet Coke and Diet Dr Pepper are a daily necessity (along with a White Monster Zero Ultra).