The Press Fans Overblown Fears
About Diet Soda—Again
Reason,
by
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/6/2019 9:55:26 AM
"I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke," tweeted Donald Trump, himself a frequent consumer of diet soda, back in 2012. Besides being an amusing self-own, Trump's comment helps explain the trouble with most research on diet drinks—including a new study that's been making the media rounds this week.
"It doesn't matter if it's sugary or diet: New study links all soda to an early death," reported The Washington Post on September 4. It was one of many similar headlines. The implication of all of them was clear: Zero-calorie cola is a big fat lie, and if you don't ditch it now you're staring down a premature grave.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
southernboy 9/6/2019 11:00:23 AM (No. 173069)
It's the bag of salty potato chips downed with the soda that does you in!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/6/2019 11:52:25 AM (No. 173126)
The problem is, it isn't sugar you are drinking in the sodas. It is high fructose CORN syrup. That stuff is the biggest problem. I gave up my soda habit over a year ago, and I have dropped fructose sweeteners of all types in my diet. Even bread has the stuff. I have dropped two sizes in weight, I feel so much better now, and soda tastes really weird to me after not having had it for so long.
My stomach loves me again, and I love getting back into clothes I haven't worn in years. The Mexicans are smart people, they will not drink the fructose sodas, they will only allow sugar version to be imported into Mexico. It is spendy but the difference in your stomach after having one is very noticeable.
Journalists need to get a clue. That isn't a sugary drink they are slamming, that is high fructose corn syrup. Sugar is not the problem.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 9/6/2019 12:14:19 PM (No. 173145)
People like what they like. TK lives on Diet Pepsi. He drinks four cases of 20 every week. He's been drinking it for his whole adult life. We make a small fortune in recycling the cans. He's an active and healthy 73. I used to drink 6-8 cans a day when I was working. (Neither of us do coffee.) I'm mostly water now because its easier to have with me clearing my trails in the forest, but I enjoy a can or two a day.
Its not about sugar or corn syrup. Its about control over people's personal habits under the ruse of concern for health. The only reason the public has concern over the health of the individual is the insufferable interference of government in health care. If we had more free market solutions for health insurance and personal responsibility for the consequences of diet and lifestyle choices, we would once again have true privacy in the doctor's office.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/6/2019 1:07:19 PM (No. 173176)
Sodas are cans full of chemicals and I quit drinking them about 9 years ago. These days it’s water and one cup of caffeinated coffee per day. #2 is right about stomach problems - if you have acid reflux stay far far away from sodas.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hermoine 9/6/2019 1:12:06 PM (No. 173182)
Add the overblown vaping fears...meanwhile, marijuana is being added to lollipops, gummi bears and brownies.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/6/2019 1:40:52 PM (No. 173201)
My last visit to see my cardiologist made me chuckle, I saw him going down a hallway with a can of Diet Dr. Pepper. We all have our guilty pleasures.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 9/6/2019 1:47:07 PM (No. 173207)
The very selective concerns of progressives intrigue me. No cokes, straws, or meat for the serfs but a 12 year old lopping off their breasts or genitals or better yet getting an abortion on the tax payer dime and without parental knowledge is hunky dory to these evil people.
As for the actual topic, I don't do cokes except on vacation or with pizza which is rare. i never do fake sugar, ever. I have no taste for it. That said, i dislike quack science even more. Chemically and nutritionally, sugar is sugar. Too much of it is damaging to your body whether it be syrup, white, brown, honey or agave nector. It's all sugar and all breaks down to the same stuff in the end. Anecdotal faux science miraculous cures seldom report that this new awareness of healthy eating and a need for change on the part of the patient is also accompanied by being more health proactive, more dietarily aware, and taking more excercise.... which actually accounts for the reported weight loss and a general increase in well being.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pros7767 9/6/2019 2:58:29 PM (No. 173237)
Amen #3.
Been drinking diet soda since college, back in the days of Tab! Thin and healthy. I don't think my body would know what to do without it!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 9/6/2019 3:37:23 PM (No. 173264)
I'll tell you what's unhealthy: The salad bar. Have you ever paid attention to the people eating from the salad bar? They are all fat. Grass makes cows fat. The people eating steaks and burgers are all thin, healthy and handsome/beautiful- and much happier!
/s/
Beer is much better for you than soda- sugary, or not.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley 9/6/2019 4:14:46 PM (No. 173296)
Who cares about another stupid study? Does the noun "study" somehow make it more accurate or more urgent?
Do what makes you happy, without regard to the opinions of strangers. Worrying about all this bogus science will steal more years from you than any diet, and will steal the quality from those years.
There is an easy formula that I have mentioned here several times. If you see "study" used as a noun, run. Its probably wrong.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 9/6/2019 4:17:38 PM (No. 173299)
I have 2 Pepsi’s a year during my semi annual trip to Taco Bell. And it’s sooooo delicious. At night I fill up a big glass with half water and fill with lemonade and a splash of cranberry juice. Yum. Soda is just not healthy be it regular or diet.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
worried 9/6/2019 5:36:29 PM (No. 173333)
Been drinking soda all my life - 85+ years. Still no big problems, except some arthritis. Also, in my younger days drank my share of beer. Like #8 infers, a diet of beef and beer is great for you!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
worried 9/6/2019 5:37:05 PM (No. 173334)
Oops! I meant #9! Sorry!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/7/2019 2:53:18 AM (No. 173547)
I love my Diet Coke and no one better try taking that from me. I started with Tab then went on to DC. I've been drinking the stuff for over 40 years. These 'studies' give mice something like 500 times the amount of caffeine and artificial sweetener in a normal diet drink and when a tumor grows, they say it's what happens when you drink it. No, not so.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 9/7/2019 10:05:31 AM (No. 173766)
There are relatively few posters on this site who been here longer than I have, and even fewer I enjoy as much as TQ. So it pains me to hear that we have finally come to a disagreement so painfully fundamental that no common ground can ever exist.
Diet Coke is the sweet, dark elixir of liquid joy, and to hear that TK is drinking the other thing pains me greatly. Still, this is a great and diverse country within a wide and wonderful world. Perhaps we can move past this one profound disagreement and continue to enjoy our respective sodas as much as I will always enjoy your company on this forum.
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There is no doubt that sodas are empty calories and that sugar and artificial sweeteners are mostly bad, but the hysteria is a bit much. Typical liberals.