Drinking diet fizzy drinks?

I used to drink a lot of regular fizzy drinks, and having an urge to lose a bit of excess weight I switched to diet drinks as I can drink up to 2 litres a day.

However, having just read.. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...d-to-food.aspx


I think I may be switching the Coke Zero for something else.

[Bibio]

i have been telling people for years no to go near the stuff but everyone thinks i wear a tinfoil hat.

stop drinking fizzy drinks and drink fruit juices (100%).

oooohh and another side effect of drinking fizzy drinks with sweeteners, they make you more thirsty so you end up drinking more of them.

[littleoldman2]

A bit of a biased article particularly the bit about it being three chemicals when its clearly just one. If we got concerned about all methylester containing products both natural (fruit, all vegetable oils and wines for starters) and synthetic we would have to avoid a lot of foods. But it also highlights the dangers of MSG. Phenylalanine is in nearly all chocolates as well. The methylester group is were the methanol comes from.
Must also be in beer cos something make my better half irritable and its not me.
Slightly off topic but there is no requirement in the UK to list the ingredients in beer, wines and spirits, perhaps its time there was.

Cobblers, all of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparta...health_effects

[littleoldman2]

Another link. http://www.sweetenerbook.com/aspartame.html showing structure.
There's plenty of info out there. On a personnel note I try to avoid it and MSG among others so I buy almost nothing preprepared or ready cooked. Its very difficult to avoid all food additives you only have to look how very red most meat is and how bright green tinned peas are as two of many examples.

Originally Posted by Bibio

i have been telling people for years no to go near the stuff but everyone thinks i wear a tinfoil hat.

stop drinking fizzy drinks and drink fruit juices (100%).

oooohh and another side effect of drinking fizzy drinks with sweeteners, they make you more thirsty so you end up drinking more of them.

Even the fruit juice is a sugar bomb without the rest of the fruit.

Eating whole fruit and drinking water is the best from a health perspective.

Originally Posted by Bibio

i have been telling people for years no to go near the stuff but everyone thinks i wear a tinfoil hat.

stop drinking fizzy drinks and drink fruit juices (100%).

oooohh and another side effect of drinking fizzy drinks with sweeteners, they make you more thirsty so you end up drinking more of them.

Very bad advice, fruit juice is worse than fizzy drinks as it contains huge amounts of fructose. dont forget that a glass of orange juice could be like eating 8 oranges ar once. Its like having an innocent smoothie for breakfast you will be eating 4 apples 2 oranges 12 grapes ..... Etc

Pick diet drinks sweetened by sucralose or drink water

Theres a lot of hype around fizzy pops causing health problems, i know a few that wont touch coke but will happily drink/smoke all day... Figure that one?

Originally Posted by EssexDave

However, having just read.. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...d-to-food.aspx


I think I may be switching the Coke Zero for something else.

He seems to be hawking an awful lot of stuff via that website for someone with your best interests at heart.

All fizzy drinks are not good for you, so drinking 2 litres a day is a big no no.

I have a mild case of irritable bowel syndrome, i have to keep an eye on what I eat and drink, some foods and drinks in excess are a trigger to bad guts for me.

Fizzy pop is something I can't drink much of, I generally have a glass of coke zero a day ( not everyday I must add, sometimes none), this I can cope with.

I drink more cordial tbh.

There is defo some grey areas around the health damage that some sweeteners can do, a lot of products in America that use sweeteners have cancer warnings printed on the labels.

As bib said, unsweetened pure fruit drinks are a lot safer, they may be high in natural sugars but natural products are far more healthy than chemicals and additives.

Finally, don't believe all the marketing hype, pepsi max, diet pepsi etc, all the same drink just different labels.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by specialone

As bib said, unsweetened pure fruit drinks are a lot safer, they may be high in natural sugars but natural products are far more healthy than chemicals and additives.

Just make sure you clean your teeth well - they can be very bad for the enamel as a lot of them are concentrated. As smoothies get more popular dentists are raking it in. As already said fresh fruit and water is an even safer bet health wise.