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    Study: Diet Soda Increases the Risk of Diabetes. Why Do We Still Drink This Stuff?

    Yet another study confirms what people have been saying for ages: Stop drinking diet soda. Like, right now. Drinking just one 12-ounce can of an artificially sweetened fizzy drink per week can increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 33 percent, French researchers found, and given that most people don't stop at a single weekly serving, your real risk for diabetes could actually be much higher.

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    Why you SHOULD drink diet soda

    It'll get you DRUNK!



    If you insist on ruining whatever liquor you're drinking by mixing it with something other than ice, then you might as well make it some sort of diet soda. Why? Because it will get you almost 20% drunker, according to a recently released study. http://gawker.com/5982327/mixing-boo...u-much-drunker
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    Default Re: Why you shouldn't drink diet soda

    it does worse things than that. soda rots your teeth, your insides, ages your skin, i've also heard it decreases fertility.never touch the shit

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    I don't touch the stuff anymore, regular or diet. Cuts your wind and a bunch of other bad stuff. Had a diet coke after not having any kind of soda for months and it tasted horrible anyway lol.

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    I drink diet soda I know it's really bad. I justify it to myself because I don't drink alcohol or drugs but I know I should just cut it out completely. It's my only vice lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by simone87 View Post
    it does worse things than that. soda rots your teeth, your insides, ages your skin, i've also heard it decreases fertility.never touch the shit
    *puts diet coke on grocery list*

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    Quote Originally Posted by tuesdaymarie View Post
    *puts diet coke on grocery list*
    haha, i read it decreases sperm count, but it would probably decrease fertility in women too!

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    the one thing I wonder about studies that link diet soda to obesity and diabetes....rarely do they account for the fact that people who are healthiest rarely drink any type of soda. Also, people with weight issues (obesity and diabetes are linked) are more likely than average to drink diet soda than regular soda (or something ideal such as water). Correlation doesn't equal causation.

    I'm not arguing that diet soda is healthy, it's not. All I'm saying is that it could be a situation wherein people more vulnerable to diabetes due to more pronounced food cravings, higher BMIs and an overall unhealthy lifestyle are more likely to drink diet soda. There does seem to be some causal link between consumption of aspartame and sugar cravings, but that doesn't necessarily mean that one must give into those cravings. Or, if one indulges those cravings with a piece of fruit rather than say, candy, does that risk for diabetes still remain? That ties back into the idea that people who make healthier food choices overall are less likely to drink soda. My point is that diet soda-diabetes is not a one to one correlation. Lifestyle and overall food choices are hugely implicated in health outcomes

    That said, if one struggles with weight and tends to have cravings for sweets, diet soda probably isn't a wise choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eagle2 View Post
    Why you shouldn't drink diet soda
    Cuz it tastes awful

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    Quote Originally Posted by MissSassyPickles View Post
    I drink diet soda I know it's really bad. I justify it to myself because I don't drink alcohol or drugs but I know I should just cut it out completely. It's my only vice lol
    Yeah, I'm in that camp too. I drink it more for a caffeine effect, I drink coffee for that too but get tired of it after a couple morning cups..A friend told me energy drinks, red bull etc. are much worse as they increase your heart rate or something


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    Love is on to something

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    To further expand on "love" points: Study is incomplete/flawed in that it fails to address what the subjects consumed in addition to diet soda. Could it be the giant size candy bars that they ate rather than the diet sodas, per se, that caused diabetes ? Many of the subjects may well be rationalizing "oh, the diet soda I'm now drinking has less calories than the regular soda I used to drink, so its OK to have that jelly filled doughnut."
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    When I worked fast food I remember thinking it was ironic when the customers would order three sandwiches, large fries and a diet soda, almost like they believed the diet soda stopped them from gaining weight. I admit that I drink far more soda than I should and it's partly because of the caffeine. I drink far more water than soda though and don't eat a lot of sweets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellydancer View Post
    When I worked fast food I remember thinking it was ironic when the customers would order three sandwiches, large fries and a diet soda, almost like they believed the diet soda stopped them from gaining weight. I admit that I drink far more soda than I should and it's partly because of the caffeine. I drink far more water than soda though and don't eat a lot of sweets.
    People that eat like that are not concerned about gaining weight. They are concerned about the sugar itself.
    I have an uncle who is diabetic that eats that way. The crappy food doesnt make him sick but the sugar from a reg soda would. He doesnt care that he is 300lbs. He just doesnt like the sugar shakes and refuses to see how it is all connected.
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    It's good he cut out sugar. If only he could cut his carbs too and get off that craving/crash train.
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