[JossFit]

http://www.prevention.com/food/healt...t-soda-bad-you

This isn't super scientific, but it's good food for thought if you are a big diet soda drinker.

[NYFLAgirl]

Thanks for posting this! Drinking diet soda is still a big issue for me with my weight loss. While it doesn't make me crave sugar or anything like that-I know the chemicals are really horrible for my body. I should just scroll through this slide show every day as a reminder!

[Arctic Mama]

Well unfortunately I am familiar with most of the studies they referenced but didn't cite and it is misleading, to say the least. Diet soda isn't healthy and never will be, the acidity of the drink is a bad thing, if nothing else. But a better predictor of health is habits and diet composition, in general, and hardly correlates to that single factor. There are incredibly healthy folks who have diet soda, and incredibly unhealthy folks who do, too. The empty drink is hardly a contributor, and they can't even be proven to demonstrably impact satiety or insulin response in a significant way. Until more and better studies come out, the caution should always be to mindfully consume as much real, nutritionally dense food as possible (to the point of satiety) and eschew empty junk for all but the rare occasion. Diet soda is no different.

And that's my .02 on the subject.

[Ms Shapen]

I was a Diet Coke-aholic. I was never without one in my hand - and I always seemed to be hungry. I often wondered if there was something in it to make a person hungry so he/she eats, and then needs something to wash the food down, so they get more DC.

I quit cold-turkey in June. Haven't had an ounce since.

McDonald's has the best DC outside of a bar and there have been several times when I thought about stopping to get one. (I thought of how that is similar to someone who quit smoking.) It was an addiction for me.

I drink water - and milk occasionally. I feel incredibly better and I sleep better.

[Spiritix]

It's kinda like a go-figure thing. No one expected diet soda to be "healthy", it just doesn't have calories, which helps people who're cutting back on calories but still like that bubbly fluid (taste?) in their mouth. That being said, I know Walmart has this Great Value brand of carbonated flavored water that those people may like.
Anyway, yeah, I dropped diet soda out of my diet for the most part. Water isn't as bad as I previously made it out to be.

[kelly315]

Thanks for posting! I've seen these before in other forms, but this is a concise and understandable presentation of the issue.

[Pink Hurricane]

Great link! I stopped drinking all soda about 6 months ago and have felt so much better. I love tea, water, and all natural fruit juice in moderation.