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[quote="tweety_fan"]is coke zero just diet coke with different name?[/quote]
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CrazyCatLord
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:39 pm
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ValentineWiggin wrote:
I can't drink plain water- it makes me gag.
I feel the same way about tap water, but I love mineral water. I even use bottled mineral water to make tea and coffee. Tap water is very bland in comparison and contains residual pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics that aren't filtered out in wastewater treatment plants. (These pharmaceuticals also find their way into sodas and soft drinks btw, which are usually prepared with tap water).
ValentineWiggin
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:06 am
Post subject: Re: H20 is the way to go...
MDD123 wrote:
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Why do Westerners in general seem to LOVE artificial sweeteners? My UK and US friends wouldn't touch a teaspoon of sugar, but can happily dump 3-4 packets of man-made chemicals into their tea...
I love it because
a. I love not having a fat @ss
b. I love not having diabetes.
I don't particularly care where the stuff comes from.
Having taste hyposensitivity, I usually add about
ten
packets to my tea, when I'm out.
At home, I brew tea or coffee by the gallon and use one of the bigger bags.
Else, I'd never drink at all.
I simply can't justify consuming 3-4 pounds of sugar a day just to be able to stay hydrated.
ValentineWiggin
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:04 am
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1000Knives wrote:
ValentineWiggin wrote:
I can't drink plain water- it makes me gag.
Add a spoon of lemon or lime juice. No calories, and adds flavor.
I couldn't taste it though- I'd have to add about twenty full lemons to my gallon, and that'd be expensive.
MDD123
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:01 am
Post subject: Re: H20 is the way to go...
emorah_slaytron wrote:
Get more "sky juice" (slang in my country for water), better than artificially-sweetened-and-coloured junk anyday...
...
Why do Westerners in general seem to LOVE artificial sweeteners? My UK and US friends wouldn't touch a teaspoon of sugar, but can happily dump 3-4 packets of man-made chemicals into their tea...
Do less with more, that's our philosophy
1000Knives
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:29 pm
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ValentineWiggin wrote:
I can't drink plain water- it makes me gag.
Add a spoon of lemon or lime juice. No calories, and adds flavor.
ValentineWiggin
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:17 pm
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I can't drink plain water- it makes me gag.
CrazyCatLord
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:44 pm
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JesseCat wrote:
Diet sodas are known to leech calcium from your bones.
Other data suggests that the calcium carbonate from diet sodas can lead to cancer and other endocrine disorders.
Best thing to do is drink water.
^^ This. I've also read that soft drinks with artificial sweeteners can cause weight gain. Tasting something sweet triggers an insuline response, and if you don't ingest any real sugar, your blood sugar will drop too low. The result is ravenous appetite (as well as headaches, dizziness, and trouble concentrating).
CrazyCatLord
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:40 pm
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How about drinking zero coke instead of coke zero?
JesseCat
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:04 pm
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Diet sodas are known to leech calcium from your bones.
Other data suggests that the calcium carbonate from diet sodas can lead to cancer and other endocrine disorders.
Best thing to do is drink water.
Joker
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:14 pm
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I love Coke Zero or any kind of diet drink I dont drink it because I think it helps me loose weight but I drink it for the aftertaste which taste good to me
ValentineWiggin
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:50 pm
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LeKiwi wrote:
It does have aspartame, which is probably the single worst additive known to man. The story of how it was approved reads like a horror novel, and with its FDA-acknowledged 92 known side-effects including cancer, stroke, heart failure, death, gradual organ failure etc etc it's pretty horrendous stuff.
In short, if you're going to drink coke, drink the real stuff with sugar in it. Sugar is bad, yes, but it's far better for you than aspartame or any other artificial sweeteners.
I think Coke are actually bringing out a coke sweetened with Stevia though soon, which is another natural sweetener (made from the pressed leaves of the South American Stevia plant) that has no side effects, no calories, is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, and in some studies is shown to have a positive effect on blood sugar levels as well. So keep an eye out for that.
Whoa, really?
That'll be interesting.
I'm not a fan of carbonated stuff, but it will be interesting to see something like that- a Coke product made with more natural sweeteners.
I down a bag of the artificial stuff a day.
ImMe
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:40 pm
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I just want to say that Aspartame gave me intestinal pain; like a shocking kind of pain that might last a minute or so.
I figured this out because my father only has diet soda since he's become obsessed with losing his belly fat and so that's what I drank. But EVERYTIME I drank it a couple hours later I would get this awful pain. And this happened on all four occasions of drinking this stuff. So you can believe that this stuff isn't bad for you and all that, but I'm not drinking anything with chemical sugar substitute again. That was kind of scary when I realized it was the Diet Coke.
So I bought regular Coke. The pain never came back. Now they buy some regular Coke for me.
Of course, maybe there is something else in Diet Coke that doesn't agree with my digestive system, but I'd rather just avoid Diet drinks than attempt to determine that.
TheEvolutionOfLife
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:40 pm
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I drink it and I've been vomiting for the last 3 months.
LabPet
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:11 pm
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Lode wrote:
It's really easy.
Drink water.
Precisely. And, confession: Lab Pet drinks Milliquant directly from the laboratory tap .....aka: Laboratory Holy Water.
UV radiated plus RO treated - truly H20. Unadultered water. I've developed a taste for Milliquant too.
Lode
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:58 pm
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It's really easy.
Drink water.
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