For me- It has 0 calories so I don't see it as a bad thing when bodybuilding. But something tells me though it will get me in the long run for some reason. I drink about 3-4 cans a day.
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Thread: Your thoughts on Diet Soda
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01-19-2009, 04:25 PM #1
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01-19-2009, 04:38 PM #4
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01-19-2009, 05:40 PM #6
The aspartame in diet and sugarless gum can screw with your glucose metabolism causing you to not be able to properly synthesize CHO for energy.
Say you order a burger and fries, you're having your diet soda/pop to save on calories waiting for your meal to come.. those fries and bun won't be metabolized for energy as efficiently causing them to be stored as fat (MSG has a same end result).
Granted, fast food was a bad example but if your metabolism is functioning correctly and training regimen is on par....fast food doesn't phase you, but the diet sodas eventually will.
Most individuals that I've come across that have been drinking it for a long time (2-3 a day) for years (some 15-20 years straight) thinking they are helping themselves to save on calories.. have been sadly fooled by the marketeers and our own gov(FDA). Many of these people I've dealt with have become grossly obese from consuming frequent diet sodas and sugarless gum, when they weren't predestined to be.
I suggest you research aspartame and the side effects.
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01-19-2009, 05:45 PM #7
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01-19-2009, 05:54 PM #12
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01-19-2009, 05:57 PM #13
I used to drink a ton of it. After getting to 1+ gallons of water a day though I have found my craving for it reduced. I can keep it to 2 cans now, maybe 3. I tend to drink them when I am bored too....
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01-19-2009, 06:02 PM #14
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01-19-2009, 06:03 PM #15
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01-19-2009, 06:10 PM #16
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01-19-2009, 06:14 PM #17
I don't know about the metabolism alteration, but there's plenty of information out there on Aspartame and it's negative effects for me to want to avoid it. I wouldn't trust the FDA as far as I could kick their building.
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01-19-2009, 06:22 PM #18
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01-19-2009, 06:26 PM #19
10% of aspartame is methanol, scroll down and see how the body metabolizes methanol.
http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/dangers.htm
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01-19-2009, 06:31 PM #20
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01-19-2009, 06:35 PM #21
Metabolism is a little more complicated than 'it produces this so it's bad'
Linking the metabolism of a compound to a byproduct in 1 stage of metabolism and calling the compounds bad is extraordinarily farfetched conclusion and some of the worst science possible.
Hey, fermentation glycolosis produces ethanol, a poison, therefore we should not participate in anaerobic workouts because ethanol is toxic to cells.
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01-19-2009, 06:49 PM #22
I had a bad habit for a while, drinking about 6 cans a day.
I have since limited my intake (cold turkey...) and I only consume about 2 cans per week.
Like another person mentioned, it depends on what your comfortable with. For me personally, I never really knew any other feeling. I grew up drinking my mother's Tab sodas and then developed a craving for Diet Coke ALL THE TIME.
After I stopped drinking the brown Splenda water with no nutritional value, I noticed that I didn't feel as heavy or groggy. Drinking water instead of drinking that soda will make you feel lighter, help clean out your waste (both ways), and it is by far the best thing your body can consume.
I would say ditch the soda...there's just no need.
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01-19-2009, 06:50 PM #23
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01-19-2009, 07:12 PM #25
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01-19-2009, 07:18 PM #27
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01-19-2009, 07:44 PM #28
that's pubmed.gov .oh I guess that settles it!
I wholeheartedly agree with the the seltzer water, bubbly yet clean and doesn't cause toxicity all over your bodie.
Cannot find the research on glucose metabolism/sensitivity on the web, but I came across this plethora of anti-aspartames if you believe 'em or not -the choice is yours, either Donald Rumsfield or a bunch of Doctors...you decide who's the quack? (and don't say me)
http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html
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01-19-2009, 07:51 PM #29
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01-19-2009, 07:56 PM #30
has anybody criticaly looked into these pub med articles ?
just from my glancing over the abstracts
#2, #3 and #6 were associated with Nutrasweet company so they should be discarded
Of the rest all but two of them are meta-analysis or reviews of other research. Of these two one of them focuses on blood sugar control in subjects with diabetes and merely drops a line saying nothing abnormal was reported in the non-diabetic group.
I don't mean to be overly critical as I don't personally care whether people on the internet consume aspartame or not, but I just think that a lot people see a list containing 8-9 pubmed links and go "oh my gosh it must be true" without even taking the time to even look over the research.✰MISC RUNNING CREW✰
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