Soda reduces muscle growth?

[SaaidVMG]

My friend told me this and I didn't believe him, but I really didn't have anything to say back since I'm not really educated around this area. So is that true? Does soda really reduce muscle growth, or affect your gains in any way at all?

[n0useforaname]

My friend told me this and I didn't believe him, but I really didn't have anything to say back since I'm not really educated around this area. So is that true? Does soda really reduce muscle growth, or affect your gains in any way at all?

Not really sure how soda could reduce muscle growth....

[Bastiat]

does it inherently "reduce muscle growth"? I doubt it. The problem with soda is that it has a lot of just plain empty calories. For instance, a single 12oz can of coke says it has 139 calories and 39grams of sugar (which would be closer to 156 calories so I dont know what the difference is there).a 12oz mtn dew has 170 calories from 46g sugar. and its not like these are nice complex carbs either, its just high fructose corn syrup. soda reduces the amount of calories of real food you are able to consume before gaining weight. So, either you dont get as much macro/micro nutrients as you otherwise would or your calorie intake goes up. But I dont think there are any ingredients that specifically inhibit muscle growth.

[PBateman2]

No.

[DHTime]

My friend told me this

A friend once told me that my manhood would shrink if I didn't regularly stretch it....

Well, I've not done any kind of phallic stretching and it's still here!

[VmissileX]

op i guess thats how i was a skinny to skinny fat biotch for 80% of my life.

makes sense.

[ErikTheElectric]

Your friend is a moron, or just lacks a basic understanding of nutrition.

[skel1977]

My mom told me i would go blind if i touch myself at night. Not sure if its true or not and sorry i cant spell check because i cant see my keyboard since im blind

[andrewlef]

Oh crap. I just drank a diet coke. I'm gonna lose all my gains.

Come on, OP. Use some common sense.