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Diet sodas


Worth a try!
 
I used to work with someone who drank 20 cans of diet coke a day. That was 40 years ago. I'd be very interested to know how he is now.

20!

Diet coke has been my preferred fizzy (along with mineral water, a habit born of many visits to Italy) for decades. The other half has the very unscientific opinion that is what "gave me diabetes" as, according to his logic, "your body will think you are eating sugars and respond to that even though there are no sugars".

I think that's superficially attractive nonsense, but then that's a good definition of why I married them.

As others have said, in moderation I don't think it's an issue (except for people with specific allergies/reactions).
 
I tend to drink them rarely and usually as a mixer when obviously better than full sugar. There have been questions over sweeteners for years,probably best to aim for most natural. For me I did hear one argument against diet drinks. It was on a BBC programme about how/ why diets work or dont work. Apparently we crave something sweet, drink the diet drink and your brain recognises the sweetness but the body doesnt so craves more. I've tended to avoid it since!
 

I think "they " must be right I had a diet Pepsi a while ago and then found myself eating 4 or 5 olives and half a pickled cucumber slice

Mind you the cucumber did have dill in it.
 
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