Aspartame free Diet Pepsi is undrinkable

[nakedfrog]

Is that two coffee mugs of coffee, or two "cups" of coffee? I'm using a standard coffee mug, and my "five cup" coffee maker produces less than three cups per pot.

 

[Ackmed]

I think most mugs are more than an actual measured "cup".

I rarely drink soda. About the only time I did was as a mixer for liquor. Over the past year or so, I have just been drinking it straight though, no mixer. Every now and again I will with a pizza or some. Water just doesn't seem to go with certain food, and activities.

Diet anything just sucks imo. It is funny seeing someone eat a ton of food, but order a diet cola.

 

[SP33Demon]

There are no calories in typical diet sodas. It is impossible to gain wait without getting the calories from some place else. There are all kind of cockamamie theories that try to implicate artificial sweeteners in weight gain, but they all fail to explain where these calories came from.

"The body keeps more of the calories from the rest of the food you eat!"
Then you ate too much anyway.
"The metabolism slowed down!"
Then you needed to exercise more anyway.

Drinking diet soda does not make you gain or maintain excess weight.

Mr. Science-Denier, it can change your gut's bacteria which alter metabolism. Working out more isn't going to do shit if your body is naturally storing more fat. People would have to do 2-3 hours of HIIT a day to burn the extra kcals, not going to happen in the normal population assuming they are drinking lots of diet soda per day.

The Israeli study suggests that artificial sweeteners enhance the populations of gut bacteria that are more efficient at pulling energy from our food and turning that energy into fat.
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He found that the proportion of Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes bacteria increases as fat people lose weight through either a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet. Stanford University microbiologist David Relman says this finding suggests that the bacteria in the human gut may not only influence our ability to extract calories and store energy from our diet but also have an impact on the balance of hormones, such as leptin, that shape our very eating behavior, leading some of us to eat more than others in any given situation.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ay-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

 

[shortylickens]

watching Back to the Future. Noticed a can of diet pepsi free on Marty's nightstand.

Havent seen that in a long time.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Mr. Science-Denier, it can change your gut's bacteria which alter metabolism. Working out more isn't going to do shit if your body is naturally storing more fat. People would have to do 2-3 hours of HIIT a day to burn the extra kcals, not going to happen in the normal population assuming they are drinking lots of diet soda per day.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ay-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

I mean, I thought it was dumb as fuck when the robots in the Matrix were using Humans are batteries when humans generally require more energy to keep alive than we release. But obviously they figured out that artificial sweeteners make humans into perpetual energy generators.

Someone get NASA on the line, STAT. Just imagine, Voyager probes that last for as long as we can feed a human aspartame. It's GENIUS.

 

[SP33Demon]

I mean, I thought it was dumb as fuck when the robots in the Matrix were using Humans are batteries when humans generally require more energy to keep alive than we release. But obviously they figured out that artificial sweeteners make humans into perpetual energy generators.

Someone get NASA on the line, STAT. Just imagine, Voyager probes that last for as long as we can feed a human aspartame. It's GENIUS.

The study went over your head I see. More kcal aren't created, it's simply stored instead of burned.

 

[CZroe]

The study went over your head I see. More kcal aren't created, it's simply stored instead of burned.

And you don't think your body and microbiome might respond the same way to reduced sugar/carbs? It sounds like it's describing perfectly know and understood mechanisms of human metabolism. There are special diets specifically intended to accomplish the same thing. Of course your microbiome changes when your diet changes and you do something drastic like replace/remove all sugar.

It's silly to idealize one arrangement that is supported by unnaturally high sugar intake over one that isn't. It's unnatural to have so much sugar in a cup of liquid. Even natural juices weren't this sweet a few hundred years ago. No one is suggesting replacing all sugar with artificial sweeteners, just reducing our consumption of excess sugar with a substitution sweetener for key dietary items that we get the excess from (desserts and drinks). Most people still get excess sugar from fruits and juices.

And this isn't so much about aspartame anyway.

 

[OverVolt]

Just got seagrams 25% fewer calories ginger ale that has sucralose in it. Yuck. Never again. Realized after I drink the whole thing 😛.

 

[CZroe]

Just got seagrams 25% fewer calories ginger ale that has sucralose in it. Yuck. Never again. Realized after I drink the whole thing 😛.

You do realize that is a normal sweetener, right? The calories aren't reduced by 25% compared to regular Seagram's, regular Seagram's simply has 25% fewer calories than your average sugary drink with the normal formula. That's why I usually choose Seagram's when I get a non-diet drink.

 

[OverVolt]

You do realize that is a normal sweetener, right? The calories aren't reduced by 25% compared to regular Seagram's, regular Seagram's simply has 25% fewer calories than your average sugary drink with the normal formula. That's why I usually choose Seagram's when I get a non-diet drink.

You do realize sucralose is not the real name for chlorinated sugar right.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3856475/

In general organochlorine compounds are nasty chemicals. When it comes to health anybody with a brain would be wise to minimize their intake of it. I don't think its bad on occasion but I wouldn't make a habit of buying products that contain it. My opinion. Its only safe to consume because its such a potent sweetener the concentrations are very low.

Sucralose and sucrose are easily confused and thats not by accident as it was intentionally named that way for branding purposes.

 

[CZroe]

You do realize sucralose is not the real name for chlorinated sugar right.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3856475/

In general organochlorine compounds are nasty chemicals. When it comes to health anybody with a brain would be wise to minimize their intake of it. I don't think its bad on occasion but I wouldn't make a habit of buying products that contain it. My opinion. Its only safe to consume because its such a potent sweetener the concentrations are very low.

Sucralose and sucrose are easily confused and thats not by accident as it was intentionally named that way for branding purposes.

So it has both? News to me. All I knew was that it wasn't diet and that it had a traditional non-artificial sweetener (which was probably HFCS). I also knew that there are many names for the same sugar (like sucrose=dextrose).

I'm probably going to keep drinking it on occasion because diet Seagram's is terrible.

 

[OverVolt]

So it has both? News to me. All I knew was that it wasn't diet and that it had a traditional non-artificial sweetener (which was probably HFCS). I also knew that there are many names for the same sugar (like sucrose=dextrose).

I'm probably going to keep drinking it on occasion because diet Seagram's is terrible.

Ikr I wish it wasn't in there because I like the taste.