Am I missing something about 'diet' coke?

Hang on Now

Why do people think they're being healthy drinking a diet coke? I heard Ivan Yates recently talking about how he's given up drink, and how he'd often have a diet coke instead. I didn't think anything of it at first, as it sounds like a normal thing to say.

Eventually though, I realised the irony of it. First of all, sodas aren't very good for you, and secondly, aren't people aware that diet coke is worse than regular coke. It'd be one thing if it were just working class who drank diet cokes, but I often see intelligent people going for them too. I just don't understand how people can so easily be the victims of marketing?

EDIT: Due to an onslaught of comments about what I said towards the working class; my justification lies as follows:

It's mostly the working class that thought water (in this country) was free! Case closed.

And just to tackle back chat from another user:

Deleted User wrote: »

Ironically, it's the people who swallow this waffle that are left looking rather dim.

Ironically it was the working class that swallowed the waffle of Michael Martin about water being free. The subsequent years of deliberation within the Dail can only have cost the country € billions. All thanks to the ignorance of the working class.

Deleted User wrote: »

This attitude stems from our political leaders who try to brainwash the public with propaganda that people who are against their policies which are designed to ultimately make the rich even wealthier, are some sort of thick, uneducated, anti-social scroungers.

No, that's not how I arrived at my conclusion. I take one look at working class folk, smoking and drinking, and it's quite obvious. Secondly, I'm actually implying that there more ignorant, as opposed to un-intelligent.

Thank you

nullzero

I'd rather have a normal soft drink with all the diabetes inducing levels of sugar than a horrible diet drink with those awful artificial sweeteners.

I'd have a sparkling water instead ideally.

judeboy101

Sugar bad, no sugar less bad. Simples.

Richard Hillman

Too much sugar in regular coke. A lot of the time I feel terrible after a full coke, so I prefer Coke Zero

Hang on Now

judeboy101 wrote: »

Sugar bad, no sugar less bad. Simples.

Well I guess that's all there is to it. I never liked Ivan Yates anyway. He's too PC, and seems to be kind of a feminist.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I was thinking this might be worth discussing but the "working class" being portrayed as the antithesis of "intelligent people" told me what I was dealing with.

Sgt Hartman

"It'd be one thing if it were just working class who drank diet cokes, but I often see intelligent people going for them"

Are you implying that there are no intelligent working class people?

Hang on Now

Emilee Lemon Bath wrote: »

I was thinking this might be worth discussing but the "working class" being portrayed as the antithesis of "intelligent people" told me what I was dealing with.

a new word for me there!

freshpopcorn

I don't think anybody really believes that diet coke is good for them/healthy. They might see it as slightly better than than the alternatives.

frozenfrozen

Emilee Lemon Bath wrote: »

I was thinking this might be worth discussing but the "working class" being portrayed as the antithesis of "intelligent people" told me what I was dealing with.

go on take the bait did you come down in the last shower

I don't really know what we're talking about, but I knew it was the feminists fault all along.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hang on Now wrote: »

a new word for me there!

Oh, I'm convinced the English language is resplendent with words that would be new to you.

Are Am Eye

You can never have enough coke to drink. If 'diet' or zero is all that's available then it does fine.

Hang on Now

Candie wrote: »

I don't really know what we're talking about, but I knew it was the feminists fault all along.

Well this effects both genders.

Hang on Now

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They might see it as slightly better than than the alternatives.

But the thing is, that it's 'slightly' worse!

I want them to put more sugar in normal coke..

razorblunt

Coke Zero is where its at, never mind that frothy stuff.

Hang on Now

sugarman wrote: »

Its a funny one, in that most of time and most of the people that find issue with soft drinks have no bother putting away several pints on any weekend.

And probably vis versa!!

jam_mac_jam

Its much healther then an alcholic drink.

No its not water but much better then a normal coke. Artifical sweetner is largly unproven as a poison that the urban myths promote.

Where do you get the idea that working class people are not intelligent. Stupid post

Water John

Trump has tested it and having 12 cans of diet coke a day is fine.

nullzero

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Its much healther then an alcholic drink.

No its not water but much better then a normal coke. Artifical sweetner is largly unproven as a poison that the urban myths promote.

Where do you get the idea that working class people are not intelligent. Stupid post

Artificial sweeteners taste awful.
If you really want a healthy drink, have water.

Podge_irl

Hang on Now wrote: »

But the thing is, that it's 'slightly' worse!

There is some conjecture that they may be "no better" than full sugared variations. They are definitely not worse and being just as bad is itself debatable.

BeerFarts

Is diet coke the new sitting down?

OldMrBrennan83

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AvonEnniskerry

I sure as hell don't drink diet Coke to be healthy. I never drink fizzy drinks and on rare occasion will have a diet Coke with my meal if we're out. I just prefer the taste. I'm not keen on full Coke. But I'm under no illusion to it being the healthy option.

donegaLroad

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

Purple Mountain

I don't want you to be no slave..
I don't want you to work all day..

Snake Plisken

I stopped drinking Diet Coke when they reduced the bottle size to 1.75 Litres and switched to Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max as they sell it in two litre bottles.

kneemos

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Its much healther then an alcholic drink.

No its not water but much better then a normal coke. Artifical sweetner is largly unproven as a poison that the urban myths promote.

Where do you get the idea that working class people are not intelligent. Stupid post

If working class people were intelligent they wouldn't be working class.

QED.

Orchids

AvonEnniskerry wrote: »

I sure as hell don't drink diet Coke to be healthy. I never drink fizzy drinks and on rare occasion will have a diet Coke with my meal if we're out. I just prefer the taste. I'm not keen on full Coke. But I'm under no illusion to it being the healthy option.

Exactly this😀

ShooterSF

sugarman wrote: »

Its a funny one, in that most of time and most of the people that find issue with soft drinks have no bother putting away several pints on any weekend.

Moderation with everything is key.

Hmm no Bias in that username :P

Ah I'm one of those recently stopped drinking minerals, unless on a night out with beers and spirits and all those goodies. Not that I think beer is better than coke but rather I was finding myself drinking minerals everyday where as now its on a treat night. But I'm a barman so not the weekend

Oasis1974

Saddest thing are those kind of half spastic obese people knocking back the diet version thinking there the healthiest clowns in town.

jam_mac_jam

Hang on Now wrote: »

But the thing is, that it's 'slightly' worse!

Why is it worse if it has no sugar?

syntheticjunk

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Why is it worse if it has no sugar?

Because aspartame is bigger poison than sugar.

diomed

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

Aspartane is ok.
Aspartame is different.
"Specifically, the hoax websites allege that aspartame is responsible for multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus, and methanol toxicity, causing "blindness, spasms, shooting pains, seizures, headaches, depression, anxiety, memory loss, birth defects" and death." Wiki

AttentionBebe

syntheticjunk wrote: »

Because aspartame is bigger poison than sugar.

*Citation needed

lawred2

Hang on Now wrote: »

Why do people think they're being healthy drinking a diet coke? I heard Ivan Yates recently talking about how he's given up drink, and how he'd often have a diet coke instead. I didn't think anything of it at first, as it sounds like a normal thing to say.

Eventually though, I realised the irony of it. First of all, sodas aren't very good for you, and secondly, aren't people aware that diet coke is worse than regular coke. It'd be one thing if it were just working class who drank diet cokes, but I often see intelligent people going for them. I just don't understand how people can so easily be the victims of marketing?

wut?

The evidence implies that artificial sweeteners in Diet Coke are linked with low IQ, obesity, involuntary hand movements in the presence of attractive women, an inability to see reason, an urge to worsen inequities, compulsive catchphrase repetition, issues with hair and skin coloring, and constant tv watching.

Jobs OXO

It's the drink of lower class fat wans waddling about in their pyjamas

diomed

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/What-Causes-MS/Disproved-theories
The link is they checked it and found there is no link.

lawred2

Jobs OXO wrote: »

It's the drink of lower class fat wans waddling about in their pyjamas

are they known for heading out to work?

K.Flyer

Eat healthy..
Doner Kebad, Chips and A Diet Coke, shure you'll be grand :rolleyes: :pac:

the dark phantom

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

Donald Rumsfeld was involved in its creation. Enough said..

Hang on Now

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Its much healther then an alcholic drink.

No its not water but much better then a normal coke. Artifical sweetner is largly unproven as a poison that the urban myths promote.

Where do you get the idea that working class people are not intelligent. Stupid post

More working class smoke. Fact.

my3cents

I'm sure I read in AH recently someone saying that they have never seen a thin person drinking diet coke.

I think they were right.

Hang on Now

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Why is it worse if it has no sugar?

Some things are too good to be true kid!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

donegaLroad wrote: »

The artificial sweetener, Aspertane, is in all those diet drinks and it's linked to diseases like MS.

A bit of an internet myth there.And it was that Aspartame caused MS-like symptoms.
Magnuson BA; Burdock GA; Doull J; et al. (2007) in "Aspartame: a safety evaluation based on current use levels, regulations, and toxicological and epidemiological studies" state...

Numerous allegations have been made via the Internet and in consumer magazines purporting neurotoxic effects of aspartame leading to neurological or psychiatric symptoms including seizures, headaches, and mood changes....Review of the biochemistry of aspartame has found no evidence that the doses consumed would plausibly lead to neurotoxic effects.

.

Several comprehensive reviews have failed to find any evidence for aspartame as a cause of any neurological symptoms.

Hang on Now

sugarman wrote: »

ARE YOU MAD??? WITH ALL THAT FLUORIDE??? :pac:

He/she didn't say tap water!

Hang on Now

Emilee Lemon Bath wrote: »

A bit of an internet myth there.And it was that Aspartame caused MS-like symptoms.
Magnuson BA; Burdock GA; Doull J; et al. (2007) in "Aspartame: a safety evaluation based on current use levels, regulations, and toxicological and epidemiological studies" state...
.

Several comprehensive reviews have failed to find any evidence for aspartame as a cause of any neurological symptoms.

Ah well, I'll continue to err on the safe side!

dr.fuzzenstein

AvonEnniskerry wrote: »

I sure as hell don't drink diet Coke to be healthy. I never drink fizzy drinks and on rare occasion will have a diet Coke with my meal if we're out. I just prefer the taste. I'm not keen on full Coke. But I'm under no illusion to it being the healthy option.

You're just weird...


on topic:
It has been suggested that drinking something artificially sweet your body releases insulin. Since you didn't ingest any sugar, you have a sugar crash and get hungry and need to eat.
You will notice that mostly fat people drink diet sodas.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hang on Now wrote: »

Ah well, I'll continue to err on the save side!

I'm sure you will continue to err.