Diet Beverage Drinkers Balance Benefit With Unhealthy Food

UPI ^ | Sept. 11, 2015 | Stephen Feller

[Vendome]

Get my blood test every year and all is well...

[nickcarraway]

Aspartame tastes metallic to me and gives me a headache. Even one sip. It’s related to MSG.

[Irenic]

I don’t drink diet sodas because of the calorie savings, I drink them because I like them better than sweet sodas.

To me a sweet soda is like having a candy bar and I don’t always want that syrupy sweet but I really enjoy the fizz.

[CatherineofAragon]

Yeah, it does bother some people.

I drink mostly water, but I do love a diet drink (that’s what we call them here...not soda or pop).

[Ditter]

MrD was drinking too many Diet Cokes per day , 10 or 12 . He too was drinking them for the fizz. I got him switched over to La Croi sparkling water. Much better for him, it's just water and he doesn't like the taste of Diet Coke anymore.

[Secret Agent Man]

If you watch carbs and total calories, and do mild exrcise like walking evey day, you can do well on a burger diet.

But people are not smart about it and they get fat and blame their food, rwther than their own total lifestyle choices.

[Cementjungle]

I just don’t like sugary sodas, period.

Me neither... never got hooked on the stuff.

[clearcarbon]

The coffee and tea in the chart must also contain something other than coffee and tea.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

I guess I’m in the minority. I HATE diet sodas, especially Diet Coke. The aftertaste is disgusting. Sugary sodas taste much better. You just have to drink them in moderation.

[nascarnation]

Agree.
Mexican Coca-Cola and Pepsi Throwback are heavenly.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

I love Pepsi Throwback & Mountain Dew Throwback. I’ll choose Sugar over HFCS any day. I’ve never found any Mexican Coke around here but would like to try it.

[Mr. Blond]

I wash my diet Coke down with rum.

[martin_fierro]

Lol

[smalltownslick]

If you don’t like sweet but like the fizz, drink club soda or seltzer water. It has quite a fizzy kick to it when it’s very cold, and is really refreshing on a hot day. You can make your own sodas with it, or just add lemon or lime. Very good any way.