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I believe it. Since I switched back to regular soda a couple months ago after years of only diet, I've actually lost around 15 pounds. I think the two may well affect a person's appetite for food differently.
1 posted on 01/18/2014 4:20:42 AM PST by ETL
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Diet Soda is like drinking rust (except Diet Sprite). I also never seen anyone become skinny drinking Diet Soda


2 posted on 01/18/2014 4:28:45 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Amnesty And Not Ending ObamaCare Will Kill GOP In 2014)
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If Coke was smart, they should create a Coke 800, an eight hundred calorie soda. I bet people buying it would be thin. :)


3 posted on 01/18/2014 4:34:41 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014theyearofdeadRINOs)
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Stop drinking soda and you will lose weight.


4 posted on 01/18/2014 4:37:41 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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I thinks some of it might be more mental rather than physical...Example: “The old joke about the fat person who walks into McDonalds and orders 3 big macs, a large fry. and a chocolate sundae. Then asks for a diet coke with that because “I'm trying to lose weight”. That is to say, a lot of obese people think diet sodas are a magic bullet and they will lose weight with that alone because it has the word diet in it, so they no longer even try to cut back on what they eat.
7 posted on 01/18/2014 4:47:03 AM PST by apillar
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This has been known for a long time. I am 6ft 2in and weigh 178 lb. I eat what I want but avoid artificial sweetners and high fructose corn syrup. I eat real butter not some oily crap. I’m 60 years old and on zero medication, except beer and Kentucky Bourbon. I am physically active but I don’t workout. People I have convinced to follow my lead have immediately lost weight and feel better in general.


8 posted on 01/18/2014 4:48:12 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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I get all my sugar from a bottle of VO.


9 posted on 01/18/2014 4:56:49 AM PST by Rodamala
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Some years back I switched to a modified paleo diet, but I struggled to shed pounds. Then I read something that prompted me to switch from Diet Coke/Diet Dr. Pepper to soft drinks sweetened with Splenda (Diet Rite or Diet RC). Within days I began shedding pounds. Since then I have noticed this same pattern several times. (I inevitably end up drinking aspartame drinks again because they are ubiquitous). I can’t prove it scientifically, but I suspect there is something about aspartame that hinders weight loss, at least for me.


11 posted on 01/18/2014 5:02:45 AM PST by .45 Long Colt
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I should have said the underlying assumption here is that more calories equal weight gain, but that’s totally wrong, at least for me.


14 posted on 01/18/2014 5:05:55 AM PST by .45 Long Colt
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Look at the label...you need a HAZMAT certification to truck Phosphoric Acid.


15 posted on 01/18/2014 5:07:37 AM PST by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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But all the people in diet soda commercials are young and skinny. You mean commercials lie?


16 posted on 01/18/2014 5:13:25 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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Being a type II diabetic, I consumed lots of diet soda...until I read a similar study out the UK about a year ago...

I stopped drinking diet soda completely...

A few months back wife and I went to go out and happened to stop at sandwich shop that did not have brewed tea for a beverage...

I opted for the diet pepsi, figured it would kill me to drink one diet soda...

I literally could not drink it for the nasty chemical taste it left in my mouth..

I couldn't believe I drank that crap for years and years...

BTW, feel much better, more mental clarity and have lost weight...

21 posted on 01/18/2014 5:28:36 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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Aspartame is a neurotoxin, and so is formaldehyde for that matter. I stopped the diet soft drinks about 2years ago. Sparking water was good enough replacement for me.


27 posted on 01/18/2014 6:38:31 AM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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Then there are those folks that drink a Diet Coke...at the same time they eat a Snickers.


29 posted on 01/18/2014 6:57:42 AM PST by moovova
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“I’ll have a Big Mac, Super-size Fries, a Cherry Pie, and a diet Coke, please.”


30 posted on 01/18/2014 7:08:32 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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We used an acid to clean diesel soot off the sides of aluminum trailers. Someone broke two bottles of coke and it accidently spilled on an aluminum two wheeled dolly. That thing was as clean as the day it was new. We used coke on the trailers. Shook the cans and sprayed it on the sides. Got a little expensive, but worked great.


32 posted on 01/18/2014 7:19:16 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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I think some of the artificial sweeteners actually stimulate appetite by increasing insulin output without increasing blood sugar. Try having a bowl of cereal in the morning (or carbs in general) and then a diet coke before lunch. Wow - not good. I do not get the same effect from sucralose (diet rite, Jones Zilch etc). No soda is best but regular in moderation is better than many diet ones.


33 posted on 01/18/2014 7:33:14 AM PST by IFly4Him
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Oh, good grief. I drink water and I also drink diet soda; I don’t have a weight problem. Same for my husband. His family all drinks them, and they’re all thin.


34 posted on 01/18/2014 7:38:55 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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I switched to water.


35 posted on 01/18/2014 7:40:18 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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This is a ridiculous study. The researchers report that obese people who drank diet soda ate more. Ok, so what? Then they went way off base with their cause and effect. How can they make the correlation when they couldn’t find the same effect in people of normal weight? This is a huge flaw, in addition to offering absolutely no proof that some undefined sweet sensors in the brain force you to consume more calories to make up for the lack of sugar from regular soda. How does this happen? They never bother to tell us. I don’t know about you, but these are two huge red flags that should have ensured that this “study” never saw the light of day. But there it is. The grant money industry causes incredible things to happen.


41 posted on 01/18/2014 10:00:27 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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