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Permalink Reply by Brian (bsc) on February 5, 2013 at 3:00pm

Diet sodas are certainly better than regular sodas. But I think that there is a hierarchy of beverage nirvana and at the bottom is regular soda, followed by diet soda, then flavored water and at the top is just plain water (slightly chlorinated). If you seek beverage nirvana, you try to move up the pyramid.

And as to the effect of diet sodas, it is best to experiment on yourself and see. Some people will respond to caffeine and others may react to just the taste of sweetness.

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Permalink Reply by FHS on February 5, 2013 at 3:08pm

Diet sodas never affected my BGs so I drank a lot of it at one point. Other than changes to your BG, I'm not sure what criteria you use to determine what too much is. For me, too much diet soda meant me spending more than 5 minutes a day picking up empty cans.

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Permalink Reply by David (dns) on February 5, 2013 at 4:33pm

Well, champagne is beverage nirvana for me. Just saying. ☺

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Permalink Reply by christy on February 5, 2013 at 4:53pm

Only thing diet soda does to me is make me go pee, LOL! No effects on the blood sugar though.

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Permalink Reply by Cinderfella on February 5, 2013 at 8:22pm

I drank gallons of diet soda over the years. It never affected my blood sugar but I'm paying the price now with my bones. Soda of any kind is deadly for bone health. The increased acidity from the soda consumption causes your body to leach calcium from your bones in order to neutralize it. Drinking soda=bone loss.

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Permalink Reply by Shahenda on February 6, 2013 at 7:45am

Yes .. unfortunately I know that .. they also say that it can also mess u up when u get pregnant ! But it seems to be the only way to prevent myself from over eating .. instead i just over drink soda !

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Permalink Reply by Jag1 on February 6, 2013 at 8:45am

Diet cola has phosphoric acid and caffeine, but most other diet sodas like diet root beer, diet ginger ale, diet orange, etc. do not. So it is only diet colas (Coke, Pepsi, etc.) that are supposed to have the negative effect on calcium. If you don't care about the caffeine, then drinking these other diet sodas would work well.

Here's a link to a study that suggests that: HERE

On the other hand there have been studies that dispute these findings and suggest the only reason routine drinking of soda hurts bone health is because the soda drinkers are drinking less milk. (HERE)

Maybe not the best idea, but I personally drink diet soda every afternoon for the caffeine and fake sugar hit. I've considered replacing with coffee, but haven't been able to yet. Both coffee and tea are supposed to have health benefits (antioxidants), so it would seem that it would be smart to do this eventually.

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Permalink Reply by christy on February 6, 2013 at 10:12am

Me too with all the soda's I've consumed and the bone issue.

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Permalink Reply by jeremiah17 on February 10, 2013 at 5:06pm

It shouldn't affect your BG levels but it is full of sodium, which is not good for cholesterol and triglycerides

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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on February 10, 2013 at 5:29pm

When I was younger, I worked in restaurants. One place, we had styrofoam cups and I kept track of how many diet cokes I had during a lunch shift, probably like 10:30-1:30 or something like that, and it was around 27. Admittedly, there was ice involved but still quite bit. When I started my "real job" in an office, I figured 4/ day would be about right and brought them and drank them but I've moved away from it and just have coffee in the AM and some vitamin water stuff @ lunch and maybe water or more coffee in the afternoon.

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Permalink Reply by christy on February 10, 2013 at 5:43pm

It's my only vice, lol I gave up smoking years ago, I don't drink all that much, so lol yeah diet soda is it. But I have cut back considerably from how many I used to drink.

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Permalink Reply by Shahenda on February 11, 2013 at 2:27am

I'm trying to quit it too right now but it's just that i've just begun recently controlling my blood sugar *still recovering from diabulemia* so i always feel like eating just about anything and then i remind myself that there's always diet soda that would fill my stomach and still i'd have no peaks in my bs !

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