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Diet Beverage Drinkers Balance Benefit With Unhealthy Food
UPI ^ | Sept. 11, 2015 | Stephen Feller

Posted on 09/11/2015 3:24:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 09/11/2015 3:24:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I just don’t like sugary sodas, period.


2 posted on 09/11/2015 3:27:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Well yeah. Anybody that ever worked fastfood knows that. Diet Coke orders were almost always in drive thru, almost always supersized, frequently included a desert, and often an extra sandwich. But hey, it was diet.


3 posted on 09/11/2015 3:27:58 PM PDT by discostu (dream big and dance a lot)
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A few years ago, I began drinking diet green tea instead of water or any other beverage. My blood sugar dropped immediately out of the pre-diabetic to normal. Weight has remained steady, but I’m not overweight.


4 posted on 09/11/2015 3:45:01 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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I worked for a woman who would eat two 1/4 pounders and fries for lunch and wash it down with a diet Coke.


5 posted on 09/11/2015 3:46:59 PM PDT by rey
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My friend, at BK drive-thru, circa 1978:
"Gimme two double-beef Whoppers with cheese, onion rings and fries, and a large diet Coke."

Me: "Dude. Why bother?"

Him: "It kills my hangover."

6 posted on 09/11/2015 3:48:43 PM PDT by W. (Get a rope. Now.)
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I’ve never got the hang up with diet drinks.

So someone who eats a 1500 calorie meal doesn’t want to make it 2000. Big deal!

Does anyone ever tell the car dealer to just “round up” when buying a vehicle?


7 posted on 09/11/2015 3:53:10 PM PDT by papertyger (Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui neat. / Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies)
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That’s WHY I drink diet drinks — so I can consume more fat calories. :)


8 posted on 09/11/2015 3:54:19 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: Vendome

I don’t either, prefer the crispness of diet pop.


9 posted on 09/11/2015 3:56:39 PM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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Many times ppl drink diet soda not for weight loss or calories but b/c they like soda but don’t want to consume all the sugar.

I used to be a Dr pepper fiend. When I got an elevated glucose on a blood test I switched to diet. Not the best, but better.


10 posted on 09/11/2015 4:00:38 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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I started drinking diet years ago when I was carrying some extra weight. No weight problem now, but I got accustomed to the taste. Regular tastes way too sweet and it’s sort of sticky.


11 posted on 09/11/2015 4:01:33 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Four Fried Chickens and a Piece of Dry White Toast.

and a Diet Coke.


12 posted on 09/11/2015 4:04:50 PM PDT by bakeneko
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I’m on a diet, so cut my pizza into 4 pieces instead of 8 and give me a diet Coke.


13 posted on 09/11/2015 4:24:28 PM PDT by umgud
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“I worked for a woman who would eat two 1/4 pounders and fries for lunch and wash it down with a diet Coke.”

It would have been so much better had she ingested a ton of sugar with that food.


14 posted on 09/11/2015 4:27:50 PM PDT by Gigantor (The Fundamentally Transformed States of America)
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However, among obese adults, as well as those with the most income and education, diet beverages were most linked with increased caloric intake.

And right here, in this modest little sentence, we find the real reason that diet sodas cause obesity. It has nothing to do with metabolism, and everything to do with psychology!

Somehow, I doubt we'll see any decrease in the number of headlines pronouncing that diet sodas make one fat...

15 posted on 09/11/2015 4:33:32 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Diet drinks are also unhealthy.


16 posted on 09/11/2015 4:43:07 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Vendome
Same here. I started drinking Pepsi Max around the beginning of the year, and we both changed our diets to cut out a lot of processed carbs and replaced them with more veggies and fruit (a big key right there). My A1C has dropped two full points and I've lost 32 pounds since January.


17 posted on 09/11/2015 4:49:58 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sugared sodas taste sickening to me. I enjoy the taste of the sugarless. And I take issue with this study. The basic food groups are pizza, Mexican, lasagna and more pizza.


18 posted on 09/11/2015 4:51:16 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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Same here.

I’m drinking a diet Mt. Dew right now, and it is good.


19 posted on 09/11/2015 4:53:08 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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“I worked for a woman who would eat two 1/4 pounders and fries for lunch and wash it down with a diet Coke.”

Two 1/4 pounders? So. It’s only 1/2 pound :)


20 posted on 09/11/2015 5:01:09 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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