[usconservative]

I got diabetes from drinking 2 liters of coke classic every day for about 2 years. No one else in my family has it or had it, and no one else was addicted to soft drinks like I was.

Do yourself a favor: Stop drinking ANYTHING with HFCS or Aspartame, Sweet 'n Low, EQUAL, etc.. in it. The Artificial sweetners are WORSE than sugar itself.

I stopped drinking Coke Zero back in April after a near heart-attack landed me in the hospital. I drink NOTHING with HFCS or artificial sweeteners in it now. Water, Coffee w/1 Sugar and NATURAL juice only.

That ONE change netted over 35 pounds of weight loss as of my last weigh in, last week.

Do yourself a favor: quit Coke Zero NOW. You'll lose weight, get your insulin and type-2 diabetes under control faster than you know it. Trust me on this, I know.

[chris37]

Well, I do not drink coke zero, only diet coke sometimes when I cannot get my tea, which is a problem because it is diet peach snapple which is sweetened with aspartame.

The only packaged sweetner I use is stevia in my coffee.

I know what I should do is make my own tea and sweeten it with stevia.

I think that is what I am going to do, but the good news is I do have my type 2 on maximum security lock down. I think quitting diet snapple will assist that even further.