diet coke/pepsi vs coke/pepsi

They serve coke because it has sugar and caffeine in it.  It serves the same general purpose as GU.

Try drinking it flat... it might sit in your tummy better.

Sorry I don't have any studies handy, but here is what I believe.

Artificial sugars might be bad for you.

Drinking diet sodas just feeds your craving for sugar/sweets.

I think many obese people are sugar adicts.

Most overweight people drink tons of diet drinks.  Yes it is anecdotal, but it really turns me off.  Whenever I see diet drinks, I think of a fat person with a diet coke in their hand.  Hence, I have this imagery that really turns me off to diet drinks.  Show me an obese person who does not drink diet soda, and I will show you a person who is loosing weight.

While they might not be that bad for you, I dont think you will find anyone that says diet sodas are good for you.

Where's my popcorn?

Are you saying that they are fat because they drink diet soda?

ditchdoc - 2008-08-06 4:09 PM ,

ditto.. I've been waiting all afternoon for this one to explode

2 bigmacs and a large fry is maybe 1200 calories.   Add the jumbo regular Coke and it is closer to 1500.  So Why is it better to drink the sugar? In theory you just saved enough calories to have second burger for "free".   Seems like a big way to save calories to me. 

Maybe you should ask yourself why you are in line at fast food places before you critique the diet habits of others.  

 I agree with the above comment.  Diet Soda has not proven to cause major health problems, but that doesn't make it good for you. 

Well I did not get any wild rants against me?!?!

I don't think that diet sodas make you fat, I just think that putting too much sweet tasting stuff into your body is not good.  I think there are all kinds of addictions.  People can be addicted to sugar too.  Artificially sweetened drinks/food feed the addiction just as well as naturally sweetened food.  Replacing five regular cokes a day with five diet cokes a day does not solve the problem.

Most overweight people really, really like sweets.  The easiest way for them to get their fix is with soda.

Yea, most of my opinion I pulled out of my a$$, but it is also based on some studies regarding cravings for sugar/artificial sweeteners.

What fun is a forum if you cant throw out some controversial opinions now and then.

I would say you are clearly addicted to sweets.  You are also clearly not overweight.  But my hypothesis is that overweight people are addicted to sweets, not that diet drinks make you overweight.

 No. I think many obese people are addicted to sweets, and drinking diet soda does not address their sweet addiction.

Sorta explains why you haven't gotten a ranting response from me. 

Well, most ideas for scientific studies come from anecdotal observations.  Then you design a study to test whether or not your theory is true.  So, essentially, someone pulls an idea out of their a$$, then they do a study to test the validity.  No?

Uhhhhh.....sorta.  More or less.

Not really. 

You should try going to an unbiased site that's actually based on real evidence.  Mercola is a quack among quacks.