Is diet Coke really THAT bad for you?

[Meyerland]

If you can lose weight, while moderately drinking diet sodas, then you are fine. One a day is perfectly reasonable.

[mm4]

Diet soda and stroke:

"At the end of 10 years, the daily diet soda drinkers were more likely to have had a stroke or heart attack, or to have died from vascular disease. The increased risk remained even after study investigators accounted for smoking, exercise, weight, sodium intake, high cholesterol, and other factors that could have contributed to the difference. The results were published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine."
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-there-a-link-between-diet-soda-and-heart-disease-201202214296

[Lacerta]

Originally Posted by Garfunkle524

This. The studies that show ill health effects have a completely unreasonable approach. Basically they just take rats and pump them full of ridiculous amounts of aspartame for weeks and weeks until they find a health issue. You'd need to be drinking 12-packs every day to consume a fraction - by weight - that these studies find issue with. At that point the caramel color will get you before the aspartame does.


Not saying diet sodas are particularly healthy. I'm not a fan of them. But "articles" about "studies" are terrible places to obtain knowledge and are an abominative disservice to science.

Right. I'm not with those who are saying it causes cancer. I'm just saying that it is a common food "allergy" if you will, or "trigger food" if you like that better. It absolutely does cause migraines in a statistically significant portion of the population. About half of the women in my mom's side of the family have this reaction. Only 1 of the men does.


Probably no more harmful than milk, or peanuts, or bananas, or any of the other food products that people can have adverse reactions to. If you aren't a reactor, then no problem. If you are, you should avoid ingesting that product.