I didn’t get the impression that was the case, but I guess it could be.
I know, but the main problem seemed to be caffeine. Plus some other things that are in both varieties.
Anyway, I wish I knew how true all these claims about diet soda were. Is the tooth decay one pretty much accepted as true? And you always hear that it raises your glucose level because it tricks your body, or something like that, but if that was true wouldn’t it be really easy to prove?
Too much conflicting info. Guess I better just stick with water.
Why are you making yourself Coca-Cola’s bitch? Sure, 4 cans of Coke Zero may not hurt you. It may even be good for you. But the fact that you even have to ask this question is an indication you know you’re doing something with questionable value.
I say it’s better to cut down to zero and have a zero chance of later regrets, rather than crossing your fingers and hoping all the aspartame and acesulfame potassium you’re ingesting isn’t hurting you. You don’t have to wait for FDA to ban something to decide you’re not going to be a future poster child.
The money focus might be worth considering.
As in what else could you do with about 1500 cans worth of money a year. Other than that, the main things I’d be watching would be sleep quality, digestion and general anxiety levels.
If at 40 this is your main health concern, you’re batting we’ll above average in my view.
Otara
Because we live in a vale of tears, and there are so many pleasures that we really do need to forego that it would be tragic to give up a perfectly innocent one just in case it might be bad for you.
Yep, I’m in.
What is the mechanism for this?
Never mind, I found it–it’s acidity. And you gotta be drinking a lot of the stuff.
By the by, I wonder if I drink things differently (mechanically) than others. My teeth are painfully sensitive to cold, but I like my drinks ice cold. So when I drink, I make kind of a tube with my tongue. It’s not that no liquid ever touches my teeth, but what does come into contact with my teeth is just kind of traces of what might have splashed out of the tongue tunnel as I swallowed. (BTW: TMI.) Is this how everybody drinks, or is it just me?
ETA: It does engulf my back teeth for a moment before my tongue can kind of scoop it back away from them. Other than that (I just tested) it seems the liquid really doesn’t touch most of my teeth except for the aforementioned random splashes…
If the history of consumer goods has taught us anything, it’s that products whose sole purpose is to produce pleasure always come with a significant trade-off.
I can’t imagine being so addicted to something and all the while thinking it’s perfectly innocent. The addiction alone would alarm me.
Oxygen’l fuck with you like that.
But that is what is so frustrating about the whole thing. I call it the ‘reefer madness syndrome’. It is when you just want some straight answers, but people who think they know what is best have to over dramatize everything.
I get that they are hoping we will all be like, “well, I will just drink water, or suck the juice from apples, being sure to eat the apples too” or whatever, but let’s look at this; A woman goes her whole life addicted to fat and sugar and a fucked up sedentary lifestyle. One day, after much self work and meditation and sheer will, she decides to make some changes. She will remove fatty snacks and sugary sodas from her diet. She will replace the sugary sodas with diet.
That is a great move. It’s not enough to get her slim and healthy…there will need to be more moves than that. But it’s a start. Until the scientific community decides that the diet soda causes cancer, it is a great move. Now, good luck with anyone actually telling her that. She will be hard pressed to find a doctor who will just say, “yeah, good move. Better to drink water, but hey, nice start.”
For some reason, they think they have to be slicker than that…“well, you know, the sodas may spark a craving for sweets, and then, you will end up gaining weight, so let’s just ixnay on the iet soda day, 'k?”
It’s ok to give that info, but they should be more honest about the bare facts.
It’s a serious pet peeve of mine that has bothered me my whole life. It is like when I got my first ever HIV test in the 80s (89 to be exact). My best friend and I had gotten into a fight with a man and the man ended up cutting me with a razor. He was a rather flamboyant gay man, and there were unfounded rumors that he had AIDS. I was a terrified kid in the clinic, getting tested when the lady taking my blood asked me questions about my sexual history (I didn’t have one) and why I was getting tested. I told her that the man who cut me was an open homosexual and I was worried that he may have infected me, since he ended up cut too. She said, “and your best friend was cut too?” yes. “and is she also a virgin?” no. “Well, to be honest, the greater danger is from your friend. You should really not be so ignorant as to judge homosexuals.”
Um, excuse me lady, you don’t know me. I have zero judgment for gay people, and many of my family, friends, heroes are gay. But more importantly, she lied to me. She had to know at the time that the gay man was a higher risk to me. (I understand now that my risk was minimal as hell, either way). My point is, in her effort to make sure I wasn’t going around being homophobic, this person who knew better and was in a position of authority didn’t feel comfortable just keeping it real with me. And I have a dozen stories like this, but I realize I’m rambling to myself at this point.
Oh, and in case you haven’t guessed…(dramatic pause) I AM THAT OBESE WOMAN at the beginning of my story! (dramatic music).
Haha
And yes, I agree with you. You can do better without having to feel obligated to do the best thing imaginable. But some people feel compelled to never let your improvement be enough. So then you just start thinking, why even bother at all then? Is there even any point in my halfass improvement?
If you’re trying to lose weight and you fuck up a day, do you just give up on the rest of the day and eat whatever you want? Because that’s what I do. Even though I know it’s obviously not true, it feels like once you get past a certain point then it’s just all the same.
I’m in Nth Qld in Australia, it’s very hot here in summer, also in winter it only gets around 8-10 c at the coldest, so it’s very easy to drink 5 litres of water a day for me, or 4 cans of Coke Zero plus 3 litres of water or more, I know it’s not too good to drink so much Coke Zero, but like I said , I don’t smoke , drink beer or spirits, do drugs , keep very fit doing weights every night, look good for a 40 yr old, so at least I can have 1 bad vice to have, I work on my farm so always outside , it’s very easy to have a slash ( pee) (Aussie slang) anytime I want, my biggest fear is getting cancer from Coke Zero, but I’m so addicted to it , can’t get off it.
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NVM. Disregard my cite comment. I wooshed myself
Does oxygen fuck up your reading comprehension? Because last time I checked, oxygen wasn’t designed to make life pleasurable and sold in pretty cans for seventy-five cents.
And no one is addicted to oxygen.
Caneknife, I think you should assume a small but non-negligible risk from your Coke Zero habit. As long as you mitigate for it in a variety of ways (eat your leafy greens, get routine-checks ups, etc.), then you’re doing the best you can–given that you’re clearly hooked. But I would try to get un-hooked. The difference it will make to your wallet is good enough reason.
I’m very addicted to oxygen. So chemically dependent on it that I think I’ll die within a few minutes of not having it in my bloodstream. Oohhhh yeah.
Sad thing is, purity of what you get on the street has been declining.