ifartsosomuch t1_iyeume7 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:35 PM

Reply to comment by LUNATIC_LEMMING in My country has put warnings in CocaCola reading "Excess in Sugar" and "Contains caffeine, avoid in children" by aM3o03

There's no evidence that aspartame does 95% of the shit that's attributed to it. "YoU mIgHt As WeLl JuSt DrInK rEgUlaR," say busybodies peering their noses down at my Diet Coke while on their sixth beer of the evening. "It's sweet, so your stomach thinks it's sugar, and your body treats it like sugar!" someone told me once, but as far as I'm aware, there's no mechanism for glycolysis to happen on aspartame molecules.

That being said, I quit Diet Coke to see if it would help me lose weight. There are no long-term human studies showing this (because nobody has done them), but there are mouse studies showing that aspartame encourages the proliferation of insulin-resistant gut bacteria. It hasn't helped at all, but I'm going to stay off the DC another three months. If there's still no change, I'll go back to it, because it tastes delicious.

LUNATIC_LEMMING t1_iyewwum wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:51 PM

not looking down on your diet coke at all, but from the riot act i got, theres plenty other stuff besides the sugar that makes these drinks poison.

I'm taking the 1-2 a week as a treat approach.

diet tastes aweful to me anyway, apparantly the artificial sweateners taste very different to different people. it's why as well as diet coke / pepsi theres zero and max

now if only i could kick the chocolate ^^