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I was just wondering how bad diet soda is compared to regular soda? With regular soda you are consuming empty calories, but there are several studies surrounding diet soda and how bad it is for you, What are your thought? plz share here.

artificial sweeteners like sucralose/ sucrose /aspartamine that are in diet sodas and even most protein shakes have a lot bad things associated with them for example they can kill the friendly bacteria in your gut by up 2 50% thats why iv just threw out my protein powder n got a unsweetened 1 because im having problems with my immune system which is down to having to little good bacteria. hope this helps

cudd2287 wrote:artificial sweeteners like sucralose/ sucrose /aspartamine that are in diet sodas and even most protein shakes have a lot bad things associated with them for example they can kill the friendly bacteria in your gut by up 2 50% thats why iv just threw out my protein powder n got a unsweetened 1 because im having problems with my immune system which is down to having to little good bacteria. hope this helps

Care to provide any kind of credible link that states that?

I bet if I looked up any kind of food or drink etc you will find people saying its bad for you. Heck the air we breathe - polluted, water we drink - polluted, sunshine = bad, all meat sources for the most part have steroids etc. Majority of all the fruits and vegetables’ have pesticides etc. It’s enough to make one stop eating everything. Organic is very expensive and there is no guarantee its 100% organic as it’s not regulated at all.

Most of the information is purely opinion with very little credible research to back it up. Hell, look how controversial carbohydrates, protein and fat are and how varied the opinions are on how bad they are for us. If we can't even come to a consensense on macronutrients how can we ever come to any kind of meaningful decision on all this other stuff?

I eat far healthier than I did before I started working out and getting in shape and my body and health have greatly improved. For me life is too short to go through it worried about a lot of this stuff especially when it lacks any kind of credible research behind it.

At the end of the day people need to check stuff out for themselves and then make decisions that work for them and their life.

hey vanguard try to post links here havnt tried it b4 so if it dosent work sorry.Im not saying for evry1 to stay away specialy most people on healthy whole food diets it probably wouldnt effect them but due to antibiotics my immune system is shot so i have to stear clear of anything that could harm my good bacteria and try to get their levels up thats all

http://www.phend.co.za/health/splenda.htm
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... -lies.aspx

Fair enough. Have you tried eating yogurt with probiotics? I suffered from IBS and found eating a couple Activia yogurt every day helped to restored the healthy bacteria in my digestive track. For the most part IBS is a thing of the past for me now.

I checked out your link and find it halarious how they linked to one rat study to prove their point on how bad Splenda is but then criticized the FDA for using over a 100 animal studies to show its safe.

yeh vanguard flat out on probiotics and natural yougurt had ibs myself think it was due to al the wine intake i was havin tho finaly seeing improvements as im flat out on the glad diet and it seems to be helping more than anything.