Diet Soda

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Bumbles

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Ok I am 19 years old and currently drink a lot of diet soda. Especially Coke Zero. I probably drink about 2 20oz bottles per day. I am like a typical teenager, I eat out with friends and such, but I would like to think that I am rather healthy compared to most people. My diet isn't too terribly bad, a little better than most teenagers. Say I got to Wendy's, Ill order a salad instead of fries most of the time.
I lift wieghts 3 days per week and go running 5 days per week. I typically run 3.5-4 miles per day.

I was wondering if my diet soda drinking habit is going to bite me in the ass someday and I get cancer or some kind of health disease from it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
A little while ago, there were research studies leading to news articles titled stuff like "Can Diet Soda Make You Fat?". Something about how sweetness without calories may confuse your body and make you hungrier or something like that.
 
you should be fine...everything in moderation, that's the key. They are coming out with new studies every month to raise alarms or tout the usefulness of some new supplement. Studies have many variables that can't be accounted for. For instance, all this hype about red wine. Is it the wine? Is it that people in that socioeconomic class that drink red wine exercise more? Eat better? Have better health care? Have good social networks? Is it really the wine, or are there other factors? Take every study with a grain of salt. Moderation is the key.

Keep up the good work!
 
An "ideal" diet would not include diet (or regular) soda, but most of us weigh the pros and cons and do not eat ideal diets. I would not stress out about a couple of diet sodas (stress and worry wear down your immune system!) especially when all your friends are probably drinking it.
 
Keep researching. Diet sodas are dangerous. The medical community is seeing more and more insulin resistance and diabetes in patients who consume diet soda versus regular soda.

It's also showing up in the hair removal industry. Insulin resistance and diabetes are symptoms of metabolic syndrome x, along with hirsutism...unwanted hair. Men who consume one or more diet sodas (or other drink sweetened with artificial sweeteners) per day are presenting with excessively lower arms, shoulders and backs.
 
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