I was having a chat with Rambo on one of her streams, and somehow we got to discussing soda. I said I was drinking diet cola, but the conversation progressed to the point that diet soda lies to you. It isn't healthier than regular soda. I went away and did some research, and sure enough, almost every drink brand that markets its diet soda has way more sugar than a regular drink. The specific diet soda I was drinking (and will stop eventually), has 90 grams of sugar. The regular version has 27 grams. I even looked at some bottles of Lemonade my dad has one is full fat and one is diet. Diet soda contains supposedly artificial sweetener and full fat contains normal sugar. If you do enough digging you can find so many articles on how artificial sweetener is actually worse for you than regular sugar. One artificial sweetener is aspartame this has been linked to causing cancer and can be found in many diet sodas. It was discovered in 1965 and is around 180-200 times sweeter than sugar from sugar cain. This specific sweetener was only approved to be used in dry food in 1981. Thats a whole 16 years that it took for the sweetener to be approved for use in dry food by the FDA. Aspartame is marketed to have zero calories but yet it can cause you to gain weight, you can obtain a mood disorder by consuming this sweetener. While there are many articles online telling you it has not been conclusively linked to serious side effects and health issues, these articles still tell you to be careful ingesting this specific substance. Its like they want to lie to you and just give you a glimmer of the truth. Be careful what you put into your body because anything could cause you a problem. If you have any health issues that have arisen since drinking these diet sodas please consider switching. When doing your weekly shop watch out for purchasing anything with the words; diet, low calorie, no calories, low or no sugar. Yes shopping just got a lot harder but maybe something health wise will improve.
There is not much research on the topic of benefits of diet soda. It does say it reduces fatty liver and detrimental effects of normal coke. However it doesn't list these supposed 'detrimental' effects of regular cola if they wanted us to know the truth you would not have to do so much research on a specific subject to come up with a small pile of answers. You are left with way more questions than you are answers. Does this feel like a cover up to you?
Thank you for reading my most technical post I have done so far who know I may be more outraged in the future be safe out there peeps <3
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