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[BleeckerSt_Girl]

If you do that you might want to temporarily take some caffeine pills or other caffeine to ease the abrupt drop off a bit- going from 8 cans to 2 is likely to give you some caffeine withdrawal headaches- and those can be splitting (i know).
Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

[crazycanuck]

8 cans of diet coke a day

I hate to be rude, but isn't that why the US has one of the most obese populations in the world?

Frightening..

[SadieKate]

Um, diet coke doesn't contain sugar or calories. That's why it's diet.

Though I think I've read somewhere that the chemicals in diet drinks exacerbate the feeling of hunger. I think . . . .where did I read that?

[crazycanuck]

doesn't diet coke contain aspertaine/aspertane (sp)...I thought diet coke was bad for you..

[SadieKate]

CC, yes, diet coke does have nasty things in it but sugar isn't one of them.

Nutrasweet/Aspartame is possibly linked to MS-like symptoms. Another one of those wild controversial reports where you don't know who to believe.

[KnottedYet]

Nutrasweet/Aspartame is possibly linked to MS-like symptoms. Another one of those wild controversial reports where you don't know who to believe.

Yup, that's what the docs thought was going on with my mom, until she went to a diabetes specialist who asked the all important question: how much diet soda do you drink?

[KnottedYet]

The studies that tie diet soda with obesity are pretty wild. Some folks say the nutrasweet/aspartame is an appetite stimulant. That's a bummer.

There's also the behavioural aspect, like one study that had folks who ordered giant diet sodas also ordering giant burgers and fries (thinking it was ok, cuz after all they are cutting out calories from the soda, so some extra fries can't hurt, right?)

Artificial sweetners make me and SKnot very sick, and Nutrasweet in particular causes my mom to get ill. She's a diabetic and has a lot of trouble with dry mouth, so now she sips plain tea all day.

[Trek420]

There's also the behavioural aspect, like one study that had folks who ordered giant diet sodas also ordering giant burgers and fries (thinking it was ok, cuz after all they are cutting out calories from the soda, so some extra fries can't hurt, right?)

I can attest to that. Back in the day I was a cook (that was waaaaay back) the number of orders of "I'll have the quiche, cheesecake, side order of onion rings, giant fudge and brownie sundae ... oh, and a diet coke"

I just look at the ingredients and "oh, that can't be good for me"