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> Tricking your body into thinking you ate sweet things does not sound like a winning strategy in the long run. What are you comparing it to though? If you're
by delecti 5y ago
> Tricking your body into thinking you ate sweet things does not sound like a winning strategy in the long run.
What are you comparing it to though? If you're deciding between diet soda and water, then it's hard to make a health case for diet soda. But if you're deciding between diet or regular soda, then diet soda starts to look a lot better.
- hinkley 5y agoDrink the water. Look around. This whole thread is about how the tradeoff of artificial sweetener is worse than you think it is. In toto it's pretty bad in fact. There is no 'health case' for diet soda. The person who put those four words next to each other in your brain was in marketing, probably when you were still a kid. There's a hedonic treadmill with sweets. If you stop consuming processed food with refined sugar for a while, the common complaint is that they are too sweet to drink. We have to acclimate ourselves to drinking soda regularly. Can you see how screwed up that is? Artificial sweetener is trying to keep our unhealthy relationship with sweets but cut out the consequences (or rather, trade them for other consequences).
- delecti 5y agoI'm not drinking less water because I'm drinking artificially sweetened soda; I'm drinking less genuinely sweetened soda. I have no illusion that my diet soda is better than water, but that seems to be what most comparisons are between. And maybe some day I'll remove diet soda, but for now it's not competing with water; it's competing with soda, and I suspect it's at least an upgrade in that regard.