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Don't you just feel like you're getting nothing in return from diet soda? It just tastes wrong and you're ingesting chemicals you probably don't need. A relat

Don't you just feel like you're getting nothing in return from diet soda? It just tastes wrong and you're ingesting chemicals you probably don't need. A relative of mine who drank diet coke daily just had her bladder out due to cancer and she never really drank alcohol and took awesome care of herself. She suspected her diet-coke habit and in light of this news, she might be right. I get it, this is HN, I need numbers, not anecdotes, but it sure is curious.

tptacek 3y ago
Diet Coke doesn't cause bladder cancer.
dieselgate 3y ago
Sometimes I drink diet soda, it is more of an acquired taste after a while but is fine.
function_seven 3y ago
> Don't you just feel like you're getting nothing in return from diet soda? That’s how I describe water. Unless I’m really thirsty, water is just … nothing. Diet Coke has crisp, light flavor. And the aspartame only tasted weird way way back when I switched from sugar soda. On just taste alone I prefer Diet Coke to the regular kind and to Coke Zero. I probably should reduce or eliminate it, but it’s just so good.
- tptacek 3y ago
  I think about this too. I can drink a cup or two of water over a couple hours... unless I squeeze a little bit of lemon into it, in which case I can drink myself hyponatremic. It's the same, to an extent, with things like Diet 7-Up. If being super well hydrated is a good thing, then I guess what I get out of flavored drinks is ultrahydration? I don't know why this is. Seltzer doesn't do it. I assumed it had something to do with sodium, but, then, the lemon works too.
  - CyberDildonics 3y ago
    then I guess what I get out of flavored drinks is ultrahydration This is not something that exists unless you talking about a marketing term for hair conditioner.
    - tptacek 3y ago
      Sorry, I meant to say megahydration.
      - rfrey 3y ago
        I appreciate your commitment to precision in language.
      - CyberDildonics 3y ago
        I think you're confusing medical terms with supplement names.
  - ChatGTP 3y ago
    Tap water is boring, I live near a natural spring with quite sweet water, which is really pleasant to drink. When I'm stuck with tap water, I just "chug" a few large glasses (600ml) every few hours. Makes it easier.
the_jeremy 3y ago
> My relative drank diet coke and got cancer > I get it ... I need numbers, not anecdotes, but it sure is curious. No, it is not curious. The IARC finding found limited evidence linking aspartame to liver cancer alone[0], no other types. You have a 1/28 (male) or 1/91 (female) chance of developing bladder cancer in your lifetime[1]. Please do not post comments that sound like Tucker Carlson rhetoric. 0: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspartame.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspa... 1: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/bladder-cancer/about/key-statistics.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/bladder-cancer/about/key...
- ChatGTP 3y ago
  Please do not post comments that sound like Tucker Carlson rhetoric. Please do not be so fragile. It is curious to me, so what? There are many, many things we've been told are ok for us and it turned out they weren't the most striking example for me recently has been PFOAs. In our area, firefighters used to spray down kids with "harmless fire retardant foam" and choppers would dump it into the forest by the ton. Now rivers near us are completely forbidden to go near because of the contamination. I dislike TC as much as anyone else, but he is successful because some of these "conspiracies" can turn out to be true or partially true. Sorry but it is just a fact.
rjh29 3y ago
Is this a troll? Am I on Facebook somehow?
- ChatGTP 3y ago
  Who cares where you are, this is the internet, some people have different ideas and opinions. So what? Deal with it.
serf 3y ago
> Don't you just feel like you're getting nothing in return from diet soda? diet coke is highly caffeinated, this comes with pretty obvious physiological effects.

tptacek 3y ago

Diet Coke doesn't cause bladder cancer.

dieselgate 3y ago

Sometimes I drink diet soda, it is more of an acquired taste after a while but is fine.

function_seven 3y ago

> Don't you just feel like you're getting nothing in return from diet soda? That’s how I describe water. Unless I’m really thirsty, water is just … nothing. Diet Coke has crisp, light flavor. And the aspartame only tasted weird way way back when I switched from sugar soda. On just taste alone I prefer Diet Coke to the regular kind and to Coke Zero. I probably should reduce or eliminate it, but it’s just so good.

tptacek 3y ago
I think about this too. I can drink a cup or two of water over a couple hours... unless I squeeze a little bit of lemon into it, in which case I can drink myself hyponatremic. It's the same, to an extent, with things like Diet 7-Up. If being super well hydrated is a good thing, then I guess what I get out of flavored drinks is ultrahydration? I don't know why this is. Seltzer doesn't do it. I assumed it had something to do with sodium, but, then, the lemon works too.
- CyberDildonics 3y ago
  then I guess what I get out of flavored drinks is ultrahydration This is not something that exists unless you talking about a marketing term for hair conditioner.
  - tptacek 3y ago
    Sorry, I meant to say megahydration.
    - rfrey 3y ago
      I appreciate your commitment to precision in language.
    - CyberDildonics 3y ago
      I think you're confusing medical terms with supplement names.
- ChatGTP 3y ago
  Tap water is boring, I live near a natural spring with quite sweet water, which is really pleasant to drink. When I'm stuck with tap water, I just "chug" a few large glasses (600ml) every few hours. Makes it easier.

the_jeremy 3y ago

> My relative drank diet coke and got cancer > I get it ... I need numbers, not anecdotes, but it sure is curious. No, it is not curious. The IARC finding found limited evidence linking aspartame to liver cancer alone[0], no other types. You have a 1/28 (male) or 1/91 (female) chance of developing bladder cancer in your lifetime[1]. Please do not post comments that sound like Tucker Carlson rhetoric. 0: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspartame.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspa... 1: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/bladder-cancer/about/key-statistics.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/bladder-cancer/about/key...

ChatGTP 3y ago
Please do not post comments that sound like Tucker Carlson rhetoric. Please do not be so fragile. It is curious to me, so what? There are many, many things we've been told are ok for us and it turned out they weren't the most striking example for me recently has been PFOAs. In our area, firefighters used to spray down kids with "harmless fire retardant foam" and choppers would dump it into the forest by the ton. Now rivers near us are completely forbidden to go near because of the contamination. I dislike TC as much as anyone else, but he is successful because some of these "conspiracies" can turn out to be true or partially true. Sorry but it is just a fact.

rjh29 3y ago

Is this a troll? Am I on Facebook somehow?

ChatGTP 3y ago
Who cares where you are, this is the internet, some people have different ideas and opinions. So what? Deal with it.

serf 3y ago

> Don't you just feel like you're getting nothing in return from diet soda? diet coke is highly caffeinated, this comes with pretty obvious physiological effects.