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I don't think people realize the scale of soda consumption that needs to happen to have health issues. By and large the people in these affected studies are not
by asdff 2y ago
I don't think people realize the scale of soda consumption that needs to happen to have health issues. By and large the people in these affected studies are not drinking water at all. They are getting all their thirst needs met by a sugary drink. That is so overboard. You can have a can of coke every now and then and not have your enamel slough off.
- ElCapitanMarkla 2y agoWe had a family friend who is in her late 50s stay for a couple of days over Christmas, all she drunk was Diet Coke. Even going to bed at night she took a bottle of Diet Coke with her. The thought of waking up through the night for a swig of Coke grosses me out a bit. And yes, she is the absolute picture of health...
- neom 2y agoeh, Diet Coke is primarily water, aspartame, phosphoric acid and caffeine. I drink 5/6 of them a day (don't like water much). The paper linked actually says short term effects of diet soda are less problematic, but recent evidence suggests that aspartame may have harms on the microbiome and glucose tolerance generally. That said, the idea of drinking anything either sweet or carbonated before bed, during the night, or in the morning, mind boggling to me, that does sound really gross.
- SoftTalker 2y agoHave you ever tried plain carbonated water? It's more interesting than still water, and for me more thirst quenching. Easy to make at home with a Soda Stream or similar, just don't add any of their syrup.
- neom 2y agoalright fine, you win universe. SoftTalker, I'll drink more water ok?
- KittenInABox 2y agoI mean, diet coke explicitly doesn't have the kind of sugar in this study.
- ozim 2y agoMostly from own experience I know poor people drink sodas and as you get used to the taste you don’t like taste of plain water - even when you have decent tap water. As an adult I started drinking tap water and now I don’t like taste of sodas anymore. I am happy that I got over with it but still have some people I know stuck on sodas and disliking plain water taste.
- Spivak 2y agoI think "don't like the taste of water" accurately describes me. That being said I do have a rule of "never drink anything with calories" specifically to avoid the sugar. But I don't know what you plain water drinkers are on about, the added flavor tricks me into drinking way more than I would naturally. Humans have been constantly flavoring our water for thousands of years, I think the verdict is in that water tastes kinda meh. I would take tea or flavor extracts every time.
- EasyMark 2y agoI like my water flavored. I tend to keep some lime/lemon juice around and that works well for me, maybe something can work for you
- ozim 2y agoWell exactly plain water doesn’t really have a taste so it is meh and requires getting used to. Especially when all you drink are sweet sodas it is really hard to get used to plain water.