Kristen at Lively Women offers up how diet soda is not exactly the best choice for anyone. She is totally grossed out by all the findings that link the lovely little calorie free brown beverage to heart disease and other health issues.

And then Sara at Healthbolt blasted diet soda last week as well. She even went on to describe that diet soda changes your DNA and could cause you to gain more weight then regular soda. Hmm… I don’t get all of it, but it is worth checking out!

With all of the new research that goes along with diet soda, will you cut your consumption of the bubbly, yummy beverage? It is still a tough call for me. Is it the caffeine, the fake sweetener or just the soda itself? Because diet iced tea will have the artificial sweetener and in some cases the caffeine, so who knows! I already drink about 20 glasses of water a day, but I need a change every once in a while. And I am not going to lie, I love the way diet Coke, especially fountain diet, feels in my mouth and how it gives me that mid afternoon pick me up. How ’bout you?

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Diet Soda And Diabetics… Take Two!

There is all kinds of recent research that states diet soda can be linked to diabetes and heart disease. Some even claim that diet soda will put you at a higher risk for weight gain than regular, full caloried, all the sugar having, sweet soda. Hmm, I don’t know which way to go on this one.

It has been proven in the past that caffeine can affect your blood sugar. So, this leads me to my next question. Would it make a difference if we were to drink caffeine free diet coke versus a plain ol’ diet coke? What have you found? Personally, I do drink a diet Coke a day, in lieu of a cup of coffee in the afternoon. I have to have a pick me up in the hours leading up to dinner due the fact that my kids still get up at all times of the night. And by the way, when will that stop?

I am going to compare a few studies that I have found on the subject of debate. My issue with so much of the research done on this matter is that the people being screened and observed have so many other lifestyle choices that can lead to diabetes and heart disease. Who is to say that the diet soda alone caused the increased risk factor for developing diabetes? If you have anything, share it with me. This seems like fairly important information, since so many of us substitute diet soda’s over full sugared drinks.

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Diet Soda Might Not Be Kosher Among Diabetics