In short answer, no.
However, you cannot replace water with diet soda. Yes, it is calories free. However, there are 30 to 40 milligrams caffeine (about half cup of coffee). These extra caffeine can make you addictive to diet soda. Also, you will feel restless, irritable and anxious. Also, it will make your hands tremble and disturb you sleep. In this serious case (12 cans), diet soda can damage to your skeleton because of it’s acid
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won’t do your teeth any good either
I am trying to avoid soda all together.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. The reason soda is considered detrimental to bone health is because people often replace calcium-containing beverages (milk, fortified soy milk & orange juice, etc.) with soda. The only people who should really limit their soda intake for real health issues are those with kidney disease or congestive heart failure due to the phosphorus and sodium content, and obviously people who are diabetic or overweight shouldn’t drink regular soda because of the sugar/calories.
how about this?
http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=636
If you were to remove all the liquid from a can of soda, the amount of sugar would shock you into thinking twice about drinking the stuff.. Good fresh water is the way to go!
I have to disagree with megan, soda should be limited by everyone and not just the sick! Think about it this way, your body is not looking for anything inside that can except the water. So, go and buy yourself some water and nourish that body. You simply cannot beat additive-free, pure, water.
Soda is bad for you regardless. 12 cans a day is too much. I would never drink that much soda. And also, diet soda is a lot more disgusting that regular soda which is already terrible.
I’ve been drinking over 12 cans of soda a day for the past 2 years and i’m still in good shape, very healthy (well, except for minor skin rashes every now and then) and I have no intention of stopping this habbit. can anyone give me a good reason i should probably stop drinking soda? All your theories sound really stupid. I need prove!
I used to do a 12-pack of diet soda a day. It was a substitute for when I wanted to eat, instead of addressing the issue of hunger. So after the soda, I would still be hungry. By then I had trained myself to consume a 12-pack worth of flavored food-like stuff without thinking; combine that with hunger, and it made for bad binge behavior. Every time I picked up a diet soda it was a reminder of my shame of being obese, the feeling that I wasn’t allowed to be like everybody else and have a regular soda.
Recently I traded diet for regular soda, and now I consume 2 cans a day, and replace the rest with water. Training my brain to set limits now.
back when i was 18 or 19 years old. i would only drink a bottle of soda or 2 maybe once a week. i just basically drunk water and juices. now when i turned 21 and was in college fulltime, i also worked at a convienent store and was around fountain machines and soda all the time and i started drinking soda like crazy. because alot of times during the day when i was working and got hungry i didnt have time to eat, so i would substitute my hunger instead of food with a soda! i drunk so much soda,like maybe 3 or 4 big cups a day for like 2 years, that the acid irritated my esophigus and i couldnt swallow normal food when i ate, i lost like 40lbs of my weight and had to go to a digestive disease specialist.
i have been soda free for almost 2 years now, gave it up in 2009. i just drink water and fruit/vegtable juice now.
i feel great. too much soda is bad for you! i say give it up. but too much water is also bad for you. keep everything in moderation.
i say when you have a sweet tooth and a craving drink fruit juice instead of soda because fruit juices have lots of vitamins,nutrients and minerals. fruit juices do have the same amount of sugar as soda though and limit yourself to maybe 1 or 2 sodas a week.