is diet soda bad for you? (1 Viewer)

[CurlyNight]

It depends on your definition of bad for you I guess. Is it good for you as in if you are low on funds, you should spend it on this? No. Is it bad for you in that in low moderation it will eventually kill you? No, not by itself- but artificial stuff isn't good for you in general. It's just unknown imo if it does have any effect however minute on any medical conditions you may have if you are concerned to that degree.

 

[CurlyNight]

My mom was diagnosed with diabetes in 1983. Since then, she has maintained a healthy, sugar free diet (which totally sucked for me growing up - sugar free cranberry sauce @ thanksgiving is for the birds), exercises for at least an hour a day, and watches her glucose. Oh yeah - she has probably 2-3 diet cokes each day. That's 2-3, every day, for the past 23 years!!!

She has not seen any adverse side effects, and I dare say, diet coke for her has been MUCH healthier than regular coke.

wow, this is a throwback.

update: my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about 7 years ago. She's been up and down, lately more down than up. She's spent more time in the hospital than out of it since july, and hasn't been out of her hospital bed in probably 3 weeks. Right now I'm not sure she will make it to Thanksgiving.

not that her diet coke habit had anything to do with her turn for the worse, it just struck me, reading about how healthy she was 8 years ago.

Wow, so sorry to hear. I hope she does make it to at least Thanksgiving. :(