Health & Family Addicted to Diet Drinks

I drink Cordial, I can't take much in the way of fizz anymore so I go through about 1 litre of weak cordial (I don't like it sweet) and about 2 litres of just plain water most days (plus 2 coffees in the morning and sometimes a Tea in the arvo). My Cordial is the only thing with sugar in, I drink my tea and coffee without.

I don't like diet drinks, they are sickly sweet and aspartame is super super bad for you.

If I catch up with friends I will have 2 or 3 beers but that's about it.

 

its interesting how some people unaware of what has caffeeine and what doesnt

obviously coke does, espresso has far more , comparing 1 shot to 1 can of coke

english breakfast tea has it
Green tea has moderate amounts apparently,
chinese tea has it too

the only tea that I am aware and that I can drink is Rooibos,

cant stand the earl greay, camomile, peppermint

especially peppermint, makes me feel like im drinking toothpaste

 

decided to do the caffeeine free diet,

excpet when im on holidays of which I will drink diet drinks and alcohol like crazy

Last time I did a caffeeine free diet, I made it 4-5 years,

this time I think probably 12 months

 

Red bull has caffeine.

Some that could catch you out:
- some soft drinks have caffeine
- a chocolate bar could have up to 31 grams of caffeine
- some ice creams have caffeine
- some pain killers have caffeine
- some vitamin waters have caffeine
- some energy bars have caffeine

 

Yes. And I used to think red bulls had like heaps of caffeine but in reality its only like a bit more than coffee

 

I wonder if there is any studies of people who drank diet drinks for like 30 years getting cancer

ive been drinking it for 20 years,

now to think about it, thats a scary though, 20 years of drinking that stuff

 

I don't put too much stock in any of the "xyz gives you cancer" research, Even the smoking ones.

I know people who are in their 40's and 50's alcoholics smoking a pack a day drinking diet drinks and eating processed garbage yet amazingly they always nail the health checks with their GP.

Through research I did in the last couple of years, it drew a conclusion that it's actually more to do with genetic predisposition. This can be based on many things but a large one was geographical background (Koreans have a high volume of esophageal cancer, Indians more Bowel etc etc). These were my own conclusions from lots of reading and personal experience, they should not be taken as anything other than "Dan's opinion"

Now what Aspartame (artificial sweetener) does to your brain is a whole different story, lights it up like a big ol christmas tree. I have no idea what the long term effects of it are but under imaging it looks the same as someone on crack.

None of this is suggesting that you can do these things and be fine, my suggestion is simply that there is not enough evidence to draw the conclusion that they are the only contributing factors to certain diseases as the WHO would have us believe.

 

I have started drinking soda water. Safer alternative

 

And super refreshing

 

Put some ice and a slice of lemon and it has that soft drive feel and flavour.

 

I've also noticed that some foods also have aspartame in it.

Like fat free yogurt.

It seems to be everywhere

It's quite scary

 

Good pick up. There are lots of "diet" foods with aspartame, from jello to jam. It's scary, I agree. My mate get sick if he has aspartame, that's why I started looking into it. Nasty stuff.

 

Check out the video about how it failed regulatory requirements for human consumption 3 times so they kept paying money to add more and more people to the regulatory board until it was passed. It shouldn't be consumed by humans.

I take this stuff with a grain of salt though as there can be some very convincing propaganda out there .

 

Well ive now been off all alcohol, caffeine, diet soft drinks for two weeks now.

I feel so much better...... Not
I feel like I have more energy...... Not
I feel like I'm more healthier........ Not


I feel the damn same

 

Like when I quit coffee. I don't feel amazing. Not going back on it though.

 

thats the spirit!!

 

Hmm.. I've just taken up drinking red wine again. I feel better with every glass!
I haven't stopped drinking coffee either, though I've cut back to about 3-4/day and don't drink coffee after 6pm.

 

if any of those reports of the health issues realted to aspartame are true,

I damn hope to hell they are banned immediately!

 

It takes a while for everything to kick in....

Are you doing exercise as well?

 

I have a food intolerance to salycitates, which has only developed in last few years, so have to stick to eating what my dietician calls 'granny meals' that means there is a helluva lot I cant eat. Like chocolate, cheeses, wine anything that has preservatives. Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve this as I feel quite deprived when I go to the supermarket.