4 Reasons to Avoid All Soda (Even Diet)

This information is so helpful and so true! Keep the scientific info coming so that we can become a healthier society.

Fruit Juice is just as bad, if not worse than soda. Sticking some Vitamin C into a 150-200 calorie sugar loaded glass of OJ will make you a lot fatter than something with ZERO calories in it.

In fact, the writer is a moron... you can't gain any weight from ZERO calories. That is pretty much an fact.

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I understand about the plastic bottle but what about the green tea is that safe

Not all sodas contain phosphoric acid, but I think most dark colored ones (colas) do. Mountain Dew does not.

I drink diet soda purely as a substitute for sugar laden, high calorie regular soda. One or two a day. For my situation, the diet soda is absolutely better for me.

You've convinced me. I'm switching to beer.

I need to give it up. I do enjoy a can a day while cooking dinner or when I am poolside but I notice I am hungry for sweets after my can is gone. Thanks for your encouragement to kick the can!

Michelle Obama doesn't want you to drink Soda, she thinks you should do what your told people you haven't got the brains to think for yourself. You need the dirty goverment to do it for you. They are liers, they lie about everything they don't want you to have. I drink, diet soda and I have lost weight, propaganda folks is all they do is lie to get you to do what they want you to. liers all of them

EMT's use Coke to wash blood off the road imagine what it does to your insides.

All "cold" sodas -- all bubbly drinks, including beer, champagne, etc.and gaseous "spring" water -- are deleterious to health. Here's why: when a cold liquid containing "gas" warms up, the gas pressure expands. Left in an open container, it will escape into the air, and the result is what we usually call "going flat." However, the stomach is more like a closed container. Other than an occasional belch, the only "release" for the increased pressure is to s-t-r-e-c-h the stomach. A stretched stomach means it takes a greater volume of food, or even ordinary liquid, for the feeling of being satiated, i.e. having eaten enough. Whether or not it is junk food or healthful food, it will be too much food, and that will put one on the road to obesity.

The brown coloring in sodas HAVE been proven to cause kidney stones which I have had many. Sadly that is why I have stopped drinking brown. Beer actually is better for me. Here s to your health

The best reason to not drink soda pop is that there isn't one good reason to drink it in the first place.

It has zero nutritional benefit; period!

Second of all it is a complete waste of money, and relatively speaking it is quite expensive; in particular when you buy it one can at a time or when you buy it by the glass in one of those big paint bucket sized cups at the 7/11.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/new-study-diet-soda-doesn-t-cause-diabetes-obesity More CRAP from YAHOO SHINE!

I haven't drank soda in over two years but I do put the sugar-free drop-in flavors in my water... Does anyone know how they compare to diet soda?

Wow, even magazine writers love to use urban legends. BPA is found in hard plastic such as water bottle made for reuse, or baby bottles. Yes, it sounds scary, of course no one mentions this BPA scare is based on what scientists think, not what they have shown to be the case. BPA is not found in single use bottles like soda and water bottles. The truth is everyones body reacts differently to things. For example some people are allergic to peanuts, some are not. Let's get the facts straight before we publish, eah?

i dont really drink it a lot, only when i eat out, which is about once a month.. but i usually have iced tea instead.

i am addicted to it. litre a day.i am trying to quit. haven't had one in a week.

yeah and i could be walking down to the bus stop and get hit by a truck and die.... who cares ? at my age... i could care less what diet soda does to me... eat what i want.. drink what i want..i dont care... and if i do give up diet soda.. can i replace it with a fifth of Jack Daniels ? Next thing you know.. breathing the air will be bad for you.....

Arizona tea in little packets you can add to your water bottle are good tasting and good for you with green tea. Soda's have been known to cause weight gain around the middle for years!