Comments on: Do you have a dirty little dietary secret? And is it called Diet Coke?

By: Linda Murphy

Linda Murphy — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:23:36 +0000

It drives me crazy when someone says. Everything in moderation. What is moderation. Once a day. Once a week. A month.? We can not see what is happening inside our bodies. We all have cancer cells. We have no idea when tumors are developing. I can’t control everything that happens around me. What I breath in etc. But I can control what I use on my body and what goes in my mouth. Considering that 1 in 3 people are diagnosed with cancer, and 1 in 3 with diabetes. I don’t think there is a lot of moderation happening. Do you?
Linda Murphy
Registered Holistic Nutritionist

By: Brent Cole

Brent Cole — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:12:00 +0000

I have been a diet soda drinker for 33 years and at the age of 55 I can say I look far better than my contemporaries. The only thing I have noticed is that my energy levels do drop slightly with over consumption of diet soda. One saving grace may be that I add lemon juice to my sodas as it is reputed to alkalize it. I know, an acid that alkalizes? True dat!

By: Alynn

Alynn — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:42:59 +0000

Funny that I stumbled across this. When I initially tried a healthier lifestyle/diet I switched to Diet sodas. I noticed two things within the first week & I didn’t even drink that much. 1) I seemed to become hungrier, esp for sweet, when I drank diet drinks. This didn’t help what I was trying to do. And 2) I began to get migraines frequently. My doc suggested to eliminate aaspartame & whaddya know, the migraines & major cravings significantly reduced. This time around, if I splurge, its on real soda and sweets…

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:23:22 +0000

I never drink more then maybe a can a day of diet coke, is this still a real bad thing ??

By: gretchen

gretchen — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:42:51 +0000

I hate when people post articles without any evidence to back their claims.
Note to readers- if you check the american cancer institute or american academy of nutrition and dietetics you can find evidenced based information on sweetners/soda.
Having said that, moderation to everything is the key.

By: ??

?? — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:31:54 +0000

Yes, must have been the diet coke??

You people are coo-coo to believe this article.

By: Fay Fuerst

Fay Fuerst — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:44:50 +0000

This one is a heart breaker, but I MUST write the for you to read. I had never imagined how connected Diet Coke was to cancer.
I met a woman last year, in the hospital, after she broke her leg. Ordinary discussion between us made me aware that she was going through chemotherapy and when I asked her where the cancer was, she said ‘Everywhere.’ Turned out later it was in her lungs (never smoked) in her panacreas, lymphoma, kidneys and liver. They were aggressively treating her with chemotherapy and radiation because she was 47 years old.
She had broken her leg when she slipped on her way to the fridge after one of these aggressive chemotherapy treatments.
While her bones were healing she could not do the chemotherapy and the tumors increased in size.
The only thing that she can think of that might be related was: Diet Coke.
She drank it from morning (first drink after brushing her teeth) and she did not eat breakfast. Therefore, by noon she had had 3-4 cans of Diet Coke on an empty stomach. She had more at lunch…ate extra because she was hungry…and then all afternoon, and with dinner.
She reported that she had between 8-10 cans of Diet Coke each day.
Weekends, even more as she had them all day and all night while others drank water and coffee.
She died in June 2012; 7 months after I met her. She had been diagnosed about 6 months before I met her…so 13 months between diagnosis and death.

By: I will try, support me!

I will try, support me! — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:52:19 +0000

I drink a TON of diet soda. And i know its bad i just can’t seem to get unhooked. I am not overweight but i could loose a few pounds and look much better. I guess i try to sub in some OJ. Anyway, the Diet Dr.Pepper has to go :/

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:28:59 +0000

I needed to hear this re: diet coke. I am goig to tray and stop. As for the weight gain, I dont like drinking my diet sodas by themselves so i eat chips, crackers, whatever I can find to go with my diet coke! It makes me feel bloated, I feel edgy, crabby and bloated…..I am going to try and drink tea!

By: vmv

vmv — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:34:20 +0000

I have tried to tell people that diet soda is harmful because of the aspartame, but in general, they don’t listen. I have a neighbor who is 90 and drinks diet Dr. Pepper (she has probably been drinking it for years); she has a long list of serious health problems. I have tried telling her that diet soda is harmful, but she won’t listen.

I am grateful that you are telling the truth by having written your article; there are other websites that say there is no harm in drinking a couple of cans of diet soda every day!