Diet pop and sodium question

**bookstar** · 05-26-2007, 09:36 AM

Hello,

I am wondering why diet pop is bad for a person on a calorie restricted diet in order to lose fat if there are no calories? I hear it isn't good for us. Why? Is it the sodium?

That leads to my next question. I am wondering if too much sodium makes us retain water more, even if we drink a ton of water? It seems my whole body is jiggly and loose at times (not very firm), and I am wondering if that has something to do with drinking a lot of diet pop with sodium? Otherwise what could be the issue?

Thank you for your help!!!!

**DanK** · 05-26-2007, 11:18 AM

Sugar replacers are not very healthy, I personally believe that you are better off with real sugar any day than a sugar replacer.

I suspect that sugar replacers have a similar insulin response despite having no calories, so even if they lack calories on their own, they would still trigger food craving (this is pure speculation here, no science to back this up, I'd love to know if it's been proven or disproven though). Any time I eat a sugar replacement my stomach tells me so (it's kind of a hungry/grumbly kind of feeling, it's distinct though) so generally I avoid them, I will say xylitol doesn't seem to do that to me but as far as I know that one is only used in gum so it's not like I'd be consuming very much of it.

**fufu** · 05-26-2007, 11:34 AM

I think it is mostly the aspartame.

Diet soda only has something like 35 mgs of sodium per can, that isn't that much.

Compare it to a single hot dog (~350 mg) to a can of tuna (~500 mg).

**Valias** · 05-26-2007, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by DanK

Sugar replacers are not very healthy, I personally believe that you are better off with real sugar any day than a sugar replacer.

I suspect that sugar replacers have a similar insulin response despite having no calories, so even if they lack calories on their own, they would still trigger food craving (this is pure speculation here, no science to back this up, I'd love to know if it's been proven or disproven though). Any time I eat a sugar replacement my stomach tells me so (it's kind of a hungry/grumbly kind of feeling, it's distinct though) so generally I avoid them, I will say xylitol doesn't seem to do that to me but as far as I know that one is only used in gum so it's not like I'd be consuming very much of it.

Insulin without the calories? Anabolic dream.

**DanK** · 05-27-2007, 08:08 AM

Or dieter/diabetic nightmare, diet soda would be on the chopping block for a lot of diets that rely on low carbs if your body acted as though it was getting carbs even though the no cals... it'd be nice to know if there was a study either way.

I thought that everyone quit using aspartame (at least in the us?) and for the most part switched to sucralose (but not in canada where as I understand it their FDA has not approved it)?

**Nigeepoo** · 05-27-2007, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by DanK

I thought that everyone quit using aspartame (at least in the us?) and for the most part switched to sucralose (but not in canada where as I understand it their FDA has not approved it)?

Sucralose was approved in Canada in 1991 and is now approved in more than 40 countries, including the United States, which was granted FDA approval in April 1998. It was approved in the EU around 2003. See Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences

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