Diet cokes

[Pipboy]

I'm attempting to cut and I have a diet coke once a day, usually with lunch. Will it hurt my loses? Sure, the can says 0 for everything but sodium but there are always those "Aha, gotcha!" snags in life.

First search turned up nothing, a second yeilded a thread exactly similar to this one. I apologize for the noobish double post and I can't seem to find a saving-grace delete button.

 

[JOHNYORK]

wont hurt ure loses but its bad for overall health i hear

 

[garethhe]

I wouldn't be concerned about that...one diet coke a day isn't going to noticably alter your body composition from an external-appearance perspective. It's not good for your overall health, though, as Johnyork says.

 

[GFR]

I never drink it, but after reading this thread I went out and got one...yummy

 

[soxmuscle]

if i've got a sweet tooth, its much better to have a diet soda compared to mostly anything else.

i no longer have sweet teeth though; not because i don't crave sweets from time to time, but because i knocked out all of my teeth.

 

[michael74737]

Diet soda is ok from time to time but idealy i should never be consumed. No it wont impact ur loses

 

[Pipboy]

As long as it doesn't affect my loses then it's all good. I'm sure a car crash will kill me way before a diet coke a day

 

[Jodi]

idealy i should never be consumed.

Why do you say that?

 

[bigss75]

Because it has a pH of 3 which is alot more acidic then regular water

 

[bigss75]

I do enjoy it however

 

[Jodi]

Because it has a pH of 3 which is alot more acidic then regular water

Well so doesn't blueberries and walnuts and peanuts as well as beef and shellfish but I'm not gonna stop eating those

 

[bigss75]

Naturally occuring acid

 

[squanto]

woah man, natural acid? do you still see sound?

 

[GreenMan]

Because it has a pH of 3 which is alot more acidic then regular water

As opposed to your stomach contents, which have a pH of 1 because of all the hydrochloric acid in there.

 

[bigss75]

Its job is to break down food. I dont drink soda to break down food

 

[DOMS]

Its job is to break down food. I dont drink soda to break down food

Okay, answer me this: What is the "bad pH" supposed to do that makes it so bad?

 

[GreenMan]

Its job is to break down food. I dont drink soda to break down food

Sorry dude, I think you are missing the point. The stomach has a pH of about 1 to break down protein & fat. pH (if I remember school chemistry right) is logarithmic, so 1 is 10 times more acidic than 2, and 100 times more acidic than 3. If you drink a can of coke at pH 3, it isn't going to affect your stomach acidity one iota, and even if it did, it wouldn't matter because your stomach is a highly acidic environment anyway.

 

[bigss75]

Net metabolic acidosis causes Osteoporosis, Hypertension, Kidney Stones, Stroke.

 

[GreenMan]

Net metabolic acidosis causes Osteoporosis, Hypertension, Kidney Stones, Stroke.

Okay - can anyone demonstrate that the acids in coke pass unchanged into the system. If they can in any great amount, then it's bad.

I don't have the foggiest - any ideas ?