Cutting Out Caffeine

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't diet soda also have some of the same effects as soda? Obviously not in the sugar content, but doesn't your body react the same way to all of the other processed crap? Jus' asking for those in the know.

 

Oh, my, yes. Any carbonated drink carries some risk like that.

 

I actually can't drink more than one diet soda every few days or so ... my body has a strange reaction to the artificial sweetener, and my spine starts to ache. Regular soda is no problem. But yeah, I'd say the diet stuff has some similar effects, just not the calories.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/13/health/webmd/main701408.shtml

More Diet Drinks, More Weight Gain

Fowler's team looked at seven to eight years of data on 1,550 Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white Americans aged 25 to 64. Of the 622 study participants who were of normal weight at the beginning of the study, about a third became overweight or obese.

For regular soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

* 26 percent for up to 1/2 can each day

* 30.4 percent for 1/2 to one can each day

* 32.8 percent for 1 to 2 cans each day

* 47.2 percent for more than 2 cans each day.

For diet soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

* 36.5 percent for up to 1/2 can each day

* 37.5 percent for 1/2 to one can each day

* 54.5 percent for 1 to 2 cans each day

* 57.1 percent for more than 2 cans each day.

 

I would question the cause-and-effect of that.

The people drinking diet soda would naturally be the ones more predisposed to obesity. That's why they're drinking diet soda.

 

And if these people are just leading their normal lives with that, I would imagine there was also a hefty dose of "Whopper, large fries...and a Diet Coke" syndrome. Because, you know, that makes it healthy.

 

OK, stupid question, but I'm too lazy to look it up: What are the health risks of caffeine? I've guzzled it forever and have no idea what it's doing to me. Do I want to know?

 

It's saving you from Alzheimer's disease, as already noted.

 

A couple of yeara ago, I went two and a half days with drinking at least a gallon of water each day and eating nothing but long-sliced Italian bread to see what it would do to my body.

Needless to say I am addicted to caffeine. At the end of that 2.5 day experiment, I was so violently ill that I had to sleep it off (going to be at 4pm mind you). I had a throbbing headache, was burning up and wanted to swallow a twenty ounce bottle of razor blades.

I'm never doing that again.

Like someone above this said, caffeine is really my only vice. I'll deal with it.

 

Anyone know how coffee affects your sinuses? Mine have been going crazy, headache, the whole nine. Come to work, have a cup of joe and all is right with the world again. Is it the coffee, or the Ibuprofen I took?