Diet Soda buzz January 19, 2008

When you try to tell people something there are always 3 types of people. The people who agree. The people who disagree and the people who disagree and do something about it. I am the 3rd person and when i disagree with someone i actually look it up and proove my point. When i had an argument about diet soda( i know what a stupid argument) i actually looked up info on the health benefits of diet soda.  Diet Soda is healthy in my opinion. It has no calories, it either has very low sodium or none at all. And if your lucky it wont have caffiene. Though all of these posistive things about diet soda are well and good people always have their different takes about it. Like i read about someone who said diet soda was bad because it makes you feel like you can splurge. I guess that means if you go to Mcdonalds and you say can i have a Large fries a double quarter pounder a snack wrap and a DIET SODA. Then you are splurging. Which i agree to some extent. I am guilty of doing that. But my defense is that if i have a 1,300 calorie meal why add 400 more calories with regular soda! Why not just have 0 calories so you can keep that 1,300 calorie meal! Thats not a healthy way of thinking about it but hey, as long as it taste good and it keeps me from gaining weight im good. I really would like to know what makes diet soda taste sweet. I heard some brands have splenda, which in my opinion in certain sodas has a bitter after taste but whatever. Some brands are using different types if sugar substitutes to make there soda taste sweet. For instance i am looking at right now a bottle of Fanta Zero. Its a new Diet version of the sugary fanta soda drink. On the bottle it claims to be sugar free, calorie free ( although there is a seperare area that says low calorie….okay they need to make up there minds) and lastly it says caffeine free. It doesnt mention splenda so they must be using a different type of sugar sub.

Well in any case i think diet soda is a much healthier choice over regular soda/or juice/ or punch/ or ades. But of course the master of all healthy drinks alwasy comes down to the o naturale water.