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Kitty4670
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26 Aug 2024, 2:20 am

why soda is bad for you?

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26 Aug 2024, 3:09 am

It's very high in sugar. Which is not necessarily terrible, but it's generally best to limit sugar intake.

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26 Aug 2024, 3:27 am

That's why I drink the Zero Sugar stuff, so I can still enjoy my fizz.

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27 Aug 2024, 3:35 am

Dose zero sugar soda still have sugar?

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27 Aug 2024, 7:15 am

Kitty4670 wrote:

Dose zero sugar soda still have sugar?

No, it has zero sugar.

Soda is bad for you because it leeches minerals from your bones, this is an issue even if it's sugar free. This is a bigger concern for women and other AFAB people.

https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/feat ... teoporosis

Pounding back a bunch of artificial sweeteners is bad for your metabolism. They're worse for you than just consuming sugar.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what ... -sweetener
https://well.org/gut-health/artificial- ... ut-health/

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27 Aug 2024, 2:32 pm

I heard fruit juice is even worse for you than pop, even 100% juice with no added sugar, because it has even more sugar and calories.

Fruit juice is also full of arsenic. :skull:

Fortunately, I don't drink much pop or juice. My eating habits are bad enough as it is, though.

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27 Aug 2024, 3:29 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

That's why I drink the Zero Sugar stuff, so I can still enjoy my fizz.

Sugar free is arguably worse. The body prepares for the sugar before it gets to the stomach and then has to do a u-turn for the food that does show up.

It's best to just limit consumption.

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27 Aug 2024, 3:31 pm

Kitty4670 wrote:

Dose zero sugar soda still have sugar?

No sugar there, but there is a difference between no sugar and no sugar added. No sugar added is usually the way to go when available.

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29 Aug 2024, 12:32 am

Kitty4670 wrote:

why soda is bad for you?

All the sugar can contribute to diabetes.

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29 Aug 2024, 10:24 am

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:

Kitty4670 wrote:

why soda is bad for you?

All the sugar can contribute to diabetes.

True. And to make matters worse soda doesn't have much of anything to stop it from spiking your blood sugar levels or any sort of vitamins, minerals or other nutritional value to make up for it. An apple has a lot of sugar, but it also has things like fiber and antioxidants.

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lostonearth35 wrote:

I heard fruit juice is even worse for you than pop, even 100% juice with no added sugar, because it has even more sugar and calories.

Fruit juice is also full of arsenic. :skull:

Fortunately, I don't drink much pop or juice. My eating habits are bad enough as it is, though.

I don't drink too much soda or juice.

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05 Jan 2025, 1:47 pm

I can't tell if you're correcting me or not, but in Canada we call it pop and not soda. I don't know why, but we do.

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05 Jan 2025, 5:04 pm

Downunder soda refers only to soda water, (Carbonated water) and contains no sugars.

Sugar refers to a variety of substances, although generically refers to sucrose which is actually two different sugars bonded together...glucose and fructose. These are 2 of the 3 simple sugars (the other being galactose, which you don't often hear of)
Lactose (glucose + galactose) made from milk is the only sugar not generally derived from plants.
They can all have significant health effects of taken in excess...
You may baulk at putting 2 spoons of sugar in your coffee, yet a can of coke has at least 10.

I'm not going to start on sugar substitutes, many of which I consider worse due to different health effects.

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05 Jan 2025, 5:10 pm

We call it pop too

But I like a drink of pop every now and then regardless

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06 Jan 2025, 1:18 am

lostonearth35 wrote:

I heard fruit juice is even worse for you than pop, even 100% juice with no added sugar, because it has even more sugar and calories.

Fruit juice is also full of arsenic. :skull:

Fortunately, I don't drink much pop or juice. My eating habits are bad enough as it is, though.

wait what.. ARSENIC :skull:

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06 Jan 2025, 1:14 pm

Kitty4670 wrote:

Dose zero sugar soda still have sugar?

Artificial sweeteners, but not pure sugar.

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