Coke zero-good or bad?

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I'm trying to lose some weight, so I've been thinking of what to eat and drink. I thought I had the drink thing down when a friend of mine said I could a lot of weight if I switched over to coke zero, since I used to drink about 4-8 cans of coca-cola a day. So I've been doing that for awhile, but then I heard that coke zero is actually worse for you.

Is this true? Mind you, I'm not on my cola ingredients so I was just wondering, is coke zero bad for you or good (or at least a better alternative than regular coke)for you? And if its bad, what would be a better alternative besides water?

Well it tastes better then diet coke, but the problem with any diet pop containing aspartame, and
may have some toxic effects on the body, I have heard that diet pop may contribute to obesity.
I only drink coke zero every other day, my prefered choice to drink is green tea, and I drink over
60oz. per day

The canadian version has aspartame

Coke Zero does have aspartame. The entire point of diet soda is that it is calorie free and therefore does NOT cause obesity. I believe that some people have hypothesized that people who drink a lot of diet soda develop crazy sweet tooths (teeth?) and therefore end up eating more in the long run and becoming obese, but trust me, if you are trying to lose weight, you should definitely go with diet soda over regular soda which has tons of sugar and calories. Also, drinking a lot of water is a nice way to lose weight. It keeps your metabolism going and your body actually has to burn calories to process water.

It does have aspartame, which is probably the single worst additive known to man. The story of how it was approved reads like a horror novel, and with its FDA-acknowledged 92 known side-effects including cancer, stroke, heart failure, death, gradual organ failure etc etc it's pretty horrendous stuff.

In short, if you're going to drink coke, drink the real stuff with sugar in it. Sugar is bad, yes, but it's far better for you than aspartame or any other artificial sweeteners.

I think Coke are actually bringing out a coke sweetened with Stevia though soon, which is another natural sweetener (made from the pressed leaves of the South American Stevia plant) that has no side effects, no calories, is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, and in some studies is shown to have a positive effect on blood sugar levels as well. So keep an eye out for that.

It would be great if they made real coke, without the HFCS, I think thats the biggest assault on public health.

Ahhh, the good old manufacturer front-group pages eh! They're funded by and run by the people who make the product, so they MUST be SOOOOOOOO neutral and impartial and unbiased and would tell us if it was toxic, wouldn't they?


Notice how both those sites are run by the Calorie Control Centre? They're a very, very well-known front group for NutraSweet, run by and paid for by the NutraSweet company. Basically, they're the artifical sweetener industry's propaganda machine - part of the company itself.


Would suggest this brilliant piece first:
http://www.bevnet.com/bevboard/sweetene ... -text.html


Then these:

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/20 ... or_ban.htm
http://suicideandmentalhealthassociatio ... rtame.html
http://www.wnho.net/bogus_aspartame_study.htm
http://www.rense.com/general49/asap.htm
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?a ... 4976744624

I recommend trying to get away from carbonated drinks altogether. In fact, I recommend you get away from anything acidic besides tea and juices. I make an acception to those because they have anti-oxidant and anti-cancer benefits to at least partially make up for their acidity.

Drink springwater, as it has minerals and is either alkaline, or at least has a neutral PH (7 or above is good).