Green Tea vs. Diet Coke

[Lee Anne]

Oh Lori, I had to laugh reading your post. As of today, I have started weaning myself off. I'm drinking green tea with my meals, and alternating between a glass of water and and glass of diet coke the rest of the day. Here's hoping I can stick with it. After a week of this, I'll do two glasses of water to one coke. I haven't noticed any change in my energy level today. I stopped smoking cold turkey almost 4 years ago, so if I can do that, surely I have enough will power to do this. What does it do to your bones?

Lee Anne

 

[smoogy]

Well the phosporous leeches out the calcium in your bones & makes them more porous from whatI understand. But I have been drinking lots & lots of Cokes since 1990 & my last bone density test I was doing very well. Go figure.


Marla

 

[NurseLRT]

LeAnne, it sounds like you are doing pretty good with weaning yourself. Congrats on quitting smoking, that is a true accomplishment.

You know, I can't stand real coke, way too sweet, and for all the diet coke I drink, I couldn't afford all of those calories. Maybe I think it is too sweet because I am used to diet. Anyway, if I can quit the diet coke thing, I may try to have a real coke on special occasions instead of having the aspartame in diet coke.

I did very well today, had 2 cups of green tea, one glass of diet coke, and lots of water. I am now out of diet coke, and I am not buying anymore. I am sort of sad, I am gonna miss that Diet Coke.:-(

Lori

 

[EricaH]

I gave up diet sodas 3 years ago. I was drinking a LOT (probably a 12 pack of cans) of diet sodas daily and gave them up cold turkey. I replaced them with flavored seltzer - it has the carbonation that I "need" sometimes and comes in a lot of flavors for variety.

After I quit drinking diet soda, my dental check-ups have been 100% better. I was getting frustrated because every time I went to the dentist, I had cavities. Since I stopped drinking the soda, I rarely have any problems. Sometimes I'm tempted to buy a single serve bottle of diet coke or some other kind of diet soda, but I think about the negative effects of nutrasweet and how the soda affected my teeth and I always choose not to drink any.

Also, I ended up with a surprise pregnancy soon after I quit drinking the diet soda so I was very, very glad that I quit when I did. I would have worried a lot about the effect of all the chemicals on my unborn baby.

Erica

 

[candi]

Kathryn,

I'm glad you brought up the phosphorus. We have a guy at work that has sever back problems. His doctor says it's because he drank so much diet coke over the years, the phosphorus started eating at the bones in his back.

He's already had back surgery once and now he walks with a sort of hunch. This guy is not old...I think around 40. Scary.