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    1 day ago

    I love the juxtaposition of sugar free Coke with sugar added Jack Daniels. Dodging and weaving against diabetes.

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        Shits good though. Got it for free one time and I thought to myself, shit I should always buy this stuff. And never once have I bought it since because I saw the price tags

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      I just like the taste of coke zero, ill eat candy/dessert still, save the calories id get out of drinking coke, gotta have some vices or you’ll be an uptight removed

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        Coke zero is worse for your health. Artificial sweeteners have pretty bad health effects, especially the one used in coke.

        It is heavily suspected of being able to cause, heart issues, and having the counter intuitive effect to actually make your brain want more sugar, because the complete sugar activation mechanism isn’t triggered properly. It is also slightly suspected to cause cancer, although researchers don’t agree at all on this subject.

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          19 hours ago

          You prob believe vaping is worse than cigs too

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            Nope. Vaping is so much better (less bad) than smoking. Combustion sucks.

            I suggest you do your research.

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              17 hours ago

              in what situation is low temp vapor worse than burning smoke and ash in your lungs, ignore the chemicals, which are always better in vapes, even american spirit all natural tobacco have chemicals and aren’t really all natural, tar is always worse

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                In the situation that you are putting food flavorings in your lungs. Not made to go there… if you’re just vaping pure pg / vg that’s different. Look up popcorn lung for an example of why food flavorings should not be inhaled.

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          Coke zero is worse for your health.

          nobody who drinks Coke care for their health.

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            8 hours ago

            Diet and sugar-free sodas are all marketing BS. It’s all meant to get one to think it’s “healthy” rather than “less terrible”

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            I’d agree otherwise, else Coke Zero wouldn’t exist I guess.

            Everyone cares for their health, they just think it’s “not that bad”, which it is in a way, but that depends on the level on health and risk you’re willing to have

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              I’m not a doctor but my understanding of the topic is that it’s pretty clear : any soda is bad.

              Sure, a Coke a week, in a cocktail or otherwise, does not matter much but AFAIK people who buy entire packs (as in the photo) drink sodas at every meal and that’s unhealthy over long term, no matter what brand or type of soda it is.

              So assuming that’s a well known medical fact and people still do it, then one can say they do NOT care for their health, no?

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          Uhm, source??

          I love how people just feel like artificial sweeteners must be bad for you. They’re okay. Not healthy, but way better than sugar.

          Also: Coke can still be kinda unhealthy, other ingredients etc…

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            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame

            For transparency, here is another page that seems more in favor of Aspartame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

            Here’s the conclusion of Yuka, which is a lot more on the “alarmist” side: https://help.yuka.io/l/en/article/r2x5e36paq-aspartame (note that the US FDA is considered as really lax compared to some other countries in Europe in terms of additives and health concerns worldwide)

            Many studies show that artificial sweeteners doesn’t help with weight loss at all

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              Having less calories helps? Those ppl they studied likely didnt practice cico and ate more because they thought they saved calories from drinking less soda so they ended up at maintenence or over

              If they studied ppl who thought they were drinking regular soda but it was sugar free than youd see wight loss, but they were aware that it was sugar free and 0 calories so they ate more

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                The links I listed are only about the artificial sweeteners, not sugar-free sodas

                But the main thing is: it makes you want more sugar, so you’ll end up consuming more, which doesn’t help or even makes weight regulation worse. You’ll end up getting the calories in a way or another, hopefully from good sources though