Coke Zero - Is it better than normal fizzy drinks?

alandbailey

:eek:Coke Zero tastes horrible - Pepsi Max is much better.:D

A._Badger

Quasar wrote: »

No actually, western health does not continue to improve. Quite the opposite. Health is more than just longevity. We have more obesity, more diabetes and more cancer rates than ever before and than what we choose to call "undeveloped" societies. The fact we have effective palliative cure and muddle through to old age doesn't come close to the sort of health we could have if we took more care as to what goes into our mouths..

Actually, there is no valid statistical measure other than longevity - particularly in view of the ' worried well' phenomenon, so frequently exhibited on this forum.

The measure of 'good health' is hopelessly subjective and changeable with prevailing medical fads and fashions.

Moreover, many of the diseases which people seem increasingly to suffer from are very much a factor of age or survival from a childhood that 100 years ago would have ended very abruptly.

Not long ago I as discussing this is with a consultant friend (she works at a major university teaching hospital). I asked her the $64,000 question she must have been asked so many times: why is there so much cancer around?

Her answer was 'There isn't. People just live long enough to get it.'.

You can make as many assertions about 'natural' and 'processed' foods as you like and, while I might even agree with some of them, there is precious little hard scientific evidence to back most of them - and certainly not the junk science epidemiological "studies" beloved of the tabloids and the murkier realms of the fringe health industry.

As for all the scary stuff about phosphoric acid and bone density, even the British Dietetic Association has opined (google it) that the quantities of "fizzy drinks" needed to cause a problem would be very great. In an article in the Daily Mail (oh, no!) a spokesperson was quoted as saying while two to three litres per day might be a problem, two or three drinks, wouldn't.

The hysteria about "fizzy drinks" is just that - hysteria, whipped-up by a health lobby watching the "fatty food - especially animal fats" platform starting to crumble beneath its feet, as could have been predicted it eventually would.

A final thought. Just because something is 'natural' doesn't mean it is safe. Just because it is made in a factory doesn't mean that it isn't.

Quasar

I'm happy to agree to disagree.

stephen77

A._Badger wrote: »

A final thought. Just because something is 'natural' doesn't mean it is safe. Just because it is made in a factory doesn't mean that it isn't.

100% agree with this.

Raddish have a chemical in them, that is 10 times higher than allowed to be added by EEC law into food.
Yet no one tries to ban Raddish.

lazer

I would not drink any diet drink - for all the time I drink anything other than water, milk or tea (Or Alcohol!) I would prefer to drink things containing proper sugar than some chemical sweetner

browneyedbazzi

stephen77 wrote: »

there is some report suggesting you eat more. however I believe that in responsibility not to eat more not the drinks company for offering a choices.

The drinks companies are free to offer people choices - but people who are choosing a 'diet' drink thinking it will aid weight loss should be aware that those products can lead to cravings for high carb foods and thus be counter productive.

funnyguy

They taste nice washing down a kebab

geordie_joe

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

I'll stick to water!

Drinking too much water can kill you too!

funnyguy

I know my fish died after 8 years.

iammumtoone

stephen77 wrote: »

100% agree with this.

Raddish have a chemical in them, that is 10 times higher than allowed to be added by EEC law into food.
Yet no one tries to ban Raddish.

Is that why they taste awful?

I don't drink anything with artificial sweeteners in them, on the occasion I have a fizzy drink I go for the 'full fat' version.

what annoys me is they sell 'no added sugar' squash with the sweeteners in fair enough people are entitled to a choice but more and more they are adding sweeteners to the 'normal' squashes as well. It is getting harder to buy products without these additives in.