What is this? I originally saw it in Men's Health or Men's Fitness, and I looked at the site, thinking it was a joke. I'm not quite understanding....but maybe I'm just dense.
And, what the hell is it doing in a "fitness" magazine? Sue the zero calorie beverage.....Those people want their empty calories, dammit!
Of course, regardless of whether it's Coke or Coke Zero, it's all crap you dump into your body anyway...
they(coke) are saying how coke zero tastes so good, people may mistake it for regular coke, hence the "taste confusion".
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My god, that's some of the worst humor I've seen in a long time...
Speaking of which, some of the ads and billboards I've seen around the city lately are horrible. They are just far too stupid to be considered funny, and I can usually laugh at anything.
I guess it's another example of the dumbing down of America.
Although, check my avatar. The grocery store scene from Hot Fuzz. So far, my wife and I are the only ones who understood the humor in that movie. Everyone else thought it was terrible.
There's no mistaking the taste of Coke Zero for regular Coke..........
I agree. It tastes nothing like regular Coke. Diet Coke with Splenda tasted a lot like regular to me, as did Pepsi One. Which, means I hated them. I love the taste of diet sodas. I guess it's what you grow up with...
I agree. It tastes nothing like regular Coke. Diet Coke with Splenda tasted a lot like regular to me, as did Pepsi One. Which, means I hated them. I love the taste of diet sodas. I guess it's what you grow up with...
I love coke zero, and like you, am a diet soda lover. Coke zero at least has a taste, unlike diet coke. I also like coke zero more than regular coke.
But the best diet drink, hands down, is fresca.
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"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
Although, check my avatar. The grocery store scene from Hot Fuzz. So far, my wife and I are the only ones who understood the humor in that movie. Everyone else thought it was terrible.
Wow, you two were definately meant for each other, then!
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It seems to be held in high esteem, far as I can tell. It has a 90% at RottenTomatoes, an amazingly high score given how bitchy and critical those people are.
I don't like the taste of pop, period. I drink milk and water, and that's pretty much it.
I don't get what the big deal is, why everyone is so hung up on having soda with lunch. Isn't your food enough flavour for you? Doesn't it "satisfy" you?
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Sometimes I'll have orange juice with my breakfast. For the most part though, if I want my servings of fruit, I'll just have a piece of fruit.
I like my food plain. I eat my oatmeal plain, I have cottage cheese straight out of the container, I don't put bbq sauce on my steak. I just don't live for food, I guess.
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I don't get what the big deal is, why everyone is so hung up on having soda with lunch. Isn't your food enough flavour for you? Doesn't it "satisfy" you?
I've tried eating hops and barley with a little water, but it never replaces the taste of a good Sam Adams!
I've noticed that so many people are drinking flavored water lately. I don't really get that either.....for the little flavor that it adds, I'll just drink the real stuff from the tap and save myself $1.35 a bottle!
I've got friends that won't even drink water unless it's flavored....WTF is that all about?
I've got friends that won't even drink water unless it's flavored....WTF is that all about?
At least they're drinking water instead of soda (unlike me right now)
I'd say every other large bottle of water I get, I'll dump in a generic Crystal Light lemon packet just to mix it up a little. Before those came out, it was just a smidge of plain lemon juice for me, but hey, I can be bought.
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Isn't your food enough flavour for you? Doesn't it "satisfy" you?
No.
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I love coke zero, and like you, am a diet soda lover. Coke zero at least has a taste, unlike diet coke. I also like coke zero more than regular coke.
But the best diet drink, hands down, is fresca.
This post is 100% accurate.
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I love coke zero, and like you, am a diet soda lover. Coke zero at least has a taste, unlike diet coke. I also like coke zero more than regular coke.
But the best diet drink, hands down, is fresca.
I'm so behind the times...haven't had a Fresca in over 30 years!
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I agree. It tastes nothing like regular Coke. Diet Coke with Splenda tasted a lot like regular to me, as did Pepsi One.
Really? To me, it's the opposite. Coke Zero tastes more like regular Coke and Diet Coke with Splenda tastes nothing like regular. I far prefer Coke Zero.
I'm so behind the times...haven't had a Fresca in over 30 years!
I hadn't either for many years, then a few years ago I started seeing it on the shelf and picked some up. Now I drink at least one a day and my wife and kids are addicted to it.
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It doesn't look like any of them are good for you.
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Zero calories, same great taste (and heart risks)
Diet soda linked to same health problems as sugary drinks in bubbly puzzle
Sodas — even diet ones — may be linked with increased risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, researchers said on Monday.
They found adults who drink one or more sodas a day — diet or regular — had about a 50 percent higher risk of metabolic syndrome — a cluster of risk factors such as excessive fat around the waist, low levels of “good” cholesterol, high blood pressure and other symptoms.
“When you have metabolic syndrome, your risk of developing heart disease or stroke doubles. You also have a risk of developing diabetes,” said Dr. Ramachandran Vasan of Boston University School of Medicine, whose work appears in the journal Circulation.
Prior studies have linked consumption of sugar-laden sodas with multiple risk factors for heart disease, but Vasan and colleagues also found the link extends to diet sodas.
The results surprised the researchers who expected to see a difference between regular and diet soda drinkers. It could be, they suggest, that even no-calorie sweet drinks increase the craving for more sweets, and that people who indulge in sodas probably have less healthy diets overall.
The finding comes from a massive, multi-generational heart study following residents of Framingham, Mass., a town about 25 miles west of Boston. The new study included about 6,000 middle-aged men and women who were observed over four years. They all started out healthy, with no metabolic syndrome.
Mystery weight gain
Those who drank one or more soft drinks a day had a 31 percent greater risk of becoming obese.
They had a 30 percent increased risk of developing increased waist circumference — which has been shown to predict heart disease risk better than weight alone.
They also had a 25 percent increased risk of developing high blood triglycerides as well as high blood sugar, and a 32 percent higher risk of having low high-density lipoprotein or ”good” cholesterol levels.
The researchers then analyzed a smaller sample of participants on whom data on regular and diet soft drink consumption was available. Those who drank one or more diet or regular sodas per day had a 50 to 60 percent increased risk for developing metabolic syndrome.
“The part about diet soda is more intriguing,” Vasan said.
He said people who drink soda, whether diet or sugar-sweetened, tend to have similar dietary patterns.
“On average, soda drinkers tend to eat more calories, consume more saturated fat and trans fat, eat less fiber, exercise less and be more sedentary,” Vasan said.
The researchers adjusted for those factors and still observed a significant link between soft drink consumption and the risk of developing metabolic syndrome.
Vasan said there are several theories about how diet sodas could increase a person’s metabolic risk.
Sweet tooth may be to blame
“One possibility is that diet soda is sweet. Maybe drinking something sweet conditions you in such a way that you develop a preference for sweet things,” he said.
“Also, diet soda is a liquid. When you take liquids at a meal, they don’t satiate you as much (as solids),” he said.
Poor overall health habits among diet soda drinker could be partly to blame. Barry Popkin, of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who has called for cigarette-style surgeon general warnings about the negative health effects of soda, says that much of the market for diet sodas are people who have unhealthy lifestyles and know they need to lose weight — with the other portion being thin people who want to stay that way. That means many people drinking diet sodas have unhealthy habits that could lead to increased heart disease risks, whether they drink diet soda or not.
Another theory holds that the substance that gives soda its caramel color promotes resistance to insulin, which is needed to process calories. The coloring has also been associated with inflammation in animal experiments.
“These are all theories which we have not studied,” Vasan said. “We’d like to see these data tested and replicated or refuted. We’d also like nutrition scientists to conduct additional research to help us understand why diet soda is associated with metabolic risk.”
Susan Feely, president of the American Beverage Association, said the notion that diet drinks are associated with bulging waistlines defies common sense.
“How can something with zero calories that’s 99 percent water with a little flavoring in it ... cause weight gain?” she said.
Without a more definitive explanation, Vasan offers only this advice to diet soda drinkers: “consume in moderation and stayed tuned for more research.”
Speaking of which, some of the ads and billboards I've seen around the city lately are horrible. They are just far too stupid to be considered funny, and I can usually laugh at anything.
There's this awsum billboard around here, cracks me up. It's an ad saying how the yellow pages is the BEST place to advertise. I like the irony.
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I don't get what the big deal is, why everyone is so hung up on having soda with lunch. Isn't your food enough flavour for you? Doesn't it "satisfy" you?
I like what I eat, and I like to have something fizzy that tastes completely different as a pallet cleanser. I don't like water, it makes the food linger funny.
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Eat to live, don't live to eat.
I like to enjoy my food. I also like to have sex without trying to procreate, and I tend to enjoy that too. I also prefer it when I enjoy my exercise.
Enjoyment means more pleasure. More pleasure means more reasons to do something. So if I have more reason to do something like eat healthy and work out, stands to reason it's ok to take that pleasure for what it is.
Has anyone seen this ad?
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