what about diet coke?

Question

how does diet coke effect your body?
does it make you gain wait?
can you get fatter?
what happens???

Answer 1

Diet Coke or Diet Coca-Cola is a sugar-free soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company. It was introduced in the United States in July 1982, and was the first new brand since 1886 to use the Coca-Cola trademark. The product quickly overtook Tab in sales. In most non-English-speaking markets it is called Coca-Cola Light, Coke Light or Coke Lite.

Diet Coke was sweetened with aspartame as soon as it became available in the U.S., 1983; however, to save money, this was originally in a blend with saccharin. After Diet Rite cola advertised its 100 percent use of aspartame, and the manufacturer of NutraSweet (then, G.D. Searle & Company) warned that the NutraSweet trademark would not be made available to a blend of sweeteners, Coca-Cola switched the formula to 100 percent NutraSweet, later switching back and doing without the NutraSweet trademark. Diet Coke from fountain dispensers still contains some saccharin (to extend shelf life)

In other countries, where cyclamates were not banned, as they were in the U.S. and the United Kingdom in 1970, Diet Coke or Coca-Cola Light may be sweetened with a blend containing cyclamates, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium. Fans of the drink often express a strong preference for either the European formula or the American-British-Canadian version. Contrary to some reports, Coca-Cola Zero is not the European Coca-Cola Light formula.

In 2005, under pressure from retailer Wal-Mart (which was impressed with the popularity of Splenda sweetener), and despite their previous blunder with New Coke, the company released a new formulation called "Diet Coke sweetened with Splenda". Sucralose replaces aspartame in this version. Early sales reports for this version were not quite as strong as anticipated; however, Coca-Cola did little advertising for the brand, investing money and advertising in Coca-Cola Zero instead. The introduction of the Splenda sweetened version of Diet Coke saw complaints to bottlers, as store shelves would often go with very little of the normal version of Diet Coke.

Diet Coke does not utilize a modified form of the Coca-Cola recipe but is instead an entirely different formula. The controversial New Coke, introduced in 1985, used a version of the Diet Coke recipe that contained sugar and had a slightly different balance of ingredients. In 2004 Coca-Cola introduced Coca-Cola C2, which it claims tastes much closer to Coca-Cola but contains half the carbohydrates.

When Tab was released in 1963, the Coca-Cola Company refused to use the Coca-Cola brandname, fearing that its flagship brand might suffer by being used on another product, the long-term viability of which was uncertain. Its rival Pepsi had no such qualms, and after the long-term success of its sugar-free brand Diet Pepsi, launched in 1964, became clear, Coca-Cola decided to launch a new sugar-free brand under the Coca-Cola name to compete with Diet Pepsi. With the well-known name, it could be marketed more extensively than the more anonymously dubbed Tab.

Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi have capitalized on the markets of people who require low sugar regimens, such as diabetics and people with other health conditions, athletes, and people who want to lose weight. In the UK, a 330 ml can of Diet Coke contains around 1.3 Calories (5 kilojoules) compared to 142 Calories (595 kJ) for a regular can of Coca-Cola.

Diet Coke (and other beverages using aritificial sweeteners) relies on Aspartame, which has been blamed by some scientists and medical professionals for possibly causing serious illnesses (such as brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma) when consumed in large quantities. Other researchers have found no such link, or believe that the quantities in sodas such as Diet Coke are much too small to cause adverse effects.

Ingredients
Carbonated water
Caramel Color
Aspartame
Phosphoric acid
Potassium benzoate (to protect taste)
Natural flavors
Citric acid
Caffeine

Trivia
It is possible to cause a sudden high-pressure release of carbon dioxide known as a Mentos eruption by inserting multiple Mentos into a container of Diet Coke. Mythbusters found this is caused because of nucleation as well as certain catalysts in the Diet Coke and Mentos themselves. The phenomenon is described in some detail by the General Chemistry Online! FAQ, which also attributes it to nucleation.

Answer 2

Diet coke has zero calories. Basic nutrition tells us that we gain weight by taking in more calories than we expend. It takes about 5000 calories to gain a pound. So there is no way that diet coke can make you fatter. That is a myth.

Answer 3

Diet Coke does not make you fat, unless you are using it to wash down burgers and fries. There is caffiene in DC that may be of concern to you if it effects your sleep. Also some people find the acid levels in DC can cause stomach discomfort.

Answer 4

diet coke has no calories and no sugar. you don't gain weight from it, but i got aspertaim (spelling?) poisoning from it. so be careful. if you drink it all the time you WIILLLL get a caffeine addictions, so be careful

Answer 5

You have to understand the food industry pays off government for favorable legislation and they are greasy (read: evil) as hell. check out the book titled "Toxic Sludge is good for you"

Aspartame is toxic and causes blurred vision. it was originally made illegal for safety concerns then Donald Rumsfeld.. yes the war criminal with a million skeletons in the closet.. bought the company and it became legal.. SURPRISE....YOUR HEALTH IS AT RISK IF YOU DRINK ENOUGH!!

also sweetness in foods, triggers an insulin response, which creates fat anyways.. even without the calories.. look it all up and see if my points hold water.. never trust the doctors with your heath if the corrupt government that regulates them receives $ and billions are also made from your $ickness!! DUH

Answer 6

avoid eating you re stressed or bored

Answer 7

natural applesauce is an excellent dip for fruits such as bananas and melons

Answer 8

The aspartame is a poison and can cause blindness and other nasty side effects.
The CO2 in soda can harm you by causing weight gain thus making you fatter.
Try water it is better for you.

Answer 9

All sodas are bad for you. The carbonation expands your stomach and you may eat more. People who have had gastric bypass are told this and cannot drink carbonated drinks. So they effect everyone.

Answer 10

make your cosmo 100 calories skinnier by mixing a raspberry infused vodka with club soda