Cutting Out Diet Coke
Posted: Wed 11 June, 2008 Filed under: Depression, Health 3 Comments »I promise, I’m not going to turn into some kind of anti-Diet-Coke evangelist now that I’ve cut it out myself. Honest.
However, I did notice today via Bitful a couple of interesting articles…
- A short piece from the Guardian of a committed dietcokeaholic (hmm, can’t identify with that at all) who cut out fizzy drinks for a month – he felt so good from that, he hasn’t gone back to them yet
- Coca-Cola is phasing out a controversial additive that has been linked to damage to DNA and hyperactivity in children. (It’s a link to the Daily Mail <spit> I’m afraid, but there we go – they’re who had the story
- A story in the Ecologist : “Far from being the healthy drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals”
So there we go, more grist for the mill of stopping (and not going back to) drinking Diet Coke®.
Interestingly enough, I tried Diet Coke again this morning for the first time since cutting it out completely last August and found that after two or three mouthfuls I had to pour it away because I really didn’t like it.
good to hear you had a good holiday, ive never liked any form of the diet drinks, i can just about drink diet lemonaid i thnk it is worse than the normal drinks but i hardly drink fizzy drinks these days but i do like vdoka mixed with vimto
It’s the effect of the phosphates on people’s bones that concerns me most. If it were invented these days, I doubt it would be allowed.