My name is Heavenly Housewife, and I am addicted to Diet Coke… I think. Yeah, probably. I don’t have that many health vices. I never smoke, or drink, and I exercise regularly (…sometimes). The thing is, I just can’t seem to go a day without my beloved Diet Coke. I drink about 3 half litre bottles a day. I know its weird, but it helps my day go by. Is Diet Coke such a bad thing? There is so much conflicting information on the Internet, you really don’t know what’s true.
To some extent you can say that I’ve used diet soda as a weight loss tool. You see, I’m not terribly into juices, and I am not that partial to the idea of drinking my calories (occasional fatty milkshakes are excluded). But sometimes its great have something with a bit of flavor and sparkle while you are trying not to think about cake. Diet Coke does that for me. Still, it has not given me total immunity to glimpses the cake fairy who pops her head around the door every five minutes letting me know, “its tea time daaaaaaahling!” Ha, you didn’t know my cake fairy speaks just like I do, did you? I just have a drink of my soda. “I cant really see you you wicked fairy with your piggy tail,” I reply, (but of course I actually do). Also, Diet Coke is something to sip and make me look busy while the people around me are eating the stuff I really want, like pizza, burgers, fries and the like. It allows me to pretend that I don’t really want what they are eating… ah, the lies we tell ourselves!
Whenever I visit my grandmother, she always asks me, “You still aren’t drinking that Diet Coke are you? You know it causes bone loss.” Does it? It also ruins the enamel on your teeth- though I haven’t found this to be the case for myself (and neither has my dentist for that matter). There are even claims that Diet Coke makes you GAIN weight! Oh, and lets not forget the biggest threat of them all: it gives you cancer!!! Does it, or is this just one of many media scare tactics? I theorise that on a slow news day, the media loves nothing better than to put the fear of God into us.
Frankly I am so sick and tired of some of the stuff that comes out in the media: don’t eat this, don’t eat that:
- Fish, which is is full of healthy fats and lean proteins, can give you mercury poisoning.
- Aside from soft drinks, citrus fruits, honey, and raisins, despite their health benefits, can also cause permanent damage to your teeth … (so does that mean I shouldn’t eat them?). Are we also not told that honey is a great and healthy sugar substitute?
- Any foods with aspartame are thought to cause Cancer. But is it better to eat sugar and maybe get diabetes?
- Oh and the one that gets me the most is stupid things people say about my best friend, the carb. For goodness sakes, people have been eating bread since way before Jesus was born, but obesity has only been an issue in the last 50 years. Any guesses as to why??? It’s not rocket science, I’ll tell you that much!
Have you or someone you know stopped drinking Diet Coke and noticed that it made you happier or healthier in some way? I really would like to know. Do you have any big health vices? Do share! Do you think drinking Diet Coke is a bad habit? Should I quit, or do you think its acceptable to have a little vice … or two?
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