Diet Coke vs Normal Can Coke

6pack said:
carbonated drinks are a mix of carbon dioxide and flavoured sugar water. carbon dioxide is bad for health any way you look at it. its a poisonous gas, else the body wont be burping it out in minutes after you drink it.
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CO2 is deadly gas :O, i had always thought that CO is a poisonous gas not CO2
 
go for buttermilk/lassi/chaas/shikanji/jal jeera/frozen coconut water/fruit juice/sugar cane juice - these are cheaper/tastier/healthier. I rarely have aerated drinks apart from mixing them with alcohol.
 
sunny27 said:
go for buttermilk/lassi/chaas/shikanji/jal jeera/frozen coconut water/fruit juice/sugar cane juice - these are cheaper/tastier/healthier. I rarely have aerated drinks apart from mixing them with alcohol.
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Frozen coconut water ?? You mean the packaged one available in stores ? If yes then that is also not good.
Buttermilk is yes a very very good choice.
 
Aerated drinks whether diet or not, ie with artifical sweetner or normal, they always have empty calories. Better to avoid. I have them IFF I have no water on hand OR its damn hot.

As for those recomending the nimbu pani and all natural alternatives, ensure that its from a good shop. I had fresh carrot juice at a shop and had a case of the loosies the very next day :P Since then, avoiding natural stuff unless there is no soft drinks in the vicinity.
 
^Natural weight loss...You should have continued it..lol..Speaking of veg juices...beetroot juice tastes real good.I totally forgot salt lassi with ginger flavour.tastes real good in hot summer sun..
 
Being.smart said:
booo, yeah i had also planned to take coffee, but i don't know to use burner, so bought a espresso machine, but still failed to generate good froth for cappuccino
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I dont know what you are talking about, I just press the button which reads espresso.. :p
 
abracadabra said:
Care to read something before you dig your own grave? how many calories does a coke has versus diet coke?

Also if you have seen the way in which these cans are refilled, packed and transported, I bet you, Coke or for that matter any bottled or aerated drink will never cross your mind!
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Huh, for that matter, if you see the way drinking water is handled and transported to your house, you wouldn't be drinking it either.

Scaremongering about Coke is stupid. What is required here is moderation. Coke and any other aerated drink is just CO2+Water+Sugar+Flavour, maybe aspartame or similar compound in their 'Diet' variations to remove calories from sugar. Apart from that, a little Caffeine and other similar substance is added to give you the desired 'kick' and to make you come back for the drink again.

Drinking an aerated drink regularly has to be the most stupid diet decision ever. Even as a thirst quencher it satisfies no proper role. Filling up with empty calories, and one that is loaded with CO2 will just make you sick over time.

It's OK to drink it once in a while, maybe once or twice a week, when you've gone to a movie or on a weekend party or anything as such, but please avoid drinking it regularly.
 
On my stay in US, i would always see people loading their carts with all sorts of aerated drinks and in huge quantities, like multiple 2 liter bottles or 3-4 crates with around 12 smaller bottles per crate. Not being judgmental but i did see few Indian families too doing the same which personally i was bit surprised about. But then some people are affected more by the environment they are living in. Personally we rarely bought these drinks home and the worst part was that if i wanted to get it, the smallest i could get in the big stores like walmart etc was 1 Liter bottle. Nothing small. May be smaller stores would be carrying smaller bottles. And the cans etc would not available individually but in packs of 12 or so.

Bottomline is that these packaged drinks (sodas, coke and all, fruit juices etc ) are all bad for health.
 
raksrules said:
Along with all those coke cans, also get your blood sugar checked frequently. :|
You are probably ignorant of the fact that none of these aerated drinks are healthy and have no nutritional value whatsoever. Your question should be what causes less damage to me of these two ?
Similarly i would also suggest not to have those Real and Tropicana juices. They are either made from concentrated and also have high sugar content. Better have freshly squeezed juices.

Go natural, have Nimbu Paani (not the bottled ones) but freshly squeezed, coconut water.

In fact yesterday evening only i had a Ganga Jamuna (probably unknown in other parts of India, it is Mosambi and Orange Juices mixed together) and that too without sugar from a roadside vendor and it was far more satisfying.
I am planning to have natural juices frequently from now on. As it is i almost never have aerated drinks.
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+1. Left having aerated drinks and these so called fruit juices almost a year back. Started having fresh juice instead. Super easy to make with a juicer. Plus the pulp is used for making rotis/paranthas. :)

6pack said:
carbonated drinks are a mix of carbon dioxide and flavoured sugar water. carbon dioxide is bad for health any way you look at it. its a poisonous gas, else the body wont be burping it out in minutes after you drink it.
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Errr.. nopes. CO2 does serve a number of physiological functions in the body (low CO2 levels cause vasocontriction, hypoxia (mainly due to hyperventilation), possible free radical generation etc.), but these functions are dependent on your normal breathing and not oral CO2 consumption (i.e. by soda.Coke etc). So in essence, CO2 per se serves many functions in the body but the oral variety serves no purpose apart from causing caries and osteoporosis and diabetes and hypertension.
 
alekhkhanna said:
+1. Left having aerated drinks and these so called fruit juices almost a year back. Started having fresh juice instead. Super easy to make with a juicer. Plus the pulp is used for making rotis/paranthas. :)


Errr.. nopes. CO2 does serve a number of physiological functions in the body (low CO2 levels cause vasocontriction, hypoxia (mainly due to hyperventilation), possible free radical generation etc.), but these functions are dependent on your normal breathing and not oral CO2 consumption (i.e. by soda.Coke etc). So in essence, CO2 per se serves many functions in the body but the oral variety serves no purpose apart from causing caries and osteoporosis and diabetes and hypertension.
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Hey doc, I understand that most doctors would ask you to avoid alcohol, smokes, soft drinks etc. and they would be right in doing so because their profession demands that they keep the health of their patients above all else but, where does personal choice come into the equation ?

If a guy tells you that he'd rather live for 60 years as an alcoholic than 80 years as a non-alcoholic, would you discourage that ? Just a question that came to mind.
 
OinkBoink said:
Hey doc, I understand that most doctors would ask you to avoid alcohol, smokes, soft drinks etc. and they would be right in doing so because their profession demands that they keep the health of their patients above all else but, where does personal choice come into the equation ?

If a guy tells you that he'd rather live for 60 years as an alcoholic than 80 years as a non-alcoholic, would you discourage that ? Just a question that came to mind.
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Drinking alcohol is not the same as being an alcoholic. Moderation is the key here, but many don't understand that, hence complete abstinence is suggested to everyone.
 
OinkBoink said:
Hey doc, I understand that most doctors would ask you to avoid alcohol, smokes, soft drinks etc. and they would be right in doing so because their profession demands that they keep the health of their patients above all else but, where does personal choice come into the equation ?

If a guy tells you that he'd rather live for 60 years as an alcoholic than 80 years as a non-alcoholic, would you discourage that ? Just a question that came to mind.
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Personal choice is the best choice. Just lay down all options on the table and let the guy decide. Problem is most of us act all cool in our formative years and mid 20s, saying "Kisko 80 saal tak jeena hai ? Kya pata sadak chalte huey accident ho jae. Life main kuch guarantee nahin hai" etc etc, justifying smoking and alcohol addiction. But then when the real problem looks them in the face (I'm not talking about diabetes and hypertension, rather about Lung/Oral Cancer, Hepatic Cirrhosis etc), they expect the doctor to give a jadui-medicine so that all the ill effects to their actions in the past 20 years would vanish in a week. And these things don't happen at 60 or 70. Increasingly all these problems are being seen with ages as low as 25 years.
Of course at the end of the day it's the person's choice how to lead his/her life, but one should be ready to bear the grunt for it later in his/her life. Don't blame others, don't blame your job, don't blame your wife/kids. It's you who acted, it you who will reap.
 
blkrb0t said:
Drinking alcohol is not the same as being an alcoholic. Moderation is the key here, but many don't understand that, hence complete abstinence is suggested to everyone
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I get that. But you get my point. Some doctors would ask you to avoid alcohol altogether. My question is basically this. If a person, knowingly, wants to do something that has potential health risks for his own personal reasons (maybe to seek pleasure for instance), who is anyone to stop them from doing it as long as what they're doing isn't harming others around them ?

Of course, we may get into the discussion of how spoiling your health makes life difficult for others around you etc. Let's assume this hypothetical guy has a lot of cash and can spend lots of money on medical expenses and labour.

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alekhkhanna said:
Of course at the end of the day it's the person's choice how to lead his/her life, but one should be ready to bear the grunt for it later in his/her life. Don't blame others, don't blame your job, don't blame your wife/kids. It's you who acted, it you who will reap.
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Yes, I agree with this.
 
blkrb0t said:
Drinking alcohol is not the same as being an alcoholic. Moderation is the key here, but many don't understand that, hence complete abstinence is suggested to everyone.
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I doubt anybody talks about complete abstinence nowadays. For me, a couple of 30 ml pegs are enough in 2-3 hours. Plus I hardly drink once a month. Just socially. Not that I don't enjoy it, but I don't feel like getting addicted to it.
 
@alekhkhanna

Also, one more thing I would like to ask you is, if a person has an illness causing severe disability in any sense (be it physically, mentally, socially etc.) and when the best therapy does not give satisfactory results, this person would tend to be become withdrawn and suicidal. Now medically, since the best treatment has not worked ( it may have worked partially but not satisfactorily enough for the patient), how is it ethical for us (or doctors) to ask this person to go on living in pain (of any sort, be it physical or mental) ? This might sound a little outrageous but wouldn't giving this person 'the gift of death' be a merciful act ? Current medical ethics don't allow for this.

I once saw my relative's 100+ year old (or something like that) grandma begging a doctor to give her some pills which would kill her. She was completely blind, extremely frail, could hardly enjoy life and constantly needed the support of others because she could hardly eat by herself or do anything meaningful. But she was alive. Like a shell. It was really sad to see.

This deviates from the thread a bit but I don't want to start another thread just for this. It might even get deleted.
 
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@OinkBoink: Personally, I am all in for Euthanasia. It's a great concept and every person should have a choice to carry on or end their life. But in a country like India, if a law legalizing Euthanasia is passed, god knows how many will unwilling people will be killed in the name of mercy for their land and money !
 
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