Never too old to learn....more about "diet" drinks.

[HUGH]

It seems that diet drinks with artificial sweeteners can successfully fool the taste buds but not the brain. For example, after drinking an original Coke with syrup the brain will detect sugar in the bloodstream and inform the body that it's not so hungry, thereby curbing the appetite.

Artificial sweeteners don't do this and the consumer will be just as hungry afterwards. Bearing in mind that when energy is required, the first things to be burnt up are the sugars, if you indulge in something hot and greasy (steady now!) after your diet drink, will you not put on more weight than if you've had the original syrup sweetend drink because fat is only used after carbohydrates to provide energy?

[N5RLR]

Can't fool my taste buds. If it isn't sugar, they know it. :stirpot:

[NQ6U]

Can't fool my taste buds. If it isn't sugar, they know it. :stirpot:

Same here. The XYL uses Splenda and claims it tastes just like sugar but it don't fool me. Crap, is more like it.

[KG4CGC]

:Chili Cheeseburger plate half and half, large Diet Coke.
:Diet Coke?
:Yeah. It cleanses the pallet.
:Why bother?

[kc7jty]

I've known a few people who drank a min of 12 to max of 24 12 ounce cans of diet Pepsi a day! Every one of them (male and female) had a gut like beriberi.

[W4RLR]

I've known a few people who drank a min of 12 to max of 24 12 ounce cans of diet Pepsi a day!. Every one of them (male and female) had a gut like beriberi.

I found it extremely difficult to do a morning radio show without downing a six pack of Coca-Cola during an air shift. It made staying under my weight limit that much tougher. But drinking the swill that passed for coffee at the station was not an option.

[KJ3N]

It seems that diet drinks with artificial sweeteners can successfully fool the taste buds but not the brain.

Sorry, not fooling my taste buds.

[n0iu]

I found it extremely difficult to do a morning radio show without downing a six pack of Coca-Cola during an air shift. It made staying under my weight limit that much tougher. But drinking the swill that passed for coffee at the station was not an option.

Your radio station has a weight limit for their on-air personalities? I thought one of the great things about radio was that you didn't have to be "pretty" like on TV, you just had to have a good set of pipes!

[WØTKX]

Used to be, I could not wake up without a "DP" and a cigarette. Usually, a Marlboro Menthol.



For years, I used to drink 12-24 cans/bottles of Dr. Pepper a day. Can't stand the fake stuff.

Rarely touch sodie-pop anymore, and when I do... it's usually a root beer float.

[n0iu]

Rarely touch sodie-pop anymore, and when I do... it's usually a root beer float.

Reminds me of that old joke.... "How do you make a dead cat float?"