Diet Soda

If soda making companies keep trying to make their diet soda taste like their regular soda ("Diet Dr Pepper tastes more like regular Dr Pepper"; Coke Zero; Pepsi One), will we ever reach a point in time where all sodas are diet?

I believe that we will eventually arrive at the conclusion that all sodas will be effectively "diet", even if they are not named as such. Why would anyone fill their bodies with sugar, etc that they do not need when there is an alternative with the same taste readily available? Just doesn't make sense.

my point exactly

seems like we are headed that way,but I think you will always have reg sodas,
many people dont want to try diet brands,because the claim aftertaste,
ans many people will not drink reg because of sugar,
I drink diet,but only rarely,when I get a craving for soda,I stay away because of phosporous(sp?)
it takes away the calcium from the bones.

just like Coke and Pepsi tried doing, i think eventually the sodas won't say "Diet", they'll just BE diet. like Fresca.

lots of people like to drink things with caffeine in it, but how many people drink root beer and don't even think about the fact that it doesn't have caffeine? if i'm looking for something tasty to drink and it's not early morning or late at night, then whether or not a beverage has caffeine or not doesn't matter to me. when i think "Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi" in the golden can, i think caffeine free. when i think Sprite, i think caffeine free. when i think root beer, i don't necessarily think that at all.

i just think that eventually, as Coke and Pepsi and Dr Pepper try to make their diet drinks taste more like the regular stuff, that eventually we'll have a ton of products on the market which are diet but don't necessarily say "diet".

that's what makes me wonder if someday all drinks could be "diet", because if a company can make a diet drink that tastes the same as a regular, i think the only reason why they wouldn't do that would be dependent on the cost of sugar

and now a new coke,
Metabolism-boosting Coke?
http://www.healthnewsreview.org/review/review.php?rid=595

The story above is about a new low calorie soft drink surrounded by
marketing claims that it is a "calorie-burner". The story could have been
more assertive with the company experts instead of allowing them to make
basically unsubstantiated health benefit claims about weight loss. The
piece could have probed further into the claim that the benefit is
"proven", when in fact the company has not published or even released the
design and results of its study of this product. The lack of substantive
comments by people in the nutrition field (with expertise in functional
foods) also limits the usefulness of this piece for consumers. A more
responsible means for handling this would been to give an unaffiliated
expert in the field of weight loss time to provide some context for the
claims put forth by the company spokesperson. (The piece did contain two
statements from experts in nutrition who did not appear to have ties to
the Coca-Cola company, but the content contributed by these individuals
was very brief and far more limiited than the company-produced
information.) Although the conversation was carefully crafted not to make
exaggerated claims about weight loss, the overall sense of the story
would lead a viewer to think that the product would be more helpful in
terms of weight loss than there is any reason (data) to support.
The story mentioned that this product was to be used in combination with
physical activity and a balanced, very moderate diet to 'invigorate'
one's metabolism. This story failed to mention that the same lifestyle
interventions without the inclusion of Enviga would elicit the same
health benefits. This piece also failed to point out that weight re-gain
would be likely when consumption of this bevereage ceased. In addition,
the story did not discuss other approaches to weight loss.

The new Metabolism-Raising coke sounds like a knockoff.

Really, Diet Soda is just as bad as Reg Soda. It's still bad. It really wouldn't matter if it all were the same.

This post has been edited by Magus on Nov 13 2006, 01:34 AM

I agree,just another way of making more money on peoples deperations or vanity

Just because it says "Diet" on the can, people think they can lose weight with it. They don't. In fact, there's little change from drinking it and drinking regular soda.

That and aspartamine is horrid for you, it tricks your brain.

depending on the artificial sweeteners they use, it can do anything from increase the risk of cancer to acting as a neurotoxin.

Even if the normal soda in the future is the equivilant of todays
diet, there will be even more healthy sodas out there with a lackluster taste.

which is why i'm off the shit.

Eh I stopped drinking sodas outright a while ago. so it doesn't really affect me either way they decide to go.

I chose the route of Iced Tea