What is your favorite drink?

[Revi]

Freshly pressed orange juice, unbelievably good.

[Ghazan Julio]

Carbonated water, Red Bull or Green tea. Oh and black Coffee.

No red coffee?

[DustWolf]

Monster Energy

[Sazabius]

Calpis (in a can not the concentrate; it just doesn't taste the same).

[DenniZ]

Wodka7up with ice. Especially during hot summerdays.

[Reeve]

Splenda causes cancer.

Prove it.

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[Gheld]

Prove it.

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Maybe not cancer

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1359598

But it apparently effects blood insulin levels; defeating one of the purposes of artificial sweeteners to begin with.

Plus I find I piss a lot more when I drink splenda sweetened beverages to the point that I just avoid it altogether. I'll just take that horrible aftertaste that comes with aspartame.

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Plus I find I piss a lot more when I drink splenda sweetened beverages to the point that I just avoid it altogether. I'll just take that horrible aftertaste that comes with aspartame.

For me, Stevia is generally the way to go if possible. I think it tastes a lot better than (most of) the other sweeteners.

[Reeve]

Maybe not cancer

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1359598

But it apparently effects blood insulin levels; defeating one of the purposes of artificial sweeteners to begin with.

Plus I find I piss a lot more when I drink splenda sweetened beverages to the point that I just avoid it altogether. I'll just take that horrible aftertaste that comes with aspartame.

I always liked both aspartame and Splenda, so I've never understood all the hate. I grew up drinking Diet Coke, though, so there's that. Always annoys me when people try to tell me not to like Diet Coke like they have the inside scoop on my taste buds.

Pisses me off even more that someone feels the need to preach the evils of aspartame at me. Seems to happen at least once a week. I'm an adult who's fully aware that some people think there's badness with aspartame and I can make my own drinking decisions, thank you very much.

Also, is 17 experimental subjects really a scientific sample?

[Zylos]

Root beer. Love me some root beer. IBC is my fav brand.

[Fahrenheit]

A good hoppy American IPA.

Stone Ruination or Victory Dirt Wolf come to mind.

[Deleted]

Just pray that it's actually Stevia you're using and that Walter didn't get there first.

Oh my, took me a moment to get it. That said, I guess I will just have to live with this constantly looming peril.

[Gheld]

I always liked both aspartame and Splenda, so I've never understood all the hate. I grew up drinking Diet Coke, though, so there's that. Always annoys me when people try to tell me not to like Diet Coke like they have the inside scoop on my taste buds.

Pisses me off even more that someone feels the need to preach the evils of aspartame at me. Seems to happen at least once a week. I'm an adult who's fully aware that some people think there's badness with aspartame and I can make my own drinking decisions, thank you very much.

Also, is 17 experimental subjects really a scientific sample?

To form a hypothesis in order to warrant further experimenting yes.

Unfortunately the state of science seems to be: Small hypothetical trial: Media blows results out of proportion, everybody draws conclusion they want to, and the further testing demanded by the results never happens.

But yeah, I like coke zero, I find they've done really well to mask the aspartame aftertaste, although I find after drinking aspartame sweetened beverages for a long enough period of time the aftertaste seems to go away on it's own anyways.

It's kind of like Stevia. I find it has a bit of a weird hotness to it, but you become tolerant to it and it's like, meh, whatever.

I mean in the grand scheme of things, no serious complications for humans have been experimentally proven for:
High Sodium Foods, Saturated Fat, MSG, Any of the zero calorie sweeteners, and a whole host of other things that get demonized in food.

In fact in some cases, like with saturated fat, the science actually says the opposite of what is conventional "health wisdom" (saturated fat increases HDL levels, whereas unsaturated vegetable fats cause elevated LDL levels and consequently arterial inflammation) and yet we are teaching children in school to kill themselves with vegetable oil because the studies got burried under the media shitstorm about the importance of "low fat" diets.

[Pony Soldier]

This amazing stuff right here

[Reeve]

To form a hypothesis in order to warrant further experimenting yes.

Unfortunately the state of science seems to be: Small hypothetical trial: Media blows results out of proportion, everybody draws conclusion they want to, and the further testing demanded by the results never happens.

But yeah, I like coke zero, I find they've done really well to mask the aspartame aftertaste, although I find after drinking aspartame sweetened beverages for a long enough period of time the aftertaste seems to go away on it's own anyways.

It's kind of like Stevia. I find it has a bit of a weird hotness to it, but you become tolerant to it and it's like, meh, whatever.

I mean in the grand scheme of things, no serious complications for humans have been experimentally proven for:
High Sodium Foods, Saturated Fat, MSG, Any of the zero calorie sweeteners, and a whole host of other things that get demonized in food.

In fact in some cases, like with saturated fat, the science actually says the opposite of what is conventional "health wisdom" (saturated fat increases HDL levels, whereas unsaturated vegetable fats cause elevated LDL levels and consequently arterial inflammation) and yet we are teaching children in school to kill themselves with vegetable oil because the studies got burried under the media shitstorm about the importance of "low fat" diets.

Well I generally take all the food health studies with a grain of salt (hur hur) because I don't have the ability to knowledgably read the journal articles and determine their reasonableness, and new published studies seem to come out every few months contradicting each other. It seems to be one of these areas where there is SOME overriding truth, but the majority of what you hear seems to be the good old "what people want to believe" or "what people are afraid of." There's enough conflict in the field that people can reasonably believe whatever they want, beyond the few unquestionable truths (weight loss happens when calories in < calories out).

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This amazing stuff right here
http://static.caloriecount.about.com...erry-68108.jpg

Smoothies are awesome. Especially Strawberry Smoothies. At the moment I easily drink like a litre every day.

[Jpp]

Water when not eating anything or eating something sweet, fat free milk when eating something salty.

[frigoffrick]

Chocolate Milk.

[Reeve]

Smoothies are awesome. Especially Strawberry Smoothies. At the moment I easily drink like a litre every day.

Seems like a lot of calories for something you're drinking rather than eating.

[Deleted]

Seems like a lot of calories for something you're drinking rather than eating.

Priorities. I normally eat less than 900-1000 calories worth of food, so there is plenty of room for smoothies or other such shenanigans.