Talk:Diet soda
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"Health risks"
Where it says drinking no soda is healthiest, it makes me wonder why. Diet soda, aside from the caffeine, is pretty much the same as water once it's been drank. So far as I'm aware, caffeine-free diet soda is as healthy and safe as water. Ralphael 21:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Probably more health risks should be added, associated with each non-water ingredient:
- caffiene : addictive, possibly other health risks ( see Caffeine )
- aspartame, other artificial sweetener : unknown health effects ( see Sugar substitute )
- acid : bad for teeth --GodWasAnAlien 03:56, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- "Other health risks." "Unknown health effects." The technical term for these items is "making stuff up." Thanks for making your agenda crystal clear. File these under NNPOV. --Darksasami 19:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
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- I updated the list above. I was just responding to above poster who said "diet soda is as healthy and safe as water", which is quite an amazing thing to say. --GodWasAnAlien 20:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm pulling the following statement:
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- During that era, diet sodas accounted for 1.5 percent of the total soda market's share.
It's unclear what it's talking about, and I don't know how to fix it, since some pedestrian research isn't finding me that 1.5% figure. What era? Surely not between 1958 and 1963, when there was only one diet soda available. If someone can fix this wording, feel free to put it back. TreyHarris 08:17, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
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- no study has ever been made to demonstrate percentages related to which people drink these types of sodas
This seems prima facie unreasonable, considering what big business diet beverages are. No study has ever been made of the consumer demographics of a $30B industry? Do you have any citation to back up this claim? I was tempted to just remove it. TreyHarris 09:30, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
I don't think you can
Dear Trey: Interesting questions. I got the tidbid about the 1.5 percent of the total soda market's share at a website, I dont remember which but it must have been cocacola.com or something maybe, because it is a well known fact that Tab was the first diet soda...now, I asked myself, if Tab was the first diet soda, then why did diet sodas already accoubnted for 1.5 percent of sodas?
I do admittedly make research on other sites because I want to stick to the facts. That tidbit of info seemed somewhat confusing but I included it because that was part of what I found in my research but youre right, I mean mathematically speaking it doesnt make sense that Tab, the first sugar free soda, entered at a time where 1.5 of all sodas were diet. Then, mwe have to look to see what they defined as diet sodas then, maybe they were low carb, low something but I dont know..
As far as the other statement, I , at least havent heard of any study done on consumers. I guess I assumed that companies and study makers figure these products are only drunk by diabetics and fitness conscious people I dont know.
Thanks for noticing and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio suga u up Martin!!
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[edit] Listing based on corporate parent
I think the change to, for instance, put Mountain Dew under Pepsi is wrong. The Coca-Colas go together, obviously, as do the Pepsis. But unless you're already aware that Mountain Dew is a Pepsi product, you're not going to look under Pepsi. And this list is already larger than will fit in a normal-sized screen, so scanning the entire list isn't easy. The alternative is to break the list out into a "list of" article, with cross-references, so that Mountain Dew can go both under 'M' and under 'P'. Dale Arnett, would you mind reverting your change, or do you disagree with my reasoning here? --TreyHarris 21:20, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- There's probably a way to organize them to make them easier to read and/or cross reference them. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 02:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Diet vs Lite
Would it be necessary to mention that in America sodas cannot be listed as "lite" due to "lite" being the beer equivalent of "diet"?
[edit] Diet Soft Drink
This page should be moved to Diet Soft Drink, with Diet Soda as a redirect. This is a more generic name, and is more dialect-neutral. --68.0.212.218 18:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC) Joe
- I agree, especially now that the page has been marked as US-centric. Does anyone object to the page move? Confiteordeo 19:55, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List vs Table?
Would it make sense to convert the list of drinks per sweetener to a table of drinks that use each sweetener?
It would be similar to this:
| sweetener 1 | sweetener 2 | sweetener 3 | sweetener 4 | |
| drink 1 | yes | no | no | no |
| drink 2 | yes | no | no | no |
| drink 3 | yes | no | no | no |
... and so on and so forth. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dimwell (talk • contribs) 04:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Stevia
Are there any sodas made with stevia Puddytang 18:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
