No more aspartame in Diet Pepsi

Very few in both instances. You have some dad guts, I suppose, but most people watch it. My one good friend at work put it this way: The partners have three things in their lives: Family, fitness, and practicing law.

 

That's what I figured. As education and wealth increases, so does health/fitness.

 

The taste, the headaches caused by the artificial sweetener ... just to name two.

 

So I was curious about this because I heard this - in fact I think I first heard about this it on this site in one of the weigh loss or exercise threads.
Don't know exactly how your Dr was saying this happened, but from what I could find:
Hartel et al (1993) Found that there was no difference in insulin production when consuming water or consuming water with artificial sweeteners, including aspartame. (There was, not surprisingly, from sugar water).
Teff et al (1995) Found the same general thing using oral sugar/artificial sweeter pills - sugar causes insulin production but artificial sweeteners don't.
Abdallah et al. (1997) Reproduced these findings.
Carlson and Shah (1989) Did some study I didn't 100% understand. It seemed to be looking at hormone production related to insulin production. It basically said that it didn't have an impact on blood-sugar levels because it didn't cause an increase in activity of insulin counterregulatory hormones.

There were a lot of studies with this with diabetics since obviously it could be life-threatening for them if it screwed with their endocrine system.
Stern et al (1976) Found no blood-sugar differences between fasting and a placebo or with aspartame.
Taur et al (1984) and Okuno et al (1986) showed no change in glucose tolerance of type 2 diabetics after courses (lengths varied between studies daily to 18 weeks) of aspartame.
There's some more, but the common theme is "it doesn't screw with the blood glucose levels of diabetics."

Now it's possible your Dr is thinking of it happening through a mechanism I haven't found yet. But as far as I can tell, it do anything strange like cause your body to produce insulin when it's not actually getting sugar.

 

Well, I do feel better as I go to the fridge for the fifth Diet Coke of the night ...

 

My mom would always slap a loaf of white bread on the table while I ate. Eating four to five slices of Wonder with my meatloaf was the shit, but it was terrible for me in the long run.

 

Just to keep this thread rolling along...

At what point do you allow your kids to drink any type of soda?

 

Besides being young and in their prime, does the very nature of college help with that? I lived on campus and was walking at least two miles a day just to get back and forth to class. That's not counting anything else I did, like play basketball with friends or take the occasional walk across campus (about a half-mile each way) just to get out of the dorm room for a while.

 

Just about any brand-name diet soda has a decaffeinated version. Caffeine is. not. an. issue.

 

How much did you eat between meals?

 

Probably not much, but I don't really remember. I do remember that back then having popcorn was a big, big treat -- strange what you remember, but I can still see the kettle my parents made it in -- but for me and my kids it's as handy as tap water. Really, though, my trip down memory lane was to echo YF's point re: the vast differences in eating habits between then and now.

 

We always had an "after school snack" when we got home -- and it wasn't fruit.

Ate a lot of ice cream after dinner, often with chocolate syrup. And popcorn -- with tons of butter -- and soda were standard accompaniments to a Friday night movie.