"Malcom "Mal" Reynolds" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, "Julie Bove"
> >
> wrote:
>
>
>> >> > So water is junk food?
>> >>
>> >> According to him.
>> >
>> > According to me (diet) soda is junk food. You may be too addled
>> > from your
>> > confrontations with reality and think you saw me comment on water.
>>
>> To the body, diet soda isn't much different than water.
>
> There are any number of studies that suggest that the artificial
> sweeteners in
> diet soda *********may***** cause the body to flood the body with the
> desire to actually
> eat/drink food with real calories...hardly the same effect you get
> with water

38 years of diet soft drink has not given me the desire to eat or drink
more.