"Malcom "Mal" Reynolds" > wrote in message
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> 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.
>> >>
>> >> How do you know?
>> >
>> > Because I "undereat" and meals/snacks are at regular intervals -
>> > little and often (and perfectly satisfied). Been that way for a long
>> > time. I'd know if I craved more food or more often, wouldn't you?
>>
>> I'm with you. Because of the gastroparesis I rarely feel any hunger.
>> And
>> rarer still want any sweets. The diet soda I drink does not taste sweet.
>> Diet Pepsi tastes sweet to me. So for that reason I dislike it. I never
>> was much of a drinker but when I did drink the drinks had to be extra
>> brut,
>> dry, bitter or sour. Otherwise I didn't like them.
>
> Irregardless of it tasting or not tasting sweet, it contains an artificial
> sweetener. If the sweetness didn't matter you wouldn't drink it...you'd
> drink
> water

No. Water either has no flavor, tastes of minerals or chemicals. I like
flavor and bubbles.