I was curious about something because my cousin said Diet Drinks are Poisonous. I was looking at all kinds of websites, and I found one that gives cool information. most of you probably already know some of this stuff, but a lot of it is most cool and Wow! I hope you get a kick out of it too. Who Invented Diet Soda?
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When I was growing up in the '60’s, I remember Tab, the diet soda. Not being diabetic at the time, I objected to the taste of sacharin and preferred the taste of the the sugar-infused sodas. Now I rarely drink carbonated beverages but I will drink a soda water with a twist of a real lime wedge from time to time. I sometimes wonder what my two 16-ounce bottles per day of Coca-Cola during my teenage years did to my poor pancreas. I was diagnosed with T1D at the age of 30.
Oooh! I know the answer to what those sodas did to your pancreas!
Nothing.
Type 1 is an autoimmune disease.
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Actually it is not clear that excessive consumption of sodas has anything to do with any kind of diabetes. It does make sense that when your diabetes emerges that you can overconsume sodas, quickly drive your blood sugar out of control and hasten the progressions of you diabetes. But again, that likely applies to any kind of diabetes.
ps. Thanks for the article, I find all kinds of history like this fascinating. I really like authors like Mark Kurlansky.
If Terry had said
I would have said:
Nothing. If over-consumption was what caused Type 2, we’d have almost 300 million more people in the United States with Type 2.
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I remember b4 there was such a thing as diet soda. Tab was about the first one, and it was wonderful to a small diabetic child who never got to drink any soda.
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I remember trying TAB just to see what it was at about 10 years old and almost gagging, lol. 3 years later now T1, I adjusted to the taste pretty quickly and diet coke and pepsi came out soon after.
I forgot to say, When I was diagnosed w/ type 1 (1978), Tab was the ony Sugar Free soda in any store. I had no choice. Tab or nothing, and I always liked my Soda, and in less than a week I was used to it. at first the after taste stood out, Then you never noticed it. Things you never forget…
There was Diet Dr. Pepper in the (I think late) sixties. There’s a commercial about serving Dr. Pepper hot for the holidays. It also mentions that you can use Diet Dr. Pepper. Yuck. Hot Soda Scalds Santa!
I looked it up, Diet Dr. Pepper first came out in 1962.
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Diet DP was actually pretty good. I remember drinking it when I was pre-teen and that was way before I was D.
Before that, there was only Diet Rite. Later, Fresca & Tab. For some reason, every time I see Fresca I think of Tarzan with Ron Ely!
I’ve heard they’re poisonous because of the aspertame. I’ve consumed countless diet cokes in my life time. When I was a teenager, I used to drink 5 or 6 of them a day! The older I get the more health concious I get, but to a point. I still have one now and then.
There is definitely a link between sugary sodas and diabetes type 2 given the indisputable link between widespread overconsumption of those sodas, particularly among young people, and the obesity epidemic in America which has fueled the current type 2 diabetes epidemic.
There is an association. But that doesn’t mean there is a causal relationship. It is just as likely that diabetes causes people to have more sugar cravings and drink more soda?
You took the words right out of my fingertips! I was about to type one of my favorite sentences: “Correlation does not equal causation.”, followed by one of David’s favorites: “The plural of ‘anecdote’ is not ‘evidence.’” (Hope I got that right, David!)
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