IS it ok to drink SODA?!
- Thread starter fuckrat
- Start date
Koolaid, soda and beer to hydrate? I'd say this is a troll halfwit! He has another thread troll-ish thread. Soda isn't bad in its own in moderation but its basically just empty calories and I try to minimize my HFCS consumption due to this fact. It's great for quick instant energy like when marathoners take flat soda during a race but I usually drink only water myself. Sucralose and aspartame aren't bad for you either. The toxic levels of those sweeteners are somewhere in the 10+g/lb range (ive got to recheck my numbers to be sure) and I seriously doubt you get anywhere near that half.
Last edited:
Sugar affects your gains by increasing calories in your diet which you have to account for in one way or another
Table sugar is just plain old sucrose, a disaccharide, which hydrolyses in the body into fructose and glucose aka carbs. Sucrose is a carbohydrate so yes it either gets burned as energy or turns into fat. Did you think sugar was special in this regards and unlike other carb sources?
cbman2184
New member
Thanks doc, you pretty much summed it up for me. Empty calories are no bueno imo.
If you drink diet it's no calories
. I stopped drinking soda regularly years ago but have some from time to time. When I do drink it now I notice it bloats me and fills me up fast but I get hungry again later. Not good for me when im bulking as I need a decent amount of calories to bulk. With all the help you give this forum and me in particular its only fair I return the favor occasionally lmao. But if you enjoy soda by all means don't cut it out completely, just enjoy it in moderation and make sure you take it into account when you figure out your macros. Same goes for any orher liquid calories or food.well.. Im trying to figure out why my knees got jacked up a few years back. people were telling me to stop drinking soda cause it was bad for me as a person that worked out. I had protein and vitamins and all sorts of other pointless supplements. I had to uses stairs almost all day at least 20 flights a day average. My knees started to hurt about 5 months into it. Before that I could squat without problem. Near the end I was unable to squat without having major issues like loose feeling, weak, and painful knee joints. So i stopped squatting and quit the job. I ended up stopping training all together. I have kept on eating the same way. Candy, soda, ect. I was gaining weight so I started training harder and started igf1 with it. Then did a test cycle. Then I decided to go with hgh eod as a way to help strengthen joints. I train light now and have recently started to try more intense work outs. I actually squatted again without any knee problems that day. I do have a light weakness and loosness to this day. It has been about a week since I squatted.
The reason i ask this question is because Im concerned that there is some hidden effect that sugar and candy have to cause deterioration of knee joints. I cant figure out what was happening to cause the knee problems.
I was going to the gym everyday.
So far the only explanation I have that would explain the joint problems would be a chemical caused it like winstrol but I wasn't on any steroids.
The reason i ask this question is because Im concerned that there is some hidden effect that sugar and candy have to cause deterioration of knee joints. I cant figure out what was happening to cause the knee problems.
I was going to the gym everyday.
So far the only explanation I have that would explain the joint problems would be a chemical caused it like winstrol but I wasn't on any steroids.
Last edited:
The refined sugars are going to directly hurt your teeth, but I've never heard of sugar consumption directly causing joint problems. Indirectly sure, increased body fat and all that. You could just have a predisposition to joint troubles or you could have been hard on your joints over your life up to this point. BTW, beer is mostly water, but that 5% or so of alcohol makes it have the opposite effect of hydration, not to mention the empty calories. I like the occasional Monster, but I try to stay with cold water and I change up with tea every now and again. Zero calories, tastes pretty good. Diet sodas have no sugar, but there have been studies that indicate that the artificial sweeteners make people tend to opt for nutrient poor artificially sweetened foods that taste better and aren't inherently bad, but not good either, along with disassociation of sweetness with caloric intake
Artificial sweeteners: sugar-free, but at what cost? - Harvard Health Publications
Artificial sweeteners: sugar-free, but at what cost? - Harvard Health Publications
Similar threads
