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iDiow t1_ixum46m wrote
Reply to ELI5 How is drinking a diet soda different than drinking plain water when it comes to your health? by LucyLegBeard
Water is mandatory for a human being to survive, it contains all the minerals your body need. The soda is kind of the same except you add a load of shit your body doesnt need to work properly ( sweetner etc...) several studies have show the impact of such additives on health... just check about aspartame.
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JalenTargaryen t1_ixulzu4 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ELI5 How is drinking a diet soda different than drinking plain water when it comes to your health? by LucyLegBeard
This is ELI5. You seem to be lost, r slash imabigdumbdork is over that way.
CreateANewAccount654 t1_ixulyjc wrote
There's Diabetic KetoAcidosis, which can be fatal. Then there's what the no-carb-diet folks call 'ketosis', when theyve carb-fasted long enough to burn some kinds of fat.
If you still have questions, please ask your doctor. Rando's on Reddit cannot advise you on what is safe.
Drabonn888 t1_ixulsgp wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ELI5 How is drinking a diet soda different than drinking plain water when it comes to your health? by LucyLegBeard
Sounds like you don't know the answer
MichaelArch365 t1_ixulrdg wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ELI5 How is drinking a diet soda different than drinking plain water when it comes to your health? by LucyLegBeard
Why are you looking down on someone for asking a question. This is how we get stupid ppl too proud to right themselves.
tedead t1_ixulasu wrote
Reply to comment by eviade in ELI5: what actually is keto, acidosis and keto-acidosis..? by Educational-Eye5076
In a healthy person, is it because their body naturally regulates the insulin levels in their body?
Kingjoe97034 t1_ixul5mz wrote
Reply to ELI5 How is drinking a diet soda different than drinking plain water when it comes to your health? by LucyLegBeard
The big one is that diet soda has a lot of phosphorus in it. If you drink too much, that can suck calcium out of your bones and not just weaken your bones but also encourage kidney stones.
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tedead t1_ixuk70h wrote
Reply to comment by Educational-Eye5076 in ELI5: what actually is keto, acidosis and keto-acidosis..? by Educational-Eye5076
These are two different conditions, DKA is something T1 and some T2 diabetics can get.
Dragonfly21804 t1_ixuk1h1 wrote
Reply to comment by Educational-Eye5076 in ELI5: what actually is keto, acidosis and keto-acidosis..? by Educational-Eye5076
Are you a diabetic?
tedead t1_ixuk1cx wrote
Reply to comment by Educational-Eye5076 in ELI5: what actually is keto, acidosis and keto-acidosis..? by Educational-Eye5076
No, keto diets are generally safe. I would need someone else to explain the ketosis part. I'm diabetic and even I have thought about doing a keto diet.
I assume this is what you're asking, right? Can I do a keto diet?
eviade t1_ixuk0fb wrote
Reply to comment by Educational-Eye5076 in ELI5: what actually is keto, acidosis and keto-acidosis..? by Educational-Eye5076
Generally it's fine, diabetic ketoacidosis normally happens due to a lack of insulin. Insulin can reduce ketone concentration in the blood/prevent liver from producing too much. In a healthy person ketoacidosis isn't a huge concern (though it is possible)
Educational-Eye5076 OP t1_ixujbfc wrote
Reply to comment by tedead in ELI5: what actually is keto, acidosis and keto-acidosis..? by Educational-Eye5076
So keto ain't a viable option unless untill you're prepared for severe outcomes??
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tedead t1_ixuiw0n wrote
There is ketosis, and then there is ketoacidosis, aka DKA. Acidosis is bad and is caused by the body breaking down fats for a source of energy, which causes ketones to build up in your bloodstream when there isn't enough insulin in your body. Acidosis acidifys your blood.
After an 8 week hospital stay, in which I came out diabetic, I developed ketoacidosis within 20 hours, requiring another 2 day hospital stay. I felt hot, had unquenchable thirst, and generally felt as if I was dying.
DKA is a life-threatening condition that usually always requires a hospital stay.
OmNomDeBonBon t1_ixuie7b wrote
Reply to comment by strangway in ELI5: In recent years, new formats like webp and jfif have started popping up. However, if I rename them to gif or jpeg, they still work. How can it be that renaming the extension doesn't ruin the image format? Why do they even exist then? by Luthemplaer
It died a quick death. Virtually nothing used JPEG-2000 when it was new, and nothing uses it now except to deliver backwards compatibility with 20-year-old images.
JPEG is still the principal image format in 2022, with PNG a distant second, and webp (Google's format) being used for perhaps 0.00000001% of images.
For animated image files, there's a transition happening from GIF to GIFV (GIF Video, aka mp4). There's also APNG (animated PNG) but that's used 0.00000001% of the time.
hellokylegoodbye t1_ixuibzz wrote
Reply to comment by Weird-Brilliant9423 in eli5 why raspberries spoil so much easier than other commercially harvested berries? by newerdewey
I knew they were hollow. I just wasn't aware why they deflate or go mushy so fast and that it was common for those kinds of berries to "turn" quicker.
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Kancelas t1_ixuei0y wrote
Their heads work like a gymbal for cameras completely isolating their heads of any movement when walking.
OmNomDeBonBon t1_ixue9ho wrote
Reply to comment by jackmax9999 in ELI5: In recent years, new formats like webp and jfif have started popping up. However, if I rename them to gif or jpeg, they still work. How can it be that renaming the extension doesn't ruin the image format? Why do they even exist then? by Luthemplaer
Good ol' IrfanView. Haven't used it in probably 15 years.
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MaiLittlePwny t1_ixum7es wrote
Reply to ELI5 How is drinking a diet soda different than drinking plain water when it comes to your health? by LucyLegBeard
Depending on the soda they have additives that have a variety of effects that water doesn't.
Huge influxes of sugar will cause long term health issues, a risk factor for diabetes for example, and weight gain which has it's own issues.
Caffeine has an effect on your brain chemistry, generally your body over a long period of time will "adjust" to the presence of caffeine meaning that you will require caffeine to feel normal. You are addicted to caffeine.
They also have other additives that essentially dehydrate your body. So you will intake water, quench thirst in the short term, but you will be thirstier after 30 mins than you would be with water. Meaning you drink more.
The long and short of it is that Soda's (even diet) are basically designed not to hydrate you, but to make you want to drink more Soda.
For the most part your body doesn't care about where it gets it's water. About 17% of your water intake comes from food. The issue is the other compounds in soda.