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Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by seer »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #38
dwaite wrote: post #13

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I suspect this is to try to quantitatively match the stimulant effect of caffiene plus sugar/HFCS in the sweetened alternatives.

Am I the only one that experiences sugar as a depressant? Eating high glycemic index foods makes me lethargic and sleepy. I've never experienced a "sugar high". I also don't have diabetes as my blood sugar level is within norm during routine physicals.

Maybe you just get the insulin spike that deals with excess sugar in the blood much sooner which I think is what is supposed to make you sleepy. Probably should consider yourself lucky :)

Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by freedomben »

scoopertrooper wrote: post #27
dwaite wrote: post #13

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I suspect this is to try to quantitatively match the stimulant effect of caffiene plus sugar/HFCS in the sweetened alternatives.

Alternately, the artificial sweetener might end up being too sweet, so they balance it out with some more bitter caffine.

I drink a lot of caffeine free diet coke now that I've developed a caffeine intolerance, and I think you're right. It doesn't have the bite without the caffeine and tastes kind of flat.

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Post by yababa_y »

gowld wrote: post #36
scoopertrooper wrote: post #27

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Alternately, the artificial sweetener might end up being too sweet, so they balance it out with some more bitter caffine.

Why would they do that instead of putting in less sweetener?

balancing out the acid maybe?

Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by maleno »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #39
echelon wrote: post #11

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What a domain name. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that.

Let me check my spam folder - yeah, there are tons of phishing attempts with unusual combinations of hyphens, no hyphens, and company/inc/group that have similar amounts of legitimacy. A domain of coca-colacompany.com doesn't seem that unusual. Oh, you mean the #:~:text= URI fragment - yeah, that is weird! I wonder what the function of the :~ emoji is in their CMS. I know from painful experience that XML names can be…

It's not a CMS thing, it's a Chrome thing.[1] It highlights the text in the URI fragment when you click through to the page, and also auto-scrolls to that text.

[1] https://web.dev/text-fragments/

Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by atombender »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #39
echelon wrote: post #11

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What a domain name. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that.

Let me check my spam folder - yeah, there are tons of phishing attempts with unusual combinations of hyphens, no hyphens, and company/inc/group that have similar amounts of legitimacy. A domain of coca-colacompany.com doesn't seem that unusual. Oh, you mean the #:~:text= URI fragment - yeah, that is weird! I wonder what the function of the :~ emoji is in their CMS. I know from painful experience that XML names can be…

It's called a text fragment, and it's a draft standard: https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/.

Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by javierga »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #38
dwaite wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect this is to try to quantitatively match the stimulant effect of caffiene plus sugar/HFCS in the sweetened alternatives.

Am I the only one that experiences sugar as a depressant? Eating high glycemic index foods makes me lethargic and sleepy. I've never experienced a "sugar high". I also don't have diabetes as my blood sugar level is within norm during routine physicals.

Yes, this happens to me too. I can get maybe a maximum 15-20 minutes of increased cognitive performance after ingestion. Once that is over I become lethargic and afterwards a bit irate since my concentration dips.

It bothers me that people like Warren Buffet can go along their day ingesting copious amounts of coke normal and sweets and still be a functional productive human being.

Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by thoughtpalette »

kibwen wrote: post #29
bombcar wrote: post #9

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The absolute best pipeline is to go Coke -> Diet Coke -> Coke Zero -> Caffeine Free Coke Zero -> colored water -> water, but there is no pipeline at all. It was cancelled, and people should be aware of what they drink and drink mindfully and responsibly.

Sprite Zero has zero caffeine, if you must have a sugar and caffeine-free Coke product.

Sprite doesn't include any caffeine [0] in the regular version, but there's a massive amount of sugar as per usual with soda.

[0]: https://www.sprite.com/products/sprite

Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by MrPoush »

jaywalk wrote: post #30
echelon wrote: post #11

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What a domain name. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that.

Not a lot of companies have a dash in their name like that.

It can be very helpful when providing clarity about where a word break should be. There's a reason that Experts Exchange uses http://www.experts-exchange.com rather than the hyphen-free version.
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