Podcasts about diet cola

Which Diet Cola is best? Sodas with alternative sugars are becoming more popular all the time as it presents a way for the consumer to drink their beloved sodas, while still feeling good about themselves because they just consumed a  calorie free beverage.  Although health benefits are much more complicated than a calorie counter, here at Taste Test Dummies we fully endorse the "pretend this is good for me" methodology.  With this wishful thinking in mind, we will try out 4 Diet Colas this week.  The contenders are Diet Coke, Diet Faygo, Diet Pepsi, and Diet Rite.  Please like and subscribe and if you have any suggestions, let us know by tweeting us @tastetestdummies or email us at nickandjohnpodcast@gmail.com.      SPOILER!  Below is a list of which soda corresponds to which numbered cup it was in: 1. Pepsi 2. Faygo 3. Diet Rite 4. Coke

Federal retirees were feverishly hitting the refresh button on their internet browsers the morning of Oct. 12 as they awaited the Social Security Administration's announcement of next year's cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). The anticipation to see the percentage for that 2024 COLA was no surprise. The annual adjustment, intended to keep retirees on pace with inflation, means gradually growing numbers for federal retirement annuities and Social Security checks. But some federal retirees will not see that full percentage adjustment added to their annuities in January. When the federal government switched from the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) back in the 1980s, Congress opted to change the COLA calculation for FERS annuitants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest-starring Dr. Jennifer Swartz-Levine! Power Girl and Diet Cola? Say what? Find out what THAT’S all about,… The post Episode 224 appeared first on The Batman Universe.

This week Tom & Zeus welcome brothers Paul Janik, Jr., John Janik & their friend, Chris "The Wallet" Haick from Gene Simmons Moneybag Sodas. Gene Simmons Moneybag Sodas is Gene's venture in the soda market. The sodas are made with pure cane sugar, natural flavorings and natural colorings. There are five flavors, cola, diet cola, ginger ale, cream and root beer. Gene teamed with life long KISS fans, the Janik brothers and their friend "The Wallet" to create "Soda Royalty" for people with "Expensive Taste!" The guys have a fun discussion about their product, how they teamed up with Gene and of course, their own individual KISStory! They share their personal stories about Gene Simmons, the business man and what he's really like when he's not on stage and in front of a camera. Another unique interview done SIOL style with some great guys with a great product! "Oh Yeah!" For all things Shout It Out Loudcast check out our amazing website by clicking below: www.ShoutItOutLoudcast.com Interested in more Shout It Out Loudcast content?  Care to help us out?  Come join us on Patreon by clicking below: SIOL Patreon Shop At Our Amazon Store by clicking below: Shout It Out Loudcast Amazon Store Please go to Klick Tee Shop for all your Shout It Out Loudcast Merchandise by clicking below:SIOL Merchandise at Klick Tee Shop Please Email us comments or suggestions by clicking below:ShoutItOutLoudcast@Gmail.com Please subscribe to us and give us a 5 Star (Child) review on the following places below:iTunesPodchaserStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify  Please follow us and like our social media pages clicking below:TwitterFacebook PageFacebook Group Page Shout It Out LoudcastersInstagramYouTube Please check out our sponsor FusionTech Data & Electric for all your data and electrical needs by clicking below:FusionTech Data And Electric Proud Member of the Pantheon Podcast click below to see the website:Pantheon Podcast Network

 In this edition of the Wild World of Pepsi, we look at Pepsi Light (With Lemon)Released: 1975Discontinued: 1988

This week we take a deep dive in to the Public Library.  The library was the Internet of our youth.  A window to the world, where we could get lost in the stacks, and the best part it was/is free to all.  Like a bicycle it provided liberation and a chance to form our own opinions and views of the world around us.  And if you were like me a chance to practice your spycraft!   We wax nostalgic on this show, it is what it is about of course, and I hope you had a great library experience, some of us are in love with the library for very unique reasons, it was my window into a world that was yet to be explored a world that existed outside of our little valley.  Like television, but it was on demand, I didn't have to wait for a documentary to show up on television, I could find what I wanted to learn today.  There at the library my love of learning was sparked, and the flame still burns today. So which Halloween Candy was you favorite, no cheating, it has to be something you would cherish in your pillowcase full of goodies, what was the one candy that you would do your best to hoard away but the truth was that it was gone by November 1s, only to be left with Sweet Tarts and gum.   Post a note on Facebook, or send an email and let me know. Facebook Page fb.me/frequency13podcast Twitter @frequency13pod Blog - https://www.Frequency13.com Email: Freq13fm@gmail.com

Back in Episode 41 we talked about inflation basics. Today we'll talk some more about what inflation is, who has the mission to control inflation, what we can expect, and some ideas on how it may affect you.Put simply, inflation makes things you buy cost more. Another way to look at it, is that $1 after inflation is worth less, it has less buying power. Inflation is usually quoted as a percent per year. The Federal Reserve, often called "the Fed," is the central bank of the United States. A key mission of the Fed is to foster both maximum employment in the US and maintain price stability which interprets as keeping inflation growing at about 2% a year over the long-term. This can be a tricky balancing act. There are a lot of things that affect employment and inflation.  Unemployment is still well above pre-COVID levels. The Fed Chairman has said that he is focused on getting back to full employment and that he won't be swayed by temporary rises in inflation. And the Fed announced last August that it would tolerate higher inflation than its 2% target rate for a modest period of time since inflation has been too low for the last 10 to 15 years. Higher inflation isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you have debt l you'll be paying your loan back with dollars that are worth less than they are now. But for retirees living on a fixed income, each dollar buys less than it used to.  Americans that were able to work through the pandemic generally spent less and saved, and now have more money to spend. There is a pent up demand for more goods and services.   If you have a home mortgage,  see if refinancing while interest rates are still low makes sense for you. And if, if inflation is rising, don't be in a hurry to pay that low interest rate loan off faster than necessary. Remember, you will be paying the loan back in the future with dollars that will be worth less because of inflation.Stay the course with your long term investment goals. Stay diversified. Now is not the time to bet the farm and go all in on gold, or any other one “inflation proof” “sure thing.” Gold and real estate do tend to hold up well to inflation, but they are not fool proof. Gold and other commodities have huge price swings, they are very volatile. Real estate tends to beat inflation over the long haul, but with record low mortgage rates the real estate market is hot and prices are already high right now. When your investments are diversified, for example with US and foreign stocks and bonds, perhaps real estate, and maybe even a gold or oil mutual fund you can rebalance when one investment category does much better or worse. This is a simple way of buying low and selling high. Generally, wages tend to follow inflation up. If high inflation starts putting the pinch on, it may be a good time to ask for a raise. Or find another career that you enjoy, and that pays well will help you build a good financial future despite inflation. If you're a military retiree or CSRS federal employee you enjoy full cost of living adjustments (COLA) each year . FERS federal employees receive a smaller COLA and you won't receive any COLA on your retirement pay until you reach age 62. Will permanently reduce your pension's buying power. Higher inflation may be a good reason to stay in until 62. FERS employees who retire under the special provisions s can retire younger and begin receiving their COLA immediately.Fortunately, Social Security payments are tied to general inflation and should maintain buying power better. Now for anyone that might have the ever-more-rare private pension or annuity, your pension is likely fixed. High inflation can significantly erode the purchasing power of your pension. And if that pension or annuity makes up a large part of your income in retirement, with higher inflation you may need to find other sources of income or reduce your expenses.

Jay and Mark are joined by Paige (@gaytaylorswift on Twitter) to discuss the sixth chapter on the Deep Blue Sea 3 Blu-ray. In this episode, they talk about cranky sharks, evil v-necks, and gratuitous feet shots. Enjoy!

Inflation makes things you buy cost more. That dollar buys you less than it did before. Of course, if your income grows as fast as inflation, you won’t feel the pinch. Our active duty military and federal employees get yearly adjustments to your pay based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which is one way of measuring inflation. This really helps the buying power of your paycheck keep up with rising prices or inflation. However, most of our other listeners don’t receive automatic boosts to their pay check. Eventually pay often catches up, but you’ll feel that lag where your pay doesn’t buy what it used to.  Inflation can hit retirees especially hard. Traditional pensions from companies are often set when you retire, and remain the same amount the rest of your life. If you enjoy a long life, that set monthly payment will cover less and less of your daily needs as time goes on. When military retire from active duty you continue to get yearly Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA). This is HUGE because most military retire in your 40s and 50s and odds are you will live another 40 years or more. You CSRS federal employees will also get yearly automatic COLA . Unfortunately, FERS employees get what I call diet-COLA. With diet COLA you get a full COLA for inflation up to 2%. When inflation for the year is between 2 and 3%, you COLA is fixed at lower 2%. For years where inflation is 3% or higher you receive the CPI minus 1%. So if inflation is 3.5% your COLA would be 2.5% that year. This isn’t horrible, but you will see a gradual erosion of your retirement pay buying power over time. So what to do? Try to continue to increase you pay faster than inflation while you are still working. If you are covered under a pension, this will help you receive a higher pension when you retire. Higher pay will give you more opportunity to save and invest for retirement.  Also invest your long-term savings in a way that will grow faster than inflation, increasing you future buying power. The G Fund which is an investment option available to military and federal employees in their Thrift Savings Plan, which is like a workplace 401k. The G fund is guaranteed not to lose money and is considered the “safest” place to invest your TSP dollars. Your 401k plan may have a similar short-term government bond option. But calling them safe doesn’t really tell the whole story. You won’t lose money, but it is not guaranteed to keep up with inflation  And the power of those savings may not keep up with  rising costs of what  retirees spend on, especially healthcare and medicine. Taking some calculated risk in hopes of being rewarded with more growth over time can help. That means investing at least some of you retirement funds in  stocks and/or bonds issued by companies. These investments are more risky. Their value swings much higher, and lower  than those “safe” investments. If you have to cash out when the market is down , you can lose money. But saving money in a well-diversified selection of investments can help smooth the roller coaster a little and in the long run has a higher probably of beating inflation and maintaining your buying power down the road. Alright at the beginning of the podcast I mentioned that inflation can be both good and bad. If you have a long term loan, like a mortgage and there s inflation, the dollars you pay the loan back with in later years are worth less than the dollar in you pocket now. Your lender feels the inflation pinch instead of you. This can be a double benefit of refinancing your mortgage when interest rates are very low, like they are right now. Inflation is also very low right now. But with a fixed rate mortgage, the interest rate you pay on the loan will stay that low rate. But inflation is not fixed. If inflation raises during the life of your loan, which could be decades, you will be paying it back with cheaper dollars. 

New week, new face - er - new voice anyway. Dan Felsenheld joins Carmela this week. Listen in and play along! Here are today’s clues: 1. Bill, Bookmark, Diet Cola, Alt. 2. Conduct, Breaker, Hammurabi, Word. 3. Major, Line Segment, Occultation, Overstreet. 4. Dumb, Blue, Church, Curve.

SHOW NOTESDiet soft drinksDiet soft drinks often replace sugar with artificial sweetener, often aspartame. Aspartame is around 200 times sweeter than sugar, so a very small amount is all that is needed to sweeten a product.Aspartame safetyStudies performed in 1980 by Joint Expert Committee of Food and Agricultural Organization + World Health Organization (JECFS) established the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of Aspartame as 40mg per kg of body weight, meaning that the average person can safely consume around 3400mg of aspartame daily without any adverse side effects. Can of Diet Cola is around 180mg = 18 cans per day. Health impact of artificial sweetenersSome observational studies have found high intake of artificial sweeteners and diet soft drink is associated with an increased risk of obesity and metabolic syndromeDiet soft drink may increase appetite by stimulating hunger hormones (Grehlin), altering sweet taste receptors and triggering dopamine responses in the brainPredispose us to want sweet, calorie dense foods and fluids Observational (diet soft drink leads to weight gain) vs experimental studies (swap to diet soft drink leads to weight loss, but beware of funding source and bias)Link to weight gain possibly from above, possibly from pre-existing poor dietary habits. One study of over 300 overweight  participants - drink 710ml diet soft drink or water per day for a year. At the end of the study, the diet soda group had experienced an average weight loss of 6.21 kg compared to 2.5 kg     https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26708700Bias in the scientific literature - some studies (including this one) funded by the artificial sweetener industry have been found to have more favorable outcomes than non-industry studies, so we need to be careful when interpreting results.Observational studies have found a link between high intake diet soft drink and the development of kidney disease ? related to acid load on the kidneys from high phosphorus content.Gut microbiome: Artificial sweeteners alter the gut flora, leading to reduced blood sugar control. This may be one way diet soft drink increases the risk ofT2DM, but more research needed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27090230   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25831243Be careful if you have low bone density - particularly with phosphorus containing drinks, so cola, and those with caffeine. PO4 interferes with Ca absorption. At the end of the day, diet soft drinks offer no nutritional benefit. The ingredients list is empty and doesn’t offer anything positive to our health. If you’re a regular drinker, set yourself a challenge. 21 days to change a habit. Set a target, recruit some friends, get a calendar going to mark off days and set yourself a challenge. Try our sparkling iced teas. Challenge to break the habit so you can enjoy sugar-free soft drink on occasion, but it’s not a must have each day. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-019-0407-zCarbonated water and teethhttps://www.ada.org/enMilk Cows milk full vs skim = change in ratios, no sugar added. Permeates ensure consistency in nutritional composition of milk.  Soy - similar nutritional profile - has to be by food standards law, plant-based, sometimes sweetenedAlmond - low protein, low kJ, low fat, low CHO, low Calcium. Some are sweetened, some calcium fortified.   Rice milk - low is kJ, protein, high in natural sugars. Hypoallergenic. Coconut milk - low in carbs and kilojoules, but is significantly higher in saturated fat than other non-dairy alternatives, lacks protein and calcium (unless fortified).Oat milk - same kJ as cows milk, half protein, low fat, higher CHO, equiv Ca,  beta-glucans (soluble fibre reduce chol reabsorption)Comparison table: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/Pages/Milk-Allergy-Foods-and-Ingredients-to-Avoid.aspxHeart Foundation guidelines https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/news/new-advice-from-the-heart-foundation-on-meat-dairy-and-eggs

Did you check on the children lately? Did that person just flash their lights at you? Let's find out more about these folk tales as we examine the Urban Legend franchise.  We take a back seat view of all 3 films, give our Shit Picks of the Week that go down smoother than Pop Rocks and Diet Cola and Kevin tells us how many kills it takes to keep the lights off. You can find us on Instagram at Its a horror podcast, fuck Twitter, and  Facebook at Its a horror podcast. Intro and outro music by  Duke Sims. You can find him on Instagram doobiedukesims, on Twitter at DoobieDukeSims and on Soundcloud at dukesims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/its-a-horror-podcast/message

Too many people begin their retirement planning too late. If not necessarily catastrophic, it isn’t good. But regardless of your age now, sooner is better than later. Benefits expert Tammy Flanagan is the guest this week. The Your Turn radio show airs at 10 a.m. EDT on 1500 AM in the Washington, D.C. area and www.federalnewsnetwork.com.

Some Stupid Ideas of The Week you have to experience them to get the full force of their idiocy. Yes, dear listeners, I would just LOVE to tell you this was someone else's tale of fizzy woe, but I cannot lie. Listen and (unlike me) manage quite easily to not weep. Also today: Real Success Stories...how to turn failure into success. Oddly enough there is no mention of artifically sweetened soda in this section. Funny that...   The 3 success stories are: #1 Got A Pulse #2 Alfie and The Tantrum Eraser #3 The Post Its Surprise   RESOURCES The Independent article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/fruit-juice-sugar-cancer-health-sugar-obesity-bmj-a8999726.html Episode 21 – fruit juice http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-fasting-yes-or-no/ Episode 15 - http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-artificial-sweeteners-what-you-should-really-worry-about/

On this episode, we'll discuss COLA's and Diet COLA's (cost of living adjustments) and other myths about federal pay raises for workers and retirees. And later, we'll tackle a listener email question about being forced into an early retirement.

After significant declines during the fourth quarter of 2018, TSP funds rebounded during the first three months of this year. Patience has its reward, according to Washington, D.C.-area financial planner Arthur Stein. Many of his clients are retired feds. Several of them are TSP millionaires who did it by long-term investing without reacting to the market’s ups and downs. On this episode, he explains how a "safe" investment could be a higher risk in the long-term. The Your Turn radio show airs at 10 a.m. EST on 1500 AM in the Washington, D.C. area and www.federalnewsnetwork.com.

When they retire after a long career with Uncle Sam many FERS retirees hope for good health, long life and low-inflation. Not necessarily in that order. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D) has introduced a bill that would take FERS retirees off their diet-COLA plan. On this episode of the Your Turn radio show, we hear from NARFE's Staff Vice President for Advocacy Jessica Klement and Director of Legislative and Political Affairs John Hatton about the impact of the diet-COLA.

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Fueled by the desires and tastes of Diet Cola, 3 dudes read some comics together. Later in the show, our book club is FF. Topics included, but were not limited to: (04:40) - AKIRA MADNESS (06:17) - Baltimore Comic-Con, 75% confirmation (09:35) - Retailer Digital Storefronts go HTML5 (12:45) - Comic chatter: The Scarlet Spider #21, Bartman #4, and Feather #1 (23:02) - Lightning Round™: Thor: God of Thunder #12, Astro City 1/2, and Station to Station (27:05) - FF  (44:10) - Letters: AKIRA bashing, Don Garvey attempted, trolling, hopefully Fark Marrington's last email Hosted by:  @dale_a | @slim | @JonesyLovesBeer. Special thanks to YOU for our iTunes reviews and/or ratings so far; they help spread the word about the show. Sponsored by:  The Comic Book Shop. The best place to grab your print or digital comics.