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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnW" data-source="post: 1972199" data-attributes="member: 211188">Many of the people who order the diet coke with their Big Mac and Fries are doing so not because of calories but because of glucose levels.   Regular soda is basically sugar water and hence will raise blood glucose levels very rapidly causing hyper-glycemia especially with people who are diabetic.   The Big Mac and Fries are complex carbohydrates which gets converted to glucose over a period of time and hence is less dangerous to these people.The age old snicker about people ordering diet soda with their fast food meal is purely out of ignorance and is not a fair commentary on those who must order diet soda because of their health.</blockquote>