If You Drink DIET SODAS Then YOU Need to Read This.

sheldonz42

First I will agree Diet Soda is not good for you, it is a chemical, bad for your blood sugar etc.
But...........

It's just like all of the other additive and preservative laden crap in our grocery store isles- bad for you! Aspartame, splenda and all related ingredients are chemicals

FFS - Water (H2O) is a chemical! EVERYTHING is made up of chemicals. True story. Undeniable fact.

LCFulmer

Hold on. Let me go grab my tin foil hat before I consider the millions of things in life that are out to secretly kill me.

That was funny.... don't forget to put the foil on your windows as well.

rml_16

It's just like all of the other additive and preservative laden crap in our grocery store isles- bad for you! Aspartame, splenda and all related ingredients are chemicals, man made ingredients. I don't think you need a formal study to prove it's bad for your body, it's common sense, these are not natural food sources.

Those that think it's not bad for you because the goverment said so are in terrible denial. For those that don't really care if it is bad for you (or rationalize that it's not) and want to drink it anyway, well have at it. Have a diet coke to wash down your baked Lay's and Subway sandwich. Yum, chemically delicious!

I thought I needed a formal study and actual scientific proof but then I read this little gem. It's bad because you say it is. Got it. Thanks!

It is known.

rml_16

Believe it or not folks...all of these symptoms are happening to my husband, who is a diabetic...that's my scientific proof. He Now disabled & constantly drinks diet drinks all day long. We have three large bags of Splenda in our cabinets...that he uses while cooking instead of sugar. I'm gonna ask him to try for one week to give up the diet drinks and Splenda and see what happens...and I'll get back with cha. It wouldn't hurt to try to help my husband improve his health.

It couldn't possibly be the diabetes.

stumblinthrulife

Believe it or not folks...all of these symptoms are happening to my husband, who is a diabetic...that's my scientific proof. He Now disabled & constantly drinks diet drinks all day long. We have three large bags of Splenda in our cabinets...that he uses while cooking instead of sugar. I'm gonna ask him to try for one week to give up the diet drinks and Splenda and see what happens...and I'll get back with cha. It wouldn't hurt to try to help my husband improve his health.

Seriously, though, I'm sorry to hear about your husband. But all that shows is that he personally may have a sensitivity to sweeteners. As has been mentioned previously, many people have sensitivities to perfectly natural things - like peanuts. It doesn't make them inherently bad for everyone.

anaconda469

First I will agree Diet Soda is not good for you, it is a chemical, bad for your blood sugar etc.
But...........

It's just like all of the other additive and preservative laden crap in our grocery store isles- bad for you! Aspartame, splenda and all related ingredients are chemicals

FFS - Water (H2O) is a chemical! EVERYTHING is made up of chemicals. True story. Undeniable fact.

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

stumblinthrulife

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

For teeth? Really healthy.

TR0berts

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

I am trying to figure out if my sarcasm detector is broken again.

nena49659

http://www.wnho.net/soft_drinks_hard_facts.pdf

nena49659

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

For teeth? Really healthy.

Too much flouride is poison. Some believe that too much flouride is added to the water.

nena49659

http://www.wnho.net/soft_drinks_hard_facts.pdf

oops, this is the World Natural Health Organization.

goshnames

*reads this as I lick my plate clean of sugar free pancake syrup*

BrianSharpe

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

It's a communist plot to put all of the dentists out of business..........and don't get me started on chlorination. I miss the good old days when dysentery was a great way to lose a few pounds......

The_Enginerd

Thomasm198

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

char316

100% pure BS!

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Unfortunately I have found snopes.com to be unreliable also. Not sure where they get their information from. I do know I feel better since stopping diet drinks.

sheldonz42

First I will agree Diet Soda is not good for you, it is a chemical, bad for your blood sugar etc.
But...........

It's just like all of the other additive and preservative laden crap in our grocery store isles- bad for you! Aspartame, splenda and all related ingredients are chemicals

FFS - Water (H2O) is a chemical! EVERYTHING is made up of chemicals. True story. Undeniable fact.

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

Electrons, protons, neutrons. Chemistry. The stuff of life, the universe, everything. Please, for the sake of all that is holy, tell me you are kidding. You know, because water is, was, and will always be a chemical (H20)...

neandermagnon

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

I am trying to figure out if my sarcasm detector is broken again.

and me

water is, and always has been, a chemical. It's a chemical now, it was a chemical in the palaeolithic era, it was a chemical before there was any life on earth, it is a chemical when it's completely pure and it's a chemical when it has other chemicals dissolved in it, which happens when it occurs naturally as a liquid, they come from the rocks and stuff that come into contact with water.

it's chemical name is hydrogen monoxide (sometimes it is known by other names, but they all basically mean one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms joined together), and it's chemical formula is H2O (the 2 is supposed to be small and at the bottom but my keyboard won't let me type it like this.)

Unfortunately the word "chemical" is misunderstood to mean something that's harmful or unnatural.... fact is that everything's made of chemicals. Vitamins and minerals are chemicals. We're all made of chemicals, we eat, drink and breathe chemicals. Some chemicals are extremely harmful, even totally natural ones. But just because something is a chemical, doesn't mean it's harmful.

stumblinthrulife

http://www.wnho.net/soft_drinks_hard_facts.pdf

oops, this is the World Natural Health Organization.

Oops, I think you may be confusing them with the World Health Organization - which is a real respectable source.

stumblinthrulife

Too much flouride is poison. Some believe that too much flouride is added to the water.

Yes, too much flouride is poison. But then again, too much water is also poison. Too much Vitamin A is poison. A lot of things that are essential to life are poison in sufficient quantities.

And just because some believe it, doesn't make it true. Some believe that Elvis was taken by aliens, the moon landing was faked, and the Illuminati run the world. I don't listen to them either.

RGv2

MattUFCP90X

Just know the FDA doesn't care about our health. There are so many things made for us to eat that are horrible, and now even what they are doing to our produce is upsetting and unsafe. Look at how many fat people you encounter everyday. You can thank our government for it. Once we wake up and refuse to consume the crap hopefully these companies will go bankrupt or change the way they make food.

RGv2

Just know the FDA doesn't care about our health. There are so many things made for us to eat that are horrible, and now even what they are doing to our produce is upsetting and unsafe. Look at how many fat people you encounter everyday. You can thank our government for it. Once we wake up and refuse to consume the crap hopefully these companies will go bankrupt or change the way they make food.

Just refuse it then...

stumblinthrulife

Just know the FDA doesn't care about our health. There are so many things made for us to eat that are horrible, and now even what they are doing to our produce is upsetting and unsafe. Look at how many fat people you encounter everyday. You can thank our government for it. Once we wake up and refuse to consume the crap hopefully these companies will go bankrupt or change the way they make food.

Please, haven't we gone past blaming the gub'ment for the fact that people are fat?

Thomasm198

Just know the FDA doesn't care about our health. There are so many things made for us to eat that are horrible, and now even what they are doing to our produce is upsetting and unsafe. Look at how many fat people you encounter everyday. You can thank our government for it. Once we wake up and refuse to consume the crap hopefully these companies will go bankrupt or change the way they make food.

nena49659

sar·casm noun \ˈsär-ˌka-zəm\
CloseStyle: MLA APA ChicagoDefinition of SARCASM
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm


Really getting sick of all of the sarcasm on MFP. If you've got facts, show them. No sarcasm needed.

stumblinthrulife

sar·casm noun \ˈsär-ˌka-zəm\
CloseStyle: MLA APA ChicagoDefinition of SARCASM
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm


Really getting sick of all of the sarcasm on MFP. If you've got facts, show them. No sarcasm needed.

You first. You are the one going against the generally accepted truth, so the burden of proof is on you. There are tens of thousands of studies into the safety of aspartame and fluoridated water. Thus far you've presented only a link to a conspiracy site, which includes -

Global warming hoax
Vaccination/autism scaremongering
GMO scaremongering
Outlandish 'cleansing' claims

Among other rubbish.

My six year old does better science than this.

sheldonz42

Of course water is now a chemical. Look at all of the crap that municipalities put in the drinking water. I am more concerned with drinking city water (I use a Brita filter water pitcher) than worrying about drinking diet soda. Our town is trying to fluoridate the water. Now healthy is that?

I am trying to figure out if my sarcasm detector is broken again.

and me

water is, and always has been, a chemical. It's a chemical now, it was a chemical in the palaeolithic era, it was a chemical before there was any life on earth, it is a chemical when it's completely pure and it's a chemical when it has other chemicals dissolved in it, which happens when it occurs naturally as a liquid, they come from the rocks and stuff that come into contact with water.

it's chemical name is hydrogen monoxide (sometimes it is known by other names, but they all basically mean one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms joined together), and it's chemical formula is H2O (the 2 is supposed to be small and at the bottom but my keyboard won't let me type it like this.)

Unfortunately the word "chemical" is misunderstood to mean something that's harmful or unnatural.... fact is that everything's made of chemicals. Vitamins and minerals are chemicals. We're all made of chemicals, we eat, drink and breathe chemicals. Some chemicals are extremely harmful, even totally natural ones. But just because something is a chemical, doesn't mean it's harmful.

So much truth...

vim_n_vigor

How many of you that said that you had symptoms similar to MS actually know someone who has MS? If you have not been around someone with MS, you can't possibly understand the disease from looking at the symptoms on WebMD.

m76b

Thanks for the posting the article, OP :flowerforyou: