Diet Coke

Liquid741

There's a Snopes page that talks about this being untrue:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

yep....bogus emails like them going around all the time...best to research then believe everything you read...

suzieduh

u guys are so wrong....

aspartame has been proven to kidnap children, impregnate nuns, and cause cancer in all who consume it.

if u have already drank a diet soda or other lite product its too late --- ur children r gone and the cancers will soon eat u.


the thousands of immaculate conception nuns will pray for u.


oh and diet dr. pepper likes to strangle ppl as they sleep...be careful.

I am amazed there are people who don't drink Diet Coke because they might get formalehyde poisioning

lacey_1208

brilliant reply!

engineman312

you can die just from crossing the street.

or worse...you can get pregnant

you can get pregnant from crossing the street??!?!? WTF!!!!!

dleithaus

"Natural" Stevia anyone?

The steviol glycosides are responsible for the sweet taste of the leaves of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni). These compounds range in sweetness from 40 to 300 times sweeter than sucrose.[1] They are heat-stable, pH-stable, and do not ferment.[2] They also do not induce a glycemic response when ingested, making them attractive as natural sweeteners to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets.

Structure
Stevioside is formed by attaching glucose molecules to the steviol structure.

The diterpene known as Steviol is the aglycone of stevia's sweet glycosides, which are constructed by replacing steviol's carboxyl hydrogen atom (at the bottom of the figure) with glucose to form an ester, and replacing the hydroxyl hydrogen (at the top of the figure in the infobox) with combinations of glucose and rhamnose. The two primary compounds, stevioside and rebaudioside A, use only glucose: Stevioside has two linked glucose molecules at the hydroxyl site, whereas rebaudioside A has three, with the middle glucose of the triplet connected to the central steviol structure.

In terms of weight fraction, the four major steviol glycosides found in the stevia plant tissue are:

5–10% stevioside (250–300X of sugar)
2–4% rebaudioside A — most sweet (350–450X of sugar) and least bitter
1–2% rebaudioside C
½–1% dulcoside A.

Rebaudioside B, D, and E may also be present in minute quantities; however, it is suspected that rebaudioside B is a byproduct of the isolation technique.[2] The two majority compounds stevioside and rebaudioside, primarily responsible for the sweet taste of stevia leaves, were first isolated by two French chemists in 1931.[3]

fatcitizen

you can die just from crossing the street.

or worse...you can get pregnant

Not if you deutsche with diet coke afterwards.




BAHAHAHAHA:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


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jbudge1

Everything causes cancer if you inject the rats with 3 times their body weight of a substance. This debate is as old as diet coke itself. If you enjoy it drink. I have only been on this forum for a couple of weeks but I initially started out at 279 and lost over 80 pounds. I drank a ton.......and I mean a ton of diet coke during this process. So nobody could ever convince me it stalls weight loss.

fritomaster

Rats have a special crap in them that we don't have and when they have to much of that if gives them colon cancer, But not to us....

fritomaster

Though if ur gonna drink the nasty version of coke might as well just quit period.

suzieduh

"Natural" Stevia anyone?

The steviol glycosides are responsible for the sweet taste of the leaves of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni). These compounds range in sweetness from 40 to 300 times sweeter than sucrose.[1] They are heat-stable, pH-stable, and do not ferment.[2] They also do not induce a glycemic response when ingested, making them attractive as natural sweeteners to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets.

Structure
Stevioside is formed by attaching glucose molecules to the steviol structure.

The diterpene known as Steviol is the aglycone of stevia's sweet glycosides, which are constructed by replacing steviol's carboxyl hydrogen atom (at the bottom of the figure) with glucose to form an ester, and replacing the hydroxyl hydrogen (at the top of the figure in the infobox) with combinations of glucose and rhamnose. The two primary compounds, stevioside and rebaudioside A, use only glucose: Stevioside has two linked glucose molecules at the hydroxyl site, whereas rebaudioside A has three, with the middle glucose of the triplet connected to the central steviol structure.

In terms of weight fraction, the four major steviol glycosides found in the stevia plant tissue are:

5–10% stevioside (250–300X of sugar)
2–4% rebaudioside A — most sweet (350–450X of sugar) and least bitter
1–2% rebaudioside C
½–1% dulcoside A.

Rebaudioside B, D, and E may also be present in minute quantities; however, it is suspected that rebaudioside B is a byproduct of the isolation technique.[2] The two majority compounds stevioside and rebaudioside, primarily responsible for the sweet taste of stevia leaves, were first isolated by two French chemists in 1931.[3]

i cant concentrate i heart diet coke too much

Sheeshy

My first question would be; do you live in California? Everything causes cancer in California. Other than that everything now days is related to cancer in some way or another. All the artificial stuff we put into our bodies is terrible for us.

:laugh: I'm so glad someone else has noticed this!

pandabear_

Almost everything causes cancer these days.

The Daily Mail (Newspaper UK) are always saying things cause cancer... Including dieting!

Here's a list:

http://hellokinsella.posterous.com/the-daily-mail-list-of-things-that-give-you-c

My favourites of their list of things that cause cancer:

Menstruation - How is that unavoidable?
Children
Being a woman
Being a man
Water
Sun cream - isn't used to avoid cancer?!



Anyway, broccoli is anti-cancerous.

PalmettoparkGuy

All I know is that for me, I recently realized that artificial sweeteners caused intense joint pain which I've been suffering from for years and blamed it on my weight. When I lost the weight I still had the pain. 24-48 hours after giving up all artificial sweeteners, I had no pain after years of suffering.

SiltyPigeon

All I know is that for me, I recently realized that artificial sweeteners caused intense joint pain which I've been suffering from for years and blamed it on my weight. When I lost the weight I still had the pain. 24-48 hours after giving up all artificial sweeteners, I had no pain after years of suffering.

My daughter gets hives and her tongue swells up when she eats pineapple. So, YOU better stop eating pineapple. ALL OF YOU!

Paddy31

DON'T DRINK ANY DIET SODA!!!!

What you are most likely referring to is Aspartame. ASPARTAME=FAT STORING FAKE SUGAR CRAP. On a biochemistry level, the compound aspartame is arranged in such a way that your body doesn't think there are any calories in it, which means it NEVER breaks down. This means that it is stored away in your body and it's nothing but junk.

Stay away from it. It has 92 different side effects and there are actually aspartame support groups.

IT WAS DENIED 8 TIMES BY THE FDA. One would think "oh, well it had to be approved for some good reason." NOPE, people got paid off (yes, it does happen). The guy who "invented" it, is now sitting back and making millions (aspartame is even in gum and most things that say "sugar free").

It turns into FORMALDEHYDE once it reaches above a temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit. AKA....CANCER CAUSING!
If you really care about your health (not necessarily just losing weight), PLEASE DON'T DRINK DIET ANYTHINGS!
let me repeat:

IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH:
******DON'T DRINK DIET COKE, PEPSI, ETC.*********

I'm not sure that anything in your post is scientifically correct.

Aspartame IS digested by the human body. It breaks down in to a number of chemicals (including formaldehyde) that the body is happy to digest.

(Formaldehyde is a normal metabolite that is dealt with by the body. You will have formaldehyde in your body as part of the digestion of fruit.)

Aspartame is NOT stored in your body in fat. It is digested and excreted normally.

Aspartame is approved for human consumption by over 100 different food regulators, including the UKFSA, EFS, Health Canada and the FDA.